Are you a Christian Hipster?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

http://hipsterchristianity.com/quiz.php

Your Christian Hipster Quotient:
61 / 120
Low CHQ. You probably belong to the purpose-driven, seeker-sensitive, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Christian establishment, even though you are open to some of the "rethinking Christianity" stuff. You seem to like edginess in some measure but become uneasy when your idea of Christian orthodoxy is challenged by some renegade young visionary who claims the virgin birth isn't necessary.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=133280.0

But I retook it and got 78 / 120.

High CHQ. You are a pretty progressive, stylish, hipster-leaning Christian, even while you could easily feel at home in a decidedly un-hip non-denominational church. You are conservative on some issues and liberal on others, and sometimes you grow weary of trendy "alt-Christianity." But make no mistake: You are a Christian hipster to at least some degree.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

53 / 120

Low CHQ.

[Napoleon]

I am not a Christian bit I took the test anyway ans scored a 70. Same description as BRTD.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm only on the first question and I'd look at least somewhat askance at anybody who'd answer anything other than Imitatio Christi for any reason other than being unfamiliar with it.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm only on the first question and I'd look at least somewhat askance at anybody who'd answer anything other than Imitatio Christi for any reason other than being unfamiliar with it. I do not expect my score on this to be especially high.

EDIT: Now I'm on the fifth question and the idea of Ozu as a Christian filmmaker is hilarious. Late Spring is one of the most thoroughgoingly Buddhist texts of the twentieth century. That was still the answer I chose, because of the other directors namedropped in it.

EDIT: That's not how you spell Mark Rothko's name.

EDIT: Okay, I guess I'm liveblogging this.

Is question 9 talking about the David Cronenberg Crash or the one that beat Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture? The actual answer to this question is either Umberto D. or the Kara no Kyoukai movies, but those aren't among the options listed so I went with A Serious Man. That might drive up my score a bit, mightn't it?

Every answer to question 11 other than the last one is something that tempts me to be Catholic.

Question 13 is impossible to cogently answer considering how pessimistic I am about the future of American Christianity. It really depends on what one means by 'best'. Bell is the least objectionable of these people theologically and one of the two decent ones politically along with McManus, so I'm going with him, but the 'real' answer is probably Driscoll, and that's downright horrifying.

'Vaguely outmoded notions of modesty' describes a lot of my personality, actually.

I have no idea where I got the shirt I'm wearing, but I'm pretty sure the cardigan is from an L.L. Bean catalog.

Jesus would drink PBR, but on the level that steel workers from northeastern Ohio drink it, not the level that hipsters do. I'm reasonably certain the quiz will misinterpret this, so I'm answering Chimay Red.

'Pro-life' has to encompass at least some elements of all of those options and more or it's meaningless pablum.

Ugh. All of those translations are horrible for devotional purposes. At least the NRSV is a respectable academic Bible. For devotional purposes I use a King James or my late grandparents' copy of a flash-in-the-pan Catholic translation from the sixties.

I've only heard of the first two options for question 29, and Sufjan Stevens ranges from listenable to very good. He wrote a song about Flannery O'Connor once. This is going to drive up my score, isn't it?

Preterist, but I hope that the third option is also the case.

[Napoleon]

I'm only on the first question and I'd look at least somewhat askance at anybody who'd answer anything other than Imitatio Christi for any reason other than being unfamiliar with it.

that was my answer

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I should ask a friend of mine about those books, since I have a feeling she might've read them and I'm thinking should write something along those lines. She wrote something on her blog after her miscarriage that a lot of people were posting on Facebook about how they were moved to tears by it including the family members I sent it to. PM me if you're interested.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How the hipster profanity did I get a higher score than BRTD?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'M A HIGH-CHURCH MAINLINE PROTESTANT WHO PRAYS THE ROSARY.

BRTD GOES TO CHURCH AT SOME SORT OF WAREHOUSE OR SOMETHING.

WHAT.

[tmthforu94]

I consider myself the opposite of this "hip Christian" stuff that other young folks are getting into, so my score isn't surprising...

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[minionofmidas]

Question 1 I don't know these books
Question 3 none of these options apply
Question 6 Who is this person
Question 9 There are far better movies than these but anyways me and Jesus share no language
Question 11 Several reasons but the big one is "they're Christian", actually
Question 15 my build. The things are tightest where I need pants roomiest, in the thigh and knees
Question 18 Jesus drank wine, moron
Question 20 Uh, I'd think an actual majority of people worldwide are above 3-4 and below innumerable... without having any interest in either baseball or fantasy football
Question 26 I don't smoke much at all but don't consider it "gross"
Question 29 I've only heard of one of these musicians, and I have listened to quite a bit of Christian music

Then I got 60 points and a description that I don't think included a single not-entirely-untrue statement.

[DC Al Fine]

I was a "Laggard", not at all surprising given that I'm a big C Calvinist.

[danny]

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I tried answering this as best as I can, but some of these clearly aren't meant for a non Christian.

[opebo]

How the fuck did I get a higher score than BRTD?

Because you are much weirder than BRTD.

[afleitch]

Looking at the questions, this quiz is going to be all very quaint in a few years time

[John Dibble]

I stopped trying to complete it at question 3. Options for non-believers are not present, so I will assume that the Christian hipster who wrote this quiz is bigoted against atheists and that my score is zero since I'm neither a Christian nor a hipster.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How the fuck did I get a higher score than BRTD?

Because you are much weirder than BRTD.

The question isn't whether or not I'm weirder; it's whether or not I'm more of a hipster.

[opebo]

How the fuck did I get a higher score than BRTD?

Because you are much weirder than BRTD.

The question isn't whether or not I'm weirder; it's whether or not I'm more of a hipster.

I know but for the typical drone weird is roughly equivalent to 'hipster' I guess.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

How the fuck did I get a higher score than BRTD?

Because you are much weirder than BRTD.

The question isn't whether or not I'm weirder; it's whether or not I'm more of a hipster.

I know but for the typical drone weird is roughly equivalent to 'hipster' I guess.

I still don't think that explains this particular result.

[angus]

I stopped trying to complete it at question 3.

Same here.  Way over my head. 

I know I don't know what a hipster is.  Some of the newspeak I look up on urban dictionary, like MILF, but I've never seen the term hipster applied to anything interesting enough to motivate me to look it up.  As for the term Christian, I thought I had a vague idea what that means, but by the time I was at number three I was beginning to understand that I'm pretty unfamiliar with that as well. 

I like that a few of the choices offered the honest answer:  I have no idea what this means, I do not know who that person is, or I have not read any of these books. 

[DC Al Fine]

I stopped trying to complete it at question 3. Options for non-believers are not present, so I will assume that the Christian hipster who wrote this quiz is bigoted against atheists and that my score is zero since I'm neither a Christian nor a hipster.

It's just a quiz aimed at a Christian audience. Calling it bigoted is like calling a quiz named "How Libertarian Are You?" bigoted against socialists because there wasn't an option like "The workers should overthrow the bourgeoisie and implement a dictatorship of the proletariat" with every question.

[opebo]

I know I don't know what a hipster is.

Hippie.  You and I aren't far apart in age but I was a hipster around '89-98...  what the kids are doing now is utterly played out.

[TJ in Oregon]

I ended up with a 39 (Laggard). Some of the questions I didn't know what any of the options were.

[John Dibble]

I stopped trying to complete it at question 3. Options for non-believers are not present, so I will assume that the Christian hipster who wrote this quiz is bigoted against atheists and that my score is zero since I'm neither a Christian nor a hipster.

It's just a quiz aimed at a Christian audience. Calling it bigoted is like calling a quiz named "How Libertarian Are You?" bigoted against socialists because there wasn't an option like "The workers should overthrow the bourgeoisie and implement a dictatorship of the proletariat" with every question.

Hint - I was being facetious.