\u2026eventually become Catholic.<\/a>\u00a0 A fun little piece.<\/p>\nI have trouble tracking the multiple layers of postmodern irony as hipsters avoid the mainstream and refuse all identification with identifiers.\u00a0 After a while, I just want to shout, \u201cSay what you are for<\/em> and stop merely being against!\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m for Christ and his holy Church.\u00a0 Being that involves (sometimes) lining up with hipsters in their rejection of a\u00a0 number of trends in American culture.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t build a life on mere protest.\u00a0 Along with distrusting the wrong things you have to have the guts to trust the right things.\u00a0 Along\u00a0 with having the courage to resist the herd when it is trying to stampede you in the wrong direction, you have to have the courage to travel in the right one\u2013even when that direction is being walked by a lot of other people and you are *not* the lonely prophet, magnificent in isolation.\u00a0 You have to lose your pride and submit to instead being part of a vast communion of saints and slobs who show you up as the nothing special you actually are.\u00a0 You have to build, not just tear down, or you have nothing to give your kids.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the soundest building advice ever given:<\/p>\n\u201cEvery one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.\u201d (Matthew 7:24-27)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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