Opinion of "Non-practicing Christians"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If they don't go to church but still pray and have a relationship with God still I can understand it. If they're actually atheist/agnostic than it's utterly absurd and a contradiction.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If they don't go to church but still pray and have a relationship with God still I can understand it. If they're actually atheist/agnostic than it's utterly absurd and a contradiction.

By this I also mean they don't pray or do any sort of religious activities at home either yeah. Basically a sort of "Christian in name only" kind of person; which is very common in my experience.

Not in the US.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

When it comes to Christianity, all you really have to do is "acknowledge" Jesus as your lord & savior. Couple that with Jesus "fulfilling the law" & you don't really have to do anything to say you're a "Christian."

The thing is the people being referred to here often don't even do that. Which makes identifying as a Christian completely pointless.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The fact that so many people in this thread are so baffled (even offended!) at the idea that somebody might identify with a religion culturally rather than spiritually/ideologically is, itself, baffling. This is your brain on modernism, I guess.

I dislike it in part because as the top poster here I'm a demographics and data nerd and the questions "are you a Christian?" and "were you raised Christian?" are very far from the same thing. For just one thing. It also strikes me as pretty alien because seeing as how "DIY scene Christian" is a bit of a sub-subculture within the greater scene no one in it would ever mistake the first question to actually mean the second.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am effectively 'culturally Catholic' in the sense I am from a heavily Catholic town, went to Catholic school and part of a huge Catholic family that while not active worshippers, still do big family things during Catholic feasts even arranging get togethers at certain times of the day based on when mass had traditionally finished. This is not really that uncommon in parts of Europe.

In Scotland in a census, they will often tick 'Catholic' for religion despite never going to mass, then there's the whole Irish Nationalism (now Scottish Nationalism) issue, Celtic FC. These are cultural markers. And even the most ardent secularists still have them.

But if any of these guys grew up there before they moved to Glasgow, it obviously wouldn't be true of them:

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I am effectively 'culturally Catholic' in the sense I am from a heavily Catholic town, went to Catholic school and part of a huge Catholic family that while not active worshippers, still do big family things during Catholic feasts even arranging get togethers at certain times of the day based on when mass had traditionally finished. This is not really that uncommon in parts of Europe.

In Scotland in a census, they will often tick 'Catholic' for religion despite never going to mass, then there's the whole Irish Nationalism (now Scottish Nationalism) issue, Celtic FC. These are cultural markers. And even the most ardent secularists still have them.

But if any of these guys grew up there before they moved to Glasgow, it obviously wouldn't be true of them:

No one cares.

Just showing how it's very far from universal and thus some people might find it a pretty alien thing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

"DIY scene Christian"...

Thank you for making me feel like a good Christian for once.

It's kind of pretty complicated, but the best summary I can say is that saying you're a Christian in my subculture carries more implications than simply "I was raised Christian" (which I'll note the vast majority of people in it were), and thus no one does unless they're an actual believing Christian.