Sunday morning Christian
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The term "Sunday morning Christian" is used to describe Christians (Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox) who profess membership in a certain denomination yet fail to adhere strictly to the moral principles set down by that particular faith. The term is very closely related to "Cafeteria Catholic".
A Sunday morning Christian will often belong to a church, and may even attend services regularly (Sunday morning mass- hence the origin of the term) however, they might choose to ignore certain tenets of Church doctrine out of convenience. Sunday morning Christians often become more fervent on or near important holidays and religious occasions, such as Christmas and Easter.
The most common religious beliefs that are ignored by Sunday morning Christians would be pre-marital sex, birth control, and the fast during Lent. Most Sunday morning Christians are teenagers or young adults who find it hard to conform to their relgion's views on the above issues (namely, their social acceptance and preeminence in the wider secular culture). Young children or the elderly have less opportunity to indulge in the above vices, and so people in these two demographics rarely fit the description of a Sunday morning Christian.
Sunday morning Christians are not a recent phenomenon, although popular culture paints past generations as generally more pious and chaste than modern Western culture, ample historical evidence suggests that there have always been those who, in the words of an old proverb, do not "practice what they preach."
[edit] See also
- Saturday morning Jew
