"Here's something I think about often: When I was in high school, Christian t-shirts were popular, and it was a badge of courage to wear one to school. It was really no different than being the gutsy kid who wore a Raiders jersey to school in Broncos country. It didn't tell other kids anything about Jesus, it only told them something about the kid wearing the shirt. The truly holy kids upped the ante and brought their Bibles to school too, and allowed themselves to be seen with them. Hmm. Did that teach anyone anything about the message inside, or did it only serve to identify the Christian teens as members of one more subculture?

I think it showed every other clique that Christianity was just a clique too. Maybe it implied that the counter-cultural message of Christ couldn't plug into anyone's existing subculture. They would have to give up whatever they were doing and look like those kids if they became Christians. Worst of all, it created more than a handful of teenage Pharisees, who considered themselves persecuted and might even have become smug Christian adults."