I saw a passing comment by someone the other day where they described their upbringing as being largely excluded from pop culture, but lots of time spent with Classical music and reading the likes of T.S. Eliot.  Later as I thought about this relating it to my own upbringing which also did not include pop culture, I wondered if I felt the same satisfaction with that choice that that writer seemed to feel. I didn’t.

And then I realized the crucial difference was that I was excluded from pop culture and given Christiany fluff to replace it, while she had been given the classics of Western culture to imbibe and dig into. There is still a large segment of the Christian population that rightfully shields their children from today’s pop culture, but they do not replace it with the Christian culture found in the hallways of Western classics in literature, music and art. They shun these and thus emerges a segment of evangelical Christianity that knows nothing about its heritage and prefers to keep it that way.