Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who don't believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who still have an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.
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- Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who don't believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who still have an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it. The majority of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas. Another frequent application of the term is to distinguish political groups in areas of mixed religious backgrounds. The term "cultural Christian" is often used pejoratively by more religious, usually fundamentalist, Christians. Alternately, those belonging to charismatic movements, use the term to describe individuals, whose spiritual understanding or practice they see as underdeveloped, superficial, or lacking obvious fervor. In a Chinese context, "Cultural Christian" is related to Sino-Christian Theology. Evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins has described himself as a cultural Christian. Likewise, non-believing sex advice columnist Dan Savage has described himself as a cultural Catholic: "I'm Catholic--in a cultural sense, not an eat-the-wafer, say-the-rosary, burn-down-the-women's-health-center sense. I was so Catholic that I attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, a Catholic high school in Chicago for boys thinking about becoming priests. Along with my classmates I got to meet the pope in 1979 when he dropped by our school during his visit to Chicago. We gave him a soccer ball".
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- Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who don't believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who still have an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.
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