Hey now, there's nothing wrong with being Christian and hipster, insofar that there's nothing wrong with being Christian, and the problem just comes from the hipster aspect. Even as much too that modern trends have seen the resurgence of a lot of "holistic" Christianity and more liberal interpretations of the religious experience, reaching back as far as the 60's. It's as much that Unitarianism has seized a heavy presence, that there's a resurgent interest in Gnosticism, and that awareness of the Quakers has become a thing besides individual, let me barf out this phrase: do-it-yourself churches, having popped up all over the place.
Though a big part of that observation on my part is knowing a fella in my work neighborhood who is one of those sorts of almost-hipster Christians, in being an earnestly good dude, and prescribing pretty heavily to modern, liberalized interpretations of the work. Plus he's really into Kierkegaard so I can't hate him. You're alright, Christian existentialists.
The point that I was seizing at there though, is that the sort of almost subcultured trend of some forms of Christianity now lends them perfectly to earnest hipster appreciation -- that, or it serves itself strongly as an aspect of the antithesis, bringing conservative values to otherwise non-conservative movements. Either way, it depends on the flavor of Christianity being bought.
Haha, well yes, all of this exactly. Nothing wrong with being Christian, but coupling it sincerely or insincerely with hipsterdom seems fittingly antithetical, as it were, and this disturbs me because such a union within the antithesis crystallizes all that is unholy about reactionary religion and reactionary postmodernism at the same time.
Though a big part of that observation on my part is knowing a fella in my work neighborhood who is one of those sorts of almost-hipster Christians, in being an earnestly good dude, and prescribing pretty heavily to modern, liberalized interpretations of the work. Plus he's really into Kierkegaard so I can't hate him. You're alright, Christian existentialists.
The point that I was seizing at there though, is that the sort of almost subcultured trend of some forms of Christianity now lends them perfectly to earnest hipster appreciation -- that, or it serves itself strongly as an aspect of the antithesis, bringing conservative values to otherwise non-conservative movements. Either way, it depends on the flavor of Christianity being bought.
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