I see all these kids today, running around wearing black, sporting ankhs, listening to garbage like Maralyn Manson, and calling themselves goth (as if white trash like MM could ever understand true Goth culture.) This is not goth, merely the affectations of gothdom. Let me explain, briefly, what my (not-so) humble opinion of Goth is.

First, understand, that the true Goth subculture has 3 distincive bases:

Something I've begun to notice, with alarming frequency in recent months, is the advent of something called "Christian Goth". This is an abomination. Christianity is in direct opposition to the morality of the Gothic subculture.

As I stated in the above article, the Goth morality is defined by three philosophies: Narcissism, Hedonism, and Nihilism. Christians do not believe in adoration of self, to the contrary, they believe in the adoration of Christ. Christians do not subscribe to physical pleasures, in fact, they denounce such things as sinful or evil. Christians are definitely not Nihilists...They believe in an after life and a morality which is strictly defined in the words of their "holy" scriptures as those of us who do not subscribe to such bullshit know only too well.

You may wear black, wear silver jewelry and listen to gothic music, but if your lord and saviour is a dead Jewish mystic, YOU ARE NOT GOTH!!!

Let's look at some basic facts...Did Jesus subscribe to any (let alone all three) of the Gothic tenets? Did Jesus read Poe? Did Jesus have any fashion sense at all? The answer to the above questions are a resounding NO, therefore Jesus was not Goth. This being the case, how could any of his followers possibly be of the Goth persuasion. Answer: They can't. In fact, to claim to be a "Christian Goth" is to be a hypocrite on both counts.