chapotraphouse

What is a cultural christian anymore?

In the past they pretended they supported western style secular diverse societies where lgbt people could live and everyone could do their thing. It was used as a pinkwashing bludgeon against the rest of the world to justify imperialist actions.

Now what is it? They have no moral superiority to hide behind. Their "cultural christianity" is walking back all social progress.

These people are dying out as a group.

That's it. I'm being Christian but culturally atheist

Culturally christian is bullshit, but "christian atheist" is a useful term.

My subconscious underpinnings, view towards self and others, are so heavily wrapped up in the lens of protestant Christianity. Of course, I reject the homophobia and sexism that these types may identify as part of the "culture", but otherwise the term itself can provide a lot of use.

One instance that comes to mind is the love of martyrdom in the West. It is identified with liberalism but that as well is identified with whatever bourgeois changes were grafted onto Christianity.

"Cultural Christian" means they celebrate all the late stage capitalist consumerism that is holidays, and they enjoy neo-colonialism.

Tongue-in-cheek, I like to say that "A cultural Christian is an atheist who says 'God damn it.'" It's different from how most Redditors use the term, but I think it fits.

I've seen this used as a critique, where all the western chauvinist colonial brainworms that are present in Christianity are still present in atheism even though the theological justification isn't there (and many of those atheists considering themselves morally superior to the Christians that they repudiate).

I think in my lifetime I saw Dawkins say he was culturally Christian just after the invasion of Iraq, and it seems much more a declaration of his "side" and a rejection of Islam, but I think it became more common to say about yourself around the same time gamergate atheists became tradcaths.