Well, this is an odd project:
Though the Bible is an ancient book, full of beautiful prose, timeless stories, and great truths, there has long been a barely spoken of dissatisfaction over the one element it sorely lacks: zombies. At Zombible, we hope to remedy the situation by carefully inserting lovingly crafted zombie-oriented text into the Bible, for the enjoyment and enlightenment of all.
It’s odd because when I read the Bible, I see a great big zombie story already. The central figure in the New Testament is a zombie, and the chief function of the book is to turn people into zombies. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to clean up the metaphors and make it a little more explicit.
No zombies? What about Jesus and Lazarus? Does it only count if they wander around chanting, “Brains”?
Is it the suppressed Gospel of Thomas in which Jesus performs the miracle of turning a few loaves and fishes into BRRRRAAAAIIINNNNZZZZZ!!!!!! ?
It’s not lacking zombies though, eg Matthew 27:52-53.
No zombies?! Half the people in the country have given up their brains to zombie Jesus!
I demand that there is made Sally, Dick, Jane and Zombies
See the zombies.
See the zombies eat brains.
Eat and eat and eat brains.
Run away.
Run and run and run away.
How can the ancients in Teh Babble not be zombies? You would think after the first hundred years or so of life that they would have looked like zombies if zombiism itself were not the very reason they were able to stick around for so long.
See Jane shoot her shotgun.
Shoot, Jane, shoot.
What it needs now is more vampires. Not enough vampires.
I think the absence of brains in the Bible would make it extremely difficult to sustain any kind of prolonged zombie narrative.
(Or is the absence of brains actually a characteristic of those who take the Bible literally?)
What it needs now is more vampires. Not enough vampires.
Wait a minute, I spoke too soon:
Both zombies and vampires in the good book.
And where exactly are the werewolves, beautiful banshees and elves?
Not to mention few Ents and a cast of Haflings?(so I won’t)
But really is there not a 1st amendment or summat supposed to give equal opportunity to personal insanity?…
Intolerance, hate crime and discrimination say’s I…
Me sad bunny!
Oh yeah?!? I dare you to find a werewolf in the bible!
Zombies. Check.
Vampires. Check.
Unicorns. Check.
Prehistoric Monsters. Check.
Ok. Now we need werewolves.
Depends on your working definition of zombie. If D&D has taught me anything, it’s that there are legions of undead and that classification is important, lest you end up with the kinds that the game designers create that are deliberately immune to normal undead-fighting techniques. (Not to mention the ‘deathless’ that 3.5 introduced…)
Aargh! Strangest brew beat me to it. ;-)
Why do people always say crap about how the bible is beautiful prose, timeless poetry, and great stories?? I’m sorry, but it would be vastly better if Keats had written the poetic parts, Shakespeare had done the dialog for the great stories, and Mark Twain the prose. But, of course, I’m being English-centric.
If god had wanted to do one really good trick – one miracle that would have nailed it all down – he could have made the bible somehow magically readable in every language without need for translation. And, he could have made it well-written; i.e.: beautiful prose, timeless poetry, and great stories.
See Matthew 27:
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and [e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Undead roaming the streets? Check. Sounds like a zombie infestation to me.
and me. Clearly we need more variety in our magical and non-existent creatures.
There are no cats in the bible either.
A rather puzzling lack considering they were domesticated in the middle east from the local subspecies of wildcat and are an important domesticated animal wherever grain is grown and stored.
“full of beautiful prose, timeless stories, and great truths”
Are we talking about the same book?
In honor of this thread, I just re-played the old Sam Kinison zombie jesus sketch from “breaking all the rules.” Aaaah, good stuff.
Shakespeare and zombies would rock. I especially like the part about how Romeo and Juliet manage to escape the party at house Capulet when the zombie outbreak happens in mid-party. Of course, what Romeo doesn’t know (and she doesn’t tell him until too late) is that she was bitten by Tybault. So it all ends badly.
Oh yeah?!? I dare you to find a werewolf in the bible!
Who knows?
No werewolves? What about the “hairy one” in 2 Kings 1:8
or the howling haunters of Isaiah 13:21
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her brains and whey.
Along came a zombie
and [mumblety-mumble, something that rhymes with zombie]
And frightened Miss Muffet away.
Okay, so it needs a little work.
Quick, everybody grab melee weapons. Shovels are great. Don’t forget rule #2 : Double tap.
Now I’m off to play Left4Dead 2.
Aren’t these the same people who are rewriting the Bible to make it “Conservative”?
Never mind, of course they are. Conservatives are the ones who want to eat our brains. Zombies, conservatives, it’s all the same thing.
Judas got a gun….
And yet it’s still less ridiculous than the Conservative Bible Project.
Hmm, I think I’m begining to get swayed that there might actually be werewolves in the bible. ;-)
Zombies. Check.
Vampires. Check.
Unicorns. Check.
Prehistoric Monsters. Check.
Werewolves. Check.
Sorcerers/magicians. Check.
Multiple Gods. Check.
Demons. Check.
Angels. Check.
Ghosts? Fairies? Spirits/sprites?
Are we missing anything else or is this the end of the “make the bible look even more ridiculous” list of fantasy characters available.
You know, someone could write a bible D&D game at this rate.
Richard Eis, would Satan count as Lawful Evil? And given the stories of Job and Abraham and Isaac, god would be Chaotic Evil.
¡Indeed!
X-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Man, I just come back from a bunch of “jamón serrano ibérico de bellota” with the corresponding alcoholic support and I don’t know why I ended here instead of the Onion. But that was just great. ¡An Epiphany!
The Bible as a Zombie story. There’s great potential here. Alas, the book is already written. But what about the spin-outs? And it’s copyright-free :-P
Thanks PZ, that’s a great idea: the Bible Zombie shootthemup. Or maybe better an RPG? I’ll get working on it ;-)
let’s see…
“Who looked just like Jambi…”
Best I could do on short notice.
But wait–if Miss Muffet was already eating brains, why would she be frightened by another zombie?
yep. Needs work.
The bible. The ultimate MMORPG. Based on actual almost facts. In development for over 2000 years (eat your heart out Duke Nukem)
Janine, you’re spot on!
Although the bronze-age storm god usually known as Yahve requires that his minions be Lawful Evil, he himself behaves very much as a Chaotic Evil deity.
Thus when, as a DM, I made the Christian religion and mythology appear in one of my campaign (a quest for an Isis devotee, to stop Christian hegemony in the Roman Empire), it was Neutral Evil due to this blend of Law and Chaos with Evil always dominating.
I’m still waiting for a movie about the last zombie on earth. I favor Keira Knightley for the lead.
OMIGOD ZOMBIES YES! This is the est thing that’s ever happened to me… since ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ anyway…
This would be far more impressive if it wasn’t essentially ripping off Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (an actual book if you haven’t heard of it before).
@ Richard Eis #30:
I think you missed out the giants (the godling-human half-breeds of Genesis).
@ Strangest brew #11:
Well, there was that burning talking bush …
What about the pygmies and dwarfs? ;-)
Tabby Lavalamp, that is why I did the Sally, dick, Jane and Zombies bit. But I did not want to be obvious about it.
#30
“You know, someone could write a bible D&D game at this rate.”
For SFM sake keep it down!
The religiotards are very suggestive and desperate…tis a dodgy combination!
They get an inkling that the bible would be in every teenagers room…or at least most…if they couched it in D&D terms…would be rather grim.
Imagine it…
All characters…
Demon attack…actions…d10 Die roll saving throw 8 and above one time…
1-8 damnation and relegation to zombie levels for 5 rounds…no weapons!
A die roll d20 -1 requires 19 or more thereafter!
-3 for blasphemous curse after 5 rounds!
Except cleric no penalty but +20 every die roll for righteousness!
It would be worse somehow methinks!
#41
Note
SFM was FSM but I schismed ;-)
Okay, ‘Tis Himself (@ #25), how about this?
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her brains and gore.
Along came a zombie
Who said, “Save some for me.”
Miss Muffet, engorged, said “No more!”
Hehe I can ust think of the humourous consequences:
Take the Zomveticus 18:22, Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with zombiekind: it is abomination.
And that, my friends, is why homosapiens cannot get married to this day in so many parts of the world
Gratuitous Humboldt-squid-attacking-rockhammer photo, just for fun.
Ron Sullivan
http://toad.faultline.org
Ron Sullivan really needs a better handle.
Zombies, Bah. The Bible has plenty of those already. You know what it really needs? Dinosaurs. No, not the ones put there by Satan to confuse paleontologists but live ones. Roman soldiers riding T-rexes on their way to arrest Christ. Elisha (2 Kings 2:23-25) sicking, not bears, but rad cool velocoraptors on people who made fun of him. Adam, Steve, Eve… and TRICEROTOPS!!
It’s fun to rewrite the bible. After all most of the stories are just skeletons. very few are fleshed out in any way in the form of character development, or plot. It’s easy to add to the story of Jonah, the virgin birth, the passion of Chirst, Eve and the snake, and hell it’s easy to make stuff up.
The Greek gods had better writers working for them.
Will Natalie Portman be in the film adaptatiopn?
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/08/delicious-brains.html
We struggle in vain to distinguish a Mass
From your typical Zombie behavior
As they guzzle down red by the bottle or glass
And delight in Filet of Our Savior.
Perhaps it’s a matter of what’s on the menu;
Your Catholic is more of a snacker,
But if you feel teeth on your shoulder, why, then you
Know zombies want more than a cracker.
When Jesus said “This is my blood that you drink,
And this is my body you eat”
Did something he knew of their tastes make him think
They were zombies, and lusting for meat?
Did the Catholic Church, from the time of Saint Peter,
Rejoice in the words that he said,
And at least once a week, become Zombie flesh-eater
And feast upon Jesus Undead?
I worry it’s some sort of slippery slope
Where they struggle ‘gainst gravity’s chains
And I wonder if Ratzinger got to be Pope
By eating the Cardinals’ brains.
Bravo, Zeno. Your version of Little Miss Muffet is a winner. There’ll be some extra brains in your food bowl tonight.
dammit.
adaptation
‘Tis, you are countenancing the rhyming of “zombie” with “for me”?
ew!
Mmm, brains!
Well, let’s think of some other rhymes for zombie:
Abercrombie
Fonzie
bomb me
Mommy
OT: The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned a Generation of American Boys Into Homosexuals
http://christwire.org/2009/10/the-golden-girls-how-one-tv-show-turned-a-generation-of-american-boys-into-homosexuals/?xid=PTNiGoog
Christwire, the press service proudly read by all Landover Baptist parishioners.
From J Dubb’s link:
Priceless.
I usually am one to cringe at TEH STOOPID, but this, I confess, has me laughing out loud.
@sqlrob:
Ah, now it all makes sense.
Tis:
Tis: again
“…and a goat all fiery.”
Goat! Goat! burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Conservapedia has a project to rewrite the bible, which is probably not that different. One bible is for scary rotting people that eat brains, and the other is for scary people with rotting brains. I think every group should rewrite the inerrant word of god to fit their own preconceived ideals. It would be a lot cleaner than just ignoring those parts that conflict. Re-writing the bible is fun.
From a recently discovered revised edition of the 19th century work Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of Zombies, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
There, Paley eat your heart out, or brains in this case.
2 Kings 19:35, KJV: “And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.”
What’s the bible missing?
MUMMIES!!!
Al that mucking about in Egypt, and not a single person gets attacked by a mummy! I can envision a scene from an Abbott(!) and Costello movie, only with, say, Paul and Barnabas. Paul would be Bud.
And while we’re at it, the bible is also missing any character like Freddy Kruegar or Jason. Sure, people rise from the dead, but do they rise from the dead and kill people? Especially nubile, semi-nude teen-aged girls?
*chuckle*
Would have been interesting to watch the residents and soldiers in Jerusalem try to keep the zombie saints from marching in. No shotguns, no armored cars, sorry guys.
The boy stood on the burning goat
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that should have lit the boat
Was lost, found beast instead.
Genesis 49:27 (New International Version)
27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
in the morning he devours the prey,
in the evening he divides the plunder.”
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her brains and whey.
When along came a zombie
Which could not her mom be,
So she ate that, too.
I described Jesus as a zombie in a foray to “Science and the Sacred”, and was solemnly told that of course Jesus wasn’t a zombie when he was resurrected, because he had a new body that could travel instantaneously, be in several places at once, etc. – so I guess Jesus was Superzombie!.
Along came of zombie,
1. In a Tux from Abercrombie,
2. With Dentures it stole from Jamby,
3. Who recently dined at Applebee(s),
4. Who thought Muffet was easy,
5. Who was driving a HumVee,
Go Ahead, take your pick.
Zeno@ 46: Ron Sullivan really needs a better handle.
Ron Sullivan has a couple of big ol handles already, thanks. Also a Pittsburgh tumor, thunder thighs, and an ass she hasn’t yet managed to laugh off despite being a faithful reader of Cuttlefish. She owes it all to a nefarious cabal involving her husband Joe (aka Beelzebubba, The Lord of the Pies), Evan Walker, Michael Collins, assorted local brewers, and former denizens of the dwindling Usenet group rec.food.cooking.
She has, however, eaten brains only once, in an omelet with truffles.
Grow fat along with me.
The pear-shaped cat makes three…
O Burning Goat, O Burning Goat,
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen
Or is it “mich”? Damn.
Ain’t copping to this one.
Wossname
Ezequiel 39:17
Assemble yourselves, and come ; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Hit Enter too soon. Should have been “eat
fleshbrains, and drink blood.”Zombies and vampires together in one Biblical text.
Aw shit. Horrible Catholic-school flashbacks now! See what you’ve done?
Sonz ZUV God
Hear his holy word,
Gather ’round
Da TAble of da lord,
EAT hiz BODy, drink hiz BLOOD,
An we’ll sing a song guv love.
Hallelu-hallelu-hallelu-hallelu-u-ya!
The aftermath of Vatican 2 was some of the awfullest church music ever, and I say that as a veteran of those gawdawful sticky English-language hymns of the 1940s and ’50s.
Zombie isn’t far off from rhyming with Gumby.
Knockgoats:
Well, actually a quantum zombie. Zombiechrist exists as a superposition of himself spatially distributed. His hunger for brains occasionally collapses his wave function – and he FEEDS!!!!
(In hindsight I should’ve bolded “arose” to make the point clear, but anyway.)
I’ve heard that snake was a mistranslation for dragon. Any of the biblical scholars here want to weigh in on that?
“How might the Gospels have been different if Jesus had come to Earth not to save mankind from sin, but from zombies?”
Oh, I thought it was a bible for zombies. Dang.
Well, they’re too interested in “braaaaiiins!” anyway.
Google image search for zombie jesus. I like this successory one:
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
Eating her brains and gore.
A zombie in the night
Goats! Goat! Burning Bright!
Miss Muffet was sitting no more.
You guys have just supported the accuracy of Biblical history. Did you know that?
You look at the so-called “conflicting” stories of Jesus’ resurrection, and the answer to this mystery is within this very thread.
In Luke, three women find two angels in the tomb. In Mark, three women find one angel. In Matthew, two women find one angel. In John, it’s just Mary and no angels. Don’t you see? Zombie Jesus is eating them!
These aren’t Gospels, they’re harrowing tales of survival. Together they form the tale of Mary Magdalene’s escape from the Zombie Jesus Resurrection Massacre.
Immediately reminded me of: http://somethinkfun.blogspot.com/2009/10/venn-like-state-of-mind-part-4.html
What are you talking about? The Bible is FULL fo zombie references!!!! For example:
Exodus 29:16“and you shall kill the ram, and you shall take its brainz and sprinkle [it] all around on the altar.
Exodus 29:20“Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its brainz and put [it] on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the brainz all around on the altar.
Exodus 29:21 “And you shall take some of the brainz that is on the altar, and some of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] on Aaron and on his garments, on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him; and he and his garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
Leviticus 15:25. ‘ If a woman has a discharge of brainz for many days, other than at the time of her [customary] impurity, or if it runs beyond her [usual time of] impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her [customary] impurity. She [shall be] unclean.
Leviticus 16:14 “He shall take some of the brainz of the bull and sprinkle [it] with his finger on the mercy seat on the east [side;] and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the brainz with his finger seven times.
Numbers 19:5 ‘Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight: its hide, its flesh, its brainz, and its offal shall be burned.
Numbers 23:24 Look, a people rises like a lioness, And lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the brainz of the slain.”
I see people have confused Animate Dead with Raise Dead. The one gives the corpse a semblance of life, the latter returns a person fully to life with full functionality. Don’t know about you, but I just don’t see God as being limited to 9th level Cleric, or a Wis of 15.
You see them everywhere, dull eyes reflecting moribund intellects, moaning: “Soooouls, Immortal Soooouls.” Remember, souls aren’t just for breakfast anymore.
The Lord is my zombie slayer; I shall not want brains.
He taketh me through green pastures free of lumbering corpses.
He leadeth me beside the still waters with other survivors.
He purify my wounds with antidote when I am attacked and bitten.
He leadeth me in the paths that avoid the outbreak for his sake and mine.
Yea, though I flee through the valley of the shadow of doom, I will fear no zombies, for thou art close behind.
Thy shotgun and thy chainsaw they comfort me.
Thou preparest an escape route for me in the presence of the shambling hordes. Thou rescueth me from the invasion; thine motorbike runneth over zombies.
Surely thou shall slaughter without mercy zombies who terrorize me all the days of my life, and I will dwell safe in the decked-out home base of the Lord for the remainder of the zombie uprising.
“This would be far more impressive if it wasn’t essentially ripping off Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (an actual book if you haven’t heard of it before).”
For what it’s worth, my first Bible/zombie short story “The Hunger of Lazarus” was published in 2000, long before PP&Z. I’d been wanting to do something like Zombible for years, but just recently got around to it.
a what, now?
There’s a Philadelphia chromosome, but that causes leukemia.
What’s all this talk about zombies eating brains? Have you never played Resident Evil? What the bible needs is a virus capable of turning people into mindless beings who eats and infects other and kill things. I know that the bible turns people into mindless killing machine that infect other folks but it’d be funnerer if it were a virus!
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I was right pissed when I first heard about this story. Posting surveys online, and forcing women to answer personal questions? Outrageous!
Having read over the bill, though, I can see that I overreacted. While individual survey forms will be submitted via an online form, I can’t see any portion of the bill that says individual surveys will be publicly available. The only public release seems to be aggregate data via an annual report. And while there are a tonne of silly options under “why are you having an abortion?”, there’s also a “the patient refused to answer” option. I imagine that’ll get used a lot.
There are still reasons to oppose this bill. Doctors are forced to fill out this form for every woman who consults with them about abortion. Most of the survey questions are just there to remind doctors of their duties under law. It’s a big waste of their resources, at a time when the US government is looking for ways to cut health care costs.
The survey reads like it was designed by a politician, not a bio-statistician. As edinblack pointed out in #17, there are waaaay too many questions asking about a woman’s relationship status, and none asking about contraception. If their goal is collecting information about abortion, why didn’t they consult an expert?
Even that bit at the end about unconstitutionality isn’t as bad as I thought. If those lines appeared only on that specific bill, I’d be right pissed. They smell like boilerplate, though, and probably appear on every bit of legislation that flows through OK. That demotes it from “evil fine print” to “stupid fine print”.
HJ Hornbeck
D’oh, wrong thread! That’s what I get for jumping between computers….
HJ Hornbeck
Given the poor judgement often displayed by the God of the bible I would argue a 15 Wis is a bit generous.
Aaaaand just like ninjas, pirates, and bacon, geeks have managed to completely and utterly managed to run zombies (back) into the ground. Would a little creativity kill people?
What are you babbling about, Zhu? All of those things are excellent, and remain such.
Also, arguing about others’ creativity is generally a sign of pretentiousness that isn’t backed up by ability.
Obviously the folks at Zombible are conflicted. They see the Bible as some sort of inclusive document, which it is not, even to most Christians, Jews and Muslims. Even for them, it is a sacred story book offering insights into how to live an appropriate life, but not the only book. Of course their “Bibles” differ significantly.
The Christian Bible is seen as the inerrant word of god by those who reject scientific knowledge and a few who try to bend same into a grotesque misrepresentation of the facts; e.g., creationists, creation scientists, intelligent designists.
Oh, wait! I get it. The Zombiblists are saying that creationists have missed something. Got it. Thanks.
Aratina Cage @ 89;
Your post has made it all so blindingly clear.
God is Ash from the Evil Dead movies! And so, by extension, the corporeal manifestation of god is Bruce Campbell. (This still leaves us with the infinite regression problem though. Ash was portrayed by Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell’s movie career was created by the great and terrible Sam Raimi, but who or what created the great and terrible Sam Raimi?)
From infamous ‘video nasty’ (in the eyes of humourless fundie morons) to the very incarnation of the zombie-eviscerating saviour. That is quite the career path.
All hail Ash! Weilder of the holy boomstick! He of the chainsaw arm! Vanquisher of the undead legions! Well spring of bad puns and terribly cheesy dialogue!
Some claim that the Bible needs Zombies
with a taste for brains their main sin.
But in reading the book
(If you take a close look)
you can see the undead writ therein.
Some offered ideas that included
a Werewolf, a Mummy or Ent,
but the Bible features
more fantasy creatures
and not just the One heaven sent.
And yet there is something quite lacking
‘spite chills I get reading of hell.
Hey, I know what it needs,
And it helps not impedes,
The book simply needs more cow bell!
Ghosts: 1 Samuel 28 (and also a witch!)(no newts, though)
Spirits: 1 Samuel 16 (which might be a demon?), among others, including the above.
Fairies: Define “fairy”. The “hairy ones” in Isaiah 13:21 might be just goats — or satyrs, or donkey-centaurs (as translated in the LXX) … or maybe some sort of Middle-Eastern brownie.
98, yeah, I’m pretentious because I don’t think just flogging a meme til it bleeds is always the height of fun. I want a little more from people than “let’s just add zombies, and it will always automatically be teh awesomez!!!”. Sorry you consider that babbling. Bet you’re one of those people who wears black shirts with white writing, yeah?
What teh fuck do you have against zombies?
Gregory Greenwood, I think you are right. I was thinking of Ash/Bruce Campbell.
Alfred Hitchcock, of course.
Aratina
Nothing at all. I am bored of the “anything+zombie=great” trend, and that’s it. It depresses me slightly that thousands of good writers can’t get published but any one-note joke book about zombies or ninjas can flood every major bookstore in America, or the way geeks reduce humor down to “I’ll mention a meme or pop culture icon, and you all laugh on cue”.
Depressing as it may be, it’s not like this is the first time a meme or a pop culture icon has been picked up and spread like wildfire amongst the populace. It’s an important part of building narratives and cultural imagery.
That doesn’t make it funny or interesting or mean it’s not somewhat obnoxious.
It is actually rather interesting. Zombies have been a popular theme throughout history. We can actually understand how some society works by analyzing it. As a person interested in ethnography, I would like to know why people propagate the whole zombie meme so much.
It may be related to all that anxiety over the issues of free-will. It’s not as though that’s a new obsession either. People will always have felt or suspected that they weren’t entirely in charge of what their bodies got up to. It has even been used as a convenient(?) criminal defence – and a way to falsely(?) accuse or implicate others in events without them having much possibility of defending themselves (as with charges of witchcraft).
Everything you’re saying makes sense to me. It’s not like I’m saying that nobody should ever discuss zombies or it’s an inherently boring concept or anything like that….Just that people (especially online) have sort of been beating zombie memes to death. The “let’s add zombies to an old book” one has worn out its welcome real quick.