{"id":1814,"date":"2013-08-19T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/hipster-cool-humor-only-goes-so-far.html"},"modified":"2013-08-19T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:14:00","slug":"hipster-cool-humor-only-goes-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/hipster-cool-humor-only-goes-so-far.html","title":{"rendered":"Hipster cool humor only goes so far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There is a trend in some corners of the Catholic Blogosphere to more or less embrace almost every aspect of the hedonist, post-Christian, pagan inspired debauchery, individualism and flip-the-bird disregard for anything traditional as long as I think it\u2019s so cool and it makes me laugh. \u00a0Part of this, I suspect, is due to the disproportionately large numbers of Blogger Catholics who proudly wear the mantle of \u2018geek outsider non-conformist.\u2019 \u00a0As I said here<\/a>, that sort of self identification may well inform the way one does adulthood just the same.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, there is, in some places, a clear sympathy for such progressive, post-Christian advocates of gay sex, gay marriage, abortion rights, embryonic stem cell research, atheism, Leftist anti-Christianism, psuedo-Socialism, and just about anything else that is abhorrent to traditional Christian values, or traditional values in general. \u00a0As I said here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be so bad if some could find the same humor among more conservative entertainers, but usually in these circles, despite claims of being conservative Catholics, conservatives today are dismissed altogether. \u00a0Rush Limbaugh? \u00a0Forget it. \u00a0Mike Huckabee? \u00a0Ha! \u00a0We won\u2019t even get into what few Conservative entertainers there are. \u00a0Even if they do something like oppose abortion, often it is dismissed because they are only \u2018anti-abortion\u2019, not pro-life (following the Church\u2019s changing positions on just war and capital punishment), and probably don\u2019t care about murdered babies anyway. \u00a0Nope, it\u2019s the cool hipster types because, well, they\u2019re so funny, so witty, so darn funny. \u00a0That\u2019s what matters. \u00a0And funny is important, just like this picture shows:<\/p>\n

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You see? \u00a0Pope John Paul II demonstrates his awesomeness and why he\u2019s so blasted cool by making goggle eyes at the camera. \u00a0Yes, I think it\u2019s cool. \u00a0I think it\u2019s funny and fun. \u00a0I love the picture. \u00a0I think some of these hipster cool progressives can be funny. \u00a0I also think some more conservative ones can be funny, or at least kind and witty. \u00a0But I never forget what they advocate, and I\u2019ll never dismiss it just because it happens to tickle my funny bone, or make me laugh, or because, let\u2019s face it, I personally enjoy being entertained by them so am happy to dismiss advocacy of hellish morality because I blow beer out my nose laughing. \u00a0And I certainly won\u2019t smack down one and celebrate another just because one tickles my funny bone. \u00a0For it takes more than good humor to overcome Hell. \u00a0As another picture I\u2019ve never forgotten, which brings to mind the above picture of Blessed John Paul II, always reinforces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From the collection by Emmanuel D\u2019Astier, Time Life Books, 1977<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Yep, that\u2019s old Uncle Joe Stalin. \u00a0You know, one of history\u2019s most brutal mass murderers. \u00a0And lest you think that\u2019s some fluke picture he did just to soften his image, here\u2019s another one of him being silly with his daughter:<\/p>\n

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You see? \u00a0A real laugh-a-minute family man. Humor is good. \u00a0Being fun and frivolous is OK. \u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t taketh away the sins of the world. \u00a0I\u2019m sorry, but if you are going to spew righteous indignation at conservative and traditionalist entertainers, hosts and others because of advocating our military actions in the Middle East, Iran, enhanced interrogation, Capitalism or whatever, then you can\u2019t \u2013 and I mean Can Not \u2013 turn around and dismiss entertainers and others on the left who actively promote those sins that cry out to God for Vengeance<\/a>. because culture says they are the hipster cool types worthy of love and adoration. \u00a0Not even in the name of \u2018being harder on my own team.\u2019 \u00a0One must condemn, and treat equally, those from both sides. To do otherwise is to be nothing other making religion around myself based on my whims and fancies. \u00a0Just pointing that I\u2019m following this fellow cuz he\u2019s awesome, even though he flings his fingers at the morals of God, is not exactly building a credible case for Catholic consistency.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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