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Jonah's Corrective
[Caleb Stegall 03/03 09:52 AM]This is why no “crunchy” ought to dismiss what I’ll call Jonah’s Corrective. Tradition as fad is an abomination! In the increasingly clamorous Christian marketplace rebellion is where you find it: in full-contact skateboard Bible study groups; in Christian punk, Goth and hip-hop CD's; in evangelical tattoo parlors; in sportswear brands like Extreme Christian Clothing and Fear God; in alt churches or ministries called Revolution, Scum of the Earth and Punk Girl; in a podcast called Xtreme Christianity …
The caldron for this rebellion can be grass roots or institutional: the publisher of the rebellion handbook, Thomas Nelson, is among the world's biggest producers of Bibles and inspirational books in English.
… For a demographic that is used to being marketed to as rebels, he added, the new rebellion "is really a new installment of the original rebellion." He continued: "It's hearkening back to a raw faith not encumbered by the American dream, enslavement to a career or having to have two kids and a two-car garage.A pox on Xtreme Christianity, Gelical Tattoos, Scum of the Earth Church, and Thomas Nelson. Still, there are people attracted to this stuff who ought to be salvaged for an authentic conservatism from the rubble of postmodernity. Maybe even the most cynical here can see this, at minimum, as an electoral demographic opportunity!
(Sorry for jumping the gun on the religion chapter, Rod.)
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