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God’s Warriors
By Alan Hood | August 25, 2007
Written By Tayler age 14
Definition: contemporary lifestyle and items that are well known and generally accepted, cultural patterns that are widespread within a population; also called pop culture
When I look at the definition of pop culture, the words that stick out to me are “well known.”
The article “Teen Christians Campaign against pop culture” is all about teenagers and young adults going to Christian rallies to get away from pop culture and be themselves. From 2006 to 2007, a total of 127,830 people attended the 34 Acquire the Fire rallies, and 71,414 people attended the three BattleCry events held in San Francisco, California; Detroit, Michigan; and Bristow, Virginia, according to Teen Mania. That seems pretty “well known” to me. And if it is well known wouldn’t that mean it is becoming pop culture. If that many people are going to these rallies, then more are going to want to go with their friends and family. So then it is going to become more popular then anything else.
“We don’t have to be branded by the culture, we are branded by God, be who God created you to be.” Jared Hutchins said.
Maybe God made some people to follow what ever is popular at the time. Maybe that is just how people are. But I do not believe that you should be anything that someone made you to be, you should be someone you want to be. For something to get popular in the first place, it would have to be liked by more than one person. Would everyone that also liked it be considered as followers because maybe they have the same taste or they like the same things. But they didn’t like it first. You can never tell if someone truly likes something or they just like, to be popular. Maybe all the people that are into what is popular right at that time truly do like it. You don’t know if they liked it before it became popular, or just like because other people like it.
You don’t have to be Christian to go against pop culture. Many people dislike being normal, they like to be different. Take gothic or emo people for example, some one started wearing all black because they didn’t want to be like everyone else, but look at how many people are gothic and emo now. It is not pop culture but it is popular. Not everyone followed it, but everyone knows what it is.
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