RE: Hipster Christians
March 9, 2013 at 5:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 5:09 am by Justtristo.)
(March 8, 2013 at 10:09 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: 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.
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