Hipster Christians

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Have any of you noticed a particular breed of Christians arisen in the past few years about ages 17 to 23 that are all "hipster" about their faith? A large number of my "friends" on Facebook I'd describe this way. They dress like hipsters and spend all their posts talking about their relationship with God in the most facepalm inducing hipsteresque ways. They also post a lot of Instagram filtered photos of their outdoor prayer meetings. I can't tell what their theology is. Sometimes it sounds fundamentalist but it's also has liberal elements.

[FallentoReason]

Your typical fundie here in Perth, Australia loves their coffee, have a Bible app on their phone that they use at Sunday mass, dress like a hipster & gather at cafés for Bible chats. They stress that their faith is a "lifestyle".

[paulpablo]

Your typical fundie here in Perth, Australia loves their coffee, have a Bible app on their phone that they use at Sunday mass, dress like a hipster & gather at cafés for Bible chats. They stress that their faith is a "lifestyle".

Just when you thought hipsters and christians couldn't get more annoying they join forces.

[Justtristo]

Have any of you noticed a particular breed of Christians arisen in the past few years about ages 17 to 23 that are all "hipster" about their faith? A large number of my "friends" on Facebook I'd describe this way. They dress like hipsters and spend all their posts talking about their relationship with God in the most facepalm inducing hipsteresque ways. They also post a lot of Instagram filtered photos of their outdoor prayer meetings. I can't tell what their theology is. Sometimes it sounds fundamentalist but it's also has liberal elements.

This is regarded in evangelical christian circles as contextualizing, the reasoning behind contextualizing is order to essentially get more people to confess Jesus Christ as lord and savior. They dont get understand that a lot of people in modern society are deeply offended by the traditional Christian message, namely it is anti-science, homophobic, sexist, bigoted etc.

I find it ironic that the things these hip Christians love were only brought about through godless, materialist science which is condemned thoroughly in the New Testament at least. When the revolution comes those people I hoped will be forced to the life of people before the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century and see how they like it.

[Nine]

Never met any hipster Christians. Probably a good thing it would be almost too hilarious.

[Gilgamesh]

What is a hipster?

[Nine]

What is a hipster?

2. Hipster

Definitions are too mainstream.
Hipster's can't be defined because then they'd fit in a category, and thus be too mainstream.

They don't even lift.

[Something completely different]

[jstrodel]

Sufjan Stevens is the coolest of the Christian hipsters. He is easily as cool any of the bands on Matador or Subpop.

It is true that some Christians are not as cool as their secular counterparts, but some are.

Moby is a Christian. Norma Jean are Christians. Kierkegaard was a Christian, I would say he is a major influence over the whole post-modern/hipster culture.

It is true that Jerry Falwell is not quite a cool (whatever that means) as some other people and "ReACT: God's news for teens" wasn't the coolest magazine in the world. But if you look at some of the greatest writers and poets and philosophers in history, many of them were Christians.

Just because Jerry Fallwell isn't cool doesn't mean that Christians are cool. Name any movement in history that has produced more writers, musicians, poets, philosophers, etc than Christianity (we are #1!).

[Esquilax]

Name any movement in history that has produced more writers, musicians, poets, philosophers, etc than Christianity (we are #1!).

Humanity.

Now what?