Opinion of "hipster Christianity"

[they don't love you like i love you]

This summarizes it pretty well and mentions two churches I've been to: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/hip_new_churches.html

Very Positive obviously.

[King]

I think everyone on this forum should shave their head and become humanists.

I did not feel like creating a new topic for this sentence.  Please discuss.

[The Mikado]

The new version of the "barefoot hippie clergyman with acoustic guitar playing Dylan-inspired sing-along hymns" church of yesteryear.  Why do people insist on merging in their religion and their hobbies into one thing?  This reminds me of the thread on furry Christianity from about a year back from SA.  People were (rightly) wondering what these people's obsession with anthropomorphic animals had to do with God.



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[King]

Excellent, Mikado. We should be expecting a new post from the great kobiobodog any day now.

[they don't love you like i love you]

The new version of the "barefoot hippie clergyman with acoustic guitar playing Dylan-inspired sing-along hymns" church of yesteryear.  Why do people insist on merging in their religion and their hobbies into one thing?

Because sitting and pews and mindlessly reciting things led by people in robes listening to organ music and hymns is boring?

It was like I was telling jmfcst about Christian hardcore, if you're Christian and like hardcore, what's wrong with combining the two? I'd rather listen to this than this.

[Dr. Cynic]

There's nothing hip about Christianity in my opinion. But then, what would you expect from an avowed atheist?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Positive. Just positive, because one of my criteria for churches to go to is how easily I can see mediaeval dirges being sung in them by candlelight, but still positive becasue the matters of the heart are in good order.

[Username MechaRFK]

There's nothing hip about Christianity in my opinion. But then, what would you expect from an avowed atheist?

[RIP Robert H Bork]

Very negative.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Very negative.

Uh, why? You're saying that you're a Christian and yet have a "very negative" opinion of the way some people celebrate the same God and Jesus Christ, just because you disagree with their worship style or whatever and for rather superficial reasons? You do realize this is not too different from my attitude toward Catholicism that you and so many others (rightly) criticized me for for so long?

[dead0man]

It seems like a temporary solution.....like something you won't be going to in 5 years.  And I'm not talking to you as an individual, I'm talking about everyone that affiliates themselves with something called "hipster Christianity".

[they don't love you like i love you]

It seems like a temporary solution.....like something you won't be going to in 5 years.  And I'm not talking to you as an individual, I'm talking about everyone that affiliates themselves with something called "hipster Christianity".

Well the article is from 2004. Those places are still around.

[John Dibble]

It seems like a temporary solution.....like something you won't be going to in 5 years.  And I'm not talking to you as an individual, I'm talking about everyone that affiliates themselves with something called "hipster Christianity".

Well the article is from 2004. Those places are still around.

I don't think he's talking about the places, but rather that the people who go to them will move on in that time frame one way or another for the most part.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

It was like I was telling jmfcst about Christian hardcore, if you're Christian and like hardcore, what's wrong with combining the two? I'd rather listen to this than this.

hold on there, Spanky, I simply said I couldn't discern a word of it, and because of that fact it is impossible for me to say anything about it other than, "No comprende...What does he say?!"

but, that's ok, I'm perfectly happy not understanding it

[bullmoose88]

It was like I was telling jmfcst about Christian hardcore, if you're Christian and like hardcore, what's wrong with combining the two? I'd rather listen to this than this.

hold on there, Spanky, I simply said I couldn't discern a word of it, and because of that fact it is impossible for me to say anything about it other than, "No comprende...What does he say?!"

but, that's ok, I'm perfectly happy not understanding it

Umm Yeah...Give me the old fashioned "boring" stuff over that musical diarrhea any day.  What the hell was that crap BRTD posted.

[opebo]

Very negative.

My opinion also, though no doubt for somewhat different reasons.

[they don't love you like i love you]

It was like I was telling jmfcst about Christian hardcore, if you're Christian and like hardcore, what's wrong with combining the two? I'd rather listen to this than this.

hold on there, Spanky, I simply said I couldn't discern a word of it, and because of that fact it is impossible for me to say anything about it other than, "No comprende...What does he say?!"

What he says, as I have posted before:

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Now note that if you look at the lyrics while listening to it, you actually CAN make what he's saying.

[they don't love you like i love you]

jmfcst, just wondering, do you ever see someone at your church with any of the following:

-plugs
-many visible tattoos
-piercings anywhere beside the ear
-unnatural hair color
-wearing a hoodie

[greenforest32]

There's nothing hip about Christianity in my opinion. But then, what would you expect from an avowed atheist?

[fezzyfestoon]

hipster=horrible

[Filuwaúrdjan]

hipster=horrible

Stop agreeing with me. I order you to stop agreeing with me.

[opebo]

jmfcst, just wondering, do you ever see someone at your church with any of the following:

-plugs
-many visible tattoos
-piercings anywhere beside the ear
-unnatural hair color
-wearing a hoodie

That's a hipster nowadays?

I must be out of date - I thought I was a 'hipster' in the late 1980s and the 1990s just because I wore second hand clothes and battered Converse (and admittedly usually cut mine own hair)..  I thought 'plugs', peircings, and tattoos were from some other more repulsive subcultures.

I wouldn't have dreamed of getting a tattoo or peircing anymore than I would have gone shopping in the Mall!

[they don't love you like i love you]

I was thinking more of counter-culture types in general, but hipsters today definitely have tattoos and many have hair dyed unnatural colors (granted we're talking just like a streak or highlights usually) and maybe like a lip ring or tongue piercing (do your hookers ever have those? I think you'd like getting a blowjob from one who does.) The plugs and hoodies aren't a hipster thing but hardcore kids who live in the same areas and often go to the same places, like me (of course I don't have plugs.) This guy is a stereotype of the type of look I'm thinking of:



These types as well aren't "hipsters" per se but once again tend to live in the same areas and get associated with a lot of the same type of stuff:



When people think of PBR as a "hipster beer", they tend to be thinking more of this type instead.

Or to put it more simply, it's easier to simply use "hipster" as a shorthand for anything big in an underground youth subculture than explain the nuances and differences of all the subcultures involved hence the media ends up doing this rather frequently.

[afleitch]

You're 27. If you're still doing the same thing at 37 then that will be very sad indeed.

[All Along The Watchtower]

"Hipster" anything is embarrassing.