Anti-resurrection

An interesting thought that I have not typed until now: vampirism is an anti-resurrection. In the Christian idea of resurrection souls go to heaven and bodies rot in the ground. With vampires, the soul is trapped or absent (my best guess, anyway) and it is the body that continues its animation (anima- soul, spirit, breath in Latin). Whereas the Christian ideal is to proceed to heaven, and the Roman Catholic teaching that souls in heaven pray for those on earth, vampires instead prey on those on earth, cursing them to a hellish fate rather than blessing them on their own way to heaven. To be in heaven is communion with God, the vampire is repelled by Godliness. God rocks, vampires suck. Nothing too ground breaking, but I found it interesting that since vampirism seems to be the exact opposite of what people would hope for after death, it must be what is most dreaded, and perhaps impurely, guiltily appealing: to be driven by desire and the primal rather than a higher and harder calling. It seems a consensus in a lot of Vampire literature, however, that it is indeed no way to live, die, or to be resurrected.