What is a "cultural christian"?

I've never heard this term. Sounds like a vague, wanting to fit in but not really believing anything, excuse of a phrase.

Celebrates Christmas?

Lies

What r2 said. Someone who doesn't attend church but puts up a Christmas tree. That's about it.

translates to 'hypocrite', just like real KKKristians

[quote]Sounds like some bullshit a white supremacist would use.

Richard Dawkins described himself as such more than a decade ago now, so this definitely isn't something new, you just might be hearing it for the first time.

NO, it is similar to cultural jew. Meaning you are not religious, but you follow the customs and holidays.

I prefer “cafeteria Catholic”—it’s a more precise term.

R7 it’s not the same. It’s made up bullshit from the right. Nothing like the term “cultural Jew” that has a very long history.

I describes me, in a way. I mostly see family on Christian holidays.

Sounds like some bullshit Grimes would come up with to say she's a white supremacist but still coming across as cool and sophisticated. Probably what Curtis Yarvin calls himself.

That’s not what any cultural Jew does.

It means they celebrate Christmas, and would go to a church wedding or funeral…but don’t really believe any of it.

I interpret it it as performative. You promote the image and wish to be viewed as a Christian in order to fit into your particular social groups, but you don't follow, comprehend, or truly believe and/or wish to follow any of it.

See Trump.

Maybe you're onto something r14. I know a few atheist real estate agents who are always going to church functions.

R14 really? Trump is a diametrically opposed Christian. He can’t even fake it

[quote]What is a "cultural christian"?

Someone who appreciates devout poetry, sacred music, church architecture, and the King James Bible. Who attends Christenings, Marriages and Funerals imbued with Christian observances. Ask them however if they believe in the Virgin Birth, and the Resurrection, and the answer is quite likely to be uncertain at best.

In the US it would be a MAGA voter with fascistic fantasies and/or tendencies.

[quote] That’s not what any cultural Jew does.

Secular Jews.

Most Jews are culturally Jewish, not religious.

R4 is correct. It's someone who celebrates Christmas and, for example, says "god bless you" when someone sneezes, but doesn't profess or follow the Christian faith. It differentiates between Christians, non-christians, and cultural Christians. Most cultural Christians were raised at least nominally in the faith but don't identify with it in adulthood.

Someone who was probably raised in one of the Christian denominations, no longer practices it, but who observes the Christian holidays in a secular manner. You can make the argument that the USA is a broadly Christian culture, as is Europe.

R18 is Birdie Hubbard

It means, "I don't go to church or believe any of that mess, but I still hate Muslims."

It's like non religious Jew, I guess. Grew up in a Christian household with Christian customs but isn't a believer.

That's exactly what it is, R25.

Christmas, Easter, wedding rituals in a church, funeral rituals - those are all culturally Christian.

Birth/wedding/burial and holidays - those are the main things that can define a religious culture - even if you don't believe in it, you still perform many of the cultural aspects of that religion.

The rituals around birth/wedding/burial and holidays are different among Jews than Christians - as they are with Muslims.

That’s not how it is in a Jewish household. You fake Christian’s will never get it…

What does Christian possess?

An empty souls. What’s you have?

[quote] An empty souls

That went over your head, dindt it?