Christians Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Other non-religious usages === Nominally "Christian" societies made "Christian" a default label for citizenship or for "people like us".<ref> Compare: {{cite book |year=1957 |chapter=Christian| editor1-last = Cross| editor1-first = Frank Leslie| editor1-link = Frank Leslie Cross| editor2-last = Livingstone| editor2-first = Elizabeth A. |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fUqcAQAAQBAJ |edition=3 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press| publication-date = 2005 |page=336 |isbn=9780192802903 |access-date=5 December 2016 |quote=In modern times the name Christian ... has tended, in nominally Christian countries, to lose any credal significance and imply only that which is ethically praiseworthy (e.g. 'a Christian action') or socially customary ('Christian name').}} </ref> In this context, religious or ethnic minorities can use "Christians" or "you Christians" loosely as a shorthand term for mainstream members of society who do not belong to their group β even in a thoroughly secular (though formerly Christian) society.<ref> Compare: {{cite book |last1=Sandmel |first1=Samuel |title=We Jews and You Christians: An Inquiry Into Attitudes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eq_qXK_ZlsMC |publisher=Lippincott| date = 1967 |access-date=6 December 2016}} </ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page