Christian punk

For example, Ninety Pound Wuss vocalist Jeff Suffering said about the breakup of the band in 2000, "...[N]obody wanted to continue playing in [the] "Christian" music industry.

"[3] It has been noted that "measured purely by record sales, Christian punk dwarfs all other religious contributions to the genre".

The rise of the Jesus Movement and its cultural institutions, such as Jesus People USA (JPUSA), served as an incubator for various Christian subcultures including punk, in part through JPUSA's label Grrr Records and their annual music festival Cornerstone also referred to as a type of "Christian Woodstock."

One popular band within that scene was Undercover, who proclaimed that "God Rules", with a combination of rockabilly and hardcore punk elements.

Band such as Relient K, Hawk Nelson, FM Static, Flatfoot 56, Stellar Kart, and This Providence gained popularity with more mainstream audiences.

Elements of anti-authoritarianism within the punk subculture and in Christianity include challenging the uncritical acceptance of social norms in the church and the world.

The Deadlines, likewise, parodied horror film themes on their album The Death and Life Of.... One analysis notes that the "Evangelical authenticity of Christian punk is also predicated on the same anticommercialism of secular punk", which is "not a total rejection of commerce, but an insistence that the music and its spiritual sentiments supersede the profit".

[2] Sanctified Noise made it a point to play at secular venues, preach between songs, lead skin heads, punk rockers, runaways and addicts in a salvation prayer after their concerts, and then disciple concert converts at their home church they ran in the club district, no shoes required.

Adherence to the practice of Christianity (or any religion, established or not) is, by definition, conformity to rules set forth by someone other than the individual for themself.

This idea gave rise to Christian punk's term "JCHC", meaning "Jesus Christ Hard Core", which draws its name from an Officer Negative song of the same name.

The majority of Christian punk bands do not espouse anarchy or communism; Officer Negative's logo is a parody of the Circle-A commonly associated with anarchism.

[7] Crashdog disbanded in the late 1990s to start Ballydowse, a more political band which also took strong stances on human rights issues.