Christian Girl

Christian girl is in bed, feigning sickness. In our domestic set-up, our suburban bedroom we share.

She claims to be not a born-again. "I just call myself a Christian". But this is to obfuscate: She is one.

One of the sincere, intelligent Christian teens. Intelligent in a limited way of course. A trendy Christian, unrelated to the old born-again stereotype. The youth movement now is immensely sophisticated and doesn't hesitate to stoop to depths of psychological warfare for recruitment purposes. Someone very clever is behind it. The shadowy hand of a United States-ian.

They have usurped popular genres of music and fashion and Christianized them ruthlessly. Some Christian public relations expert figured out that the thing to do to get the kids signing up was to copy MTV. Thus a particularly nefarious and insidious branch of the evangelical movement is born. They got their own channels & music videos at times indistinguishable graphically & sonically from the merely moneymaking mainstream. They have mass rallies for youth which are then televised, where individuals give speeches more like one a them motivational speakers than an old-fashioned preacher. Like that geezer what sells his CDs DVDs Affirmations for Personal Success and Enrichment in long advertorials, sharp-cheekboned, sharp-suited, perfectly white teeth grinning in a photograph. Obviously pumped up on steroids.
Part of that network of evangelical Christianity and freemarket capitalism which edges ever closer to a semblance of fascism, a fascism with perfect teeth. That has crept all over the rich and jaded west, brainwashing millions of disappointed teens, kids with a spiritual hole in their lives fed up with hedonism, falling prey to the over-simplifications of a predatory Christianity, a Christianity aggressive, base, and greedy, no relation the simple faith of our forefathers.

But Christian girl is a blasé little thing who unfortunately has fallen victim to propaganda. Duvet pulled up to her chin and smiling slightly. She hails from Belfast but is part of a latter-day generation that has seen little of the Troubles. An apolitical and non-sectarian generation. What used to be called in America Scots-Irish. Her daddy is some sort of minister. Very clean-cut air and a pixie-ish face, conventional shoulder-length light brown hair.