/lit/ - Literature

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>in full costume
Allow me to propose an alternate way of perceiving the priest/monk garb in western society. It makes you stand out, but not necessarily in a positive way. To most people it is going to make you look rather ridiculous. So I think there is an element of allowing yourself to be humiliated and be viewed as a fool for Christ's sake. I don't equate it to the full "fool for Christ" archetype, but I think there is something going on in that is similar.
>and write books to other hipsters
Given that he actually gave up his worldly life and relegated himself to a cell in the woods, I fail to see how he is a "hipster". Perhaps a quantity of his readers have been, but I don't think there is anything about his conversion that is inauthentic like you are implying.
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If his fellow monks have chosen to venerate him, they are among many across the world who do so. He didn't build his own grave.