What is a cultural Christian?
“Christianity—and Christianity alone —has the moral coherence to it that serves as a dam holding back the full force of progressive ideology,” writes Andrew Walker for Southern Equip. Cultural Christianity has been increasingly affirmed by celebrities and people of notoriety. Tech mogul Elon Musk joined this new trend by calling himself a “cultural Chrisitan” in a recent interview. “We have seen progressivism hollow out civilizational decency and wear its skin as a suit,” writes Walker. The interesting development from this outcome is the beginning of the progressive exodus towards a morality more closely aligned with Christianity. “How evangelicals tackle cultural Christianity is a careful balancing act.” C.S. Lewis once wrote that if you “Aim at heaven, you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth, and you get neither.” “We should view this as an opportunity for cultural apologetics and, even more, a hopeful opportunity that Musk would dig into something deeper than just surface-le