2006-10-10 17:28:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it doesnt make sense, I thought they were against that stuff.
2006-10-10 17:30:55 · update #1
god i was just wondering,
2006-10-10 17:35:04 · update #2
It is not blasphemous to wear a cross in any way. If anyone else has ever studied different cultures, crosses were a spiritual symbol long before the Christians came to be. Crosses can be found as far back as during the times of the Pharaohs of Egypt. The Christians "borrowed" the cross symbol just as they "borrowed" every other symbol and ritual from a pagan culture.
2006-10-10 17:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by VJ 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Gothic Crosses
2016-10-07 02:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All right, I am a goth, and I am not a Christian. Turns out- I'm in the minority! There are a lot of Christian goths- probably just because there are a lot of Christians, period.
The gothic subculture is one that delights in the darker, more elegant things, with a connection to the poetry of the Romantic era, the architecture of the Gothic era (which the aforementioned poetry was also trying to conect to) and the music that hearkened back to both. Modern Goth is not a subculture based on religion at all. It's a matter of aesthetics. You can run into a goth who is also a Christian, a Jew, a Satanist, a Wiccan, or anything else, really.
Now I'm not going to say that every goth you see wearing a cross is a Christian. (although it's likely- most pagan goths are leery of that particular symbol, and no Jew I've ever met would wear one.) There are other reasons to wear it. Foremost among these is the connection to vampire lore. You may also run into atheists using it as a means of cheerfully blaspheming, as odd as that probably sounds.
2006-10-10 17:46:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2015-08-13 02:14:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know were the term Gothic came from? It was a german tribe of barbarians. During the mediviel ages a new style of church design had taken place. Pointed steeples and arched doorways and stuff. Some thought of this new fashion to be repulsive and dubbed it "gothic" as in barbarian.
So techniquely the term Gothic is has to do with christianity before the goth clothes fashion came out.
Vampires have to do with crosses (only way to kill them supposedly to some stories) and vampires are considered dark, now goths like to wear black...
2006-10-10 17:45:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some are Christian. Check out http://www.christiangoth.com .
And some just like the look. It's easy to find a nice-looking cross, after all.
As you can see, you thought wrong, but that's okay.
2006-10-10 17:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that being Gothic means you wear a certain kind of clothes and has nothing to do with wether they believe in God or not.
2006-10-10 17:32:24 · answer #7 · answered by kelliekareen 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
some do as a blatent blaspheme..
some are honest christians that just like the style of dress that is called gothic.
you would probaly have to ask each individual to understand that one.
2006-10-10 17:32:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Gothic people are not all devil worshippers. It's a style of dress, it has nothing to do with religion.
2006-10-10 17:31:52 · answer #9 · answered by Me 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
did you think that Jesus' followers were the first ones who thought of putting two sticks together...sheesh. Besides they wear a cross b/c of the all the GOTHIC churches in transilvania, you rarley see one with a crucifix....although Goth people are not necessarily pagans...
2006-10-10 17:32:14 · answer #10 · answered by lscrighton 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋