A place For Christian Goths to gather..

And please, if your intention in join this group is to attack us for our beliefs and lifestyles, please, be more mature about the matter and go to someone of higher status rather then attacking followers of Christ. I usually just accept you b/c everyone IS welcomed but please we try to keep the peace within this group

I'm just here to guide you guys, not to be a leader but to be one that takes the first "hits"; much like a servant. I'm here to serve the group/members in anyway possible... E-mail me or we can even be friends!!
-Earl Alfred Paus *God Bless*

Christian Goths are thoses whom dwelled in the goth way of life and then went into christianity....being Gothic is an emotion... there are many other ways of being a christian goth... so Jesus Freaks.. meet other Jesus FREAKS...

-Gos Bless us All..

~The Gothic subculture can often be a very daunting thing to understand. To most outsiders, Goth can appear to be little more than just a bunch of weirdos who dress in black and are probably all Satanists or something. To many "club kids" - those who adopt the appearance of Goth as a fetish - they probably look at it in much the same way. And for those inside the culture, it is often difficult to find a suitable voice to explain to others what it is all about. Goth is generally one of those things you feel and just know intuitively, without laying down a philosophical or aesthetic groundwork. What this tends to result in is many learned discourses on the pop-culture history of Goth (what bands and fashions appeared when and where), but offers little in the way of what Goth is manifestly "about".

In my own exploration of this question, to give voice to what I feel and know intuitively, I came accross the following wonderful quote by early 20th century literary scholar Montague Summers. Summers, a one-time Anglican minister and general eccentric who was known to dress like an 18th century priest, wrote many books examining beliefs in the occult and remains to this day one of the most influential authorities on Restoration era drama and Gothic literature. The following quote comes from his introduction to Horace Walpole's seminal Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto:

"There is in the Romantic revival a certain disquietude and a certain aspiration. It is this disquietude with earth and aspiration for heaven which inform the greatest Romance of all, Mysticism, the Romance of the Saints. The Classical writer set down fixed rules and precisely determined his boundaries. The Romantic spirit reaches out beyond these with an indefinite but very real longing to new and dimly guessed spheres of beauty. The Romantic writer fell in love with the Middle Ages, the vague years of long ago, the days of chivalry and strange adventure. He imagined and elaborated a mediaevalism for himself, he created a fresh world, a world which never was and never could have been, a domain which fancy built and fancy ruled. And in this land there will be mystery, because where there is mystery beauty may always lie hid. There will be wonder, because wonder always lurks where there is the unknown. And it is this longing for beauty intermingling with wonder and mystery that will express itself, perhaps exquisitely and passionately in the twilight moods of the romantic poets, perhaps a little crudely and even a little vulgarly in tales of horror and blood." Summers cuts to the directly to the heart of both Gothic literature and to the later Gothic subculture when he invokes the sense of the Romantic. Goth, if I may be so bold to propose, is fundamentally a modern Romantic movement couched in the pop-culture vocabulary of a specific context. This context I will examine later. What poses the greatest problem for the most people is the final line of Summers' statement: "And it is this longing for beauty intermingling with wonder and mystery that will express itself, perhaps exquisitely and passionately in the twilight moods of the romantic poets, perhaps a little crudely and even a little vulgarly in tales of horror and blood." In the relatively shallow experience of modern western culture with philosophy and aesthetics (the philosophy of art), such a comment makes no sense. The question is asked "how can Romanticism be expressed in tales of horror and blood? sn't that, like, the opposite of Romance?" A variation of the question, which my experience as a Christian knows all to well, is "How can you be a Christian and a Goth? Isn't Goth all about darkness and death and stuff? And isn't Christianity all about light and happiness and pink fuzzy bunnies?" This same refrain rings out for Goths of practically every mainstream religion, only to be avoided by Neo-Pagans and Satanists... And even then, it is often assumed that Neo-Pagans are just a type of Satanist anyways. To understand how this sense of the Romantic can be expressed in "tales of horror and blood", and by extension how Gothic culture is a pursuit of the Romantic, one has to understand the elementary philosophical. Understanding this is essential to understanding what Goth is "about".~~

This will not only be a place for christian goths to gather.. but a place for prayer as well....

do you like Christian Gothic Bands like.. Savior Machine. Bridgeshadows. The wedding Party. GraveyrardBats. RedLipstickdeath. Amos. Ashen Mortality. Audio Paradox. The Awakening. Betraval. Biogensis. Eva O. Excision. Grode. Kohllapse. Midnight Orchertra. Necromancer.