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God care whom you call your friends? Does He care how you dress, how you
cut and dye your hair, if you paint your face white with black rings around
your eyes, if you get yourself tattooed and pierced all over or if you
cut your body?
Is God concerned if you feel like you don't fit in or if you experience the emotional pain of abuse from the immature craziness of a dysfunctional family?
Do you think that God cares one way or the other if you feed your mind
with songs of death, depression and suicide or with horror films and Internet
games glorifying evil? Does God care if you immerse yourself in the countercultures
of darkness?
The question is: Does God care about you at all?
The answer is: Yes, He does care on all counts—and cares more than you can fully know!
The fact is: God is about life and light—not death and darkness.
The fact is: God has a culture, a place where you can fit in, a place of physical and emotional safety among true friends of high character and good cheer. You don't need a dark counterculture to find acceptance and identity.
Defying definition
We don't have to tell you about those involved in gothic or emo music, dress or lifestyle. You probably know some, and besides, in "the ever-mutating virus we know as American pop culture," goth and emo mean different things to different people (Helen A.S. Popkin, "www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11720603" What Exactly Is 'Emo,' Anyway?").
But almost everyone would agree that real goths and emos are disaffected with today's culture.
Finding emo
In an article titled "Finding Emo," Lauren Sloat, contributing writer to Berkeley's The Daily Californian, describes "an aimless generation of people searching for meaning and definition" and asks, "What is so fundamentally absent from our culture that could make premeditations on pain and alienation so...attractive?"
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