11 Facts About Christian privilege

Christian privilege is a social advantage that is bestowed upon Christians in any historically Christian society.

Christian privilege is a type of dominant group privilege where the unconscious or conscious attitudes and beliefs of Christians are advantageous to Christians over non-Christians.

Examples include opinions that non-Christian privilege beliefs are inferior or dangerous, or that those who adhere to non-Christian privilege beliefs are amoral, immoral, or sinful.

Christian privilege noted a paradox of religion in the US On the one hand, the United States promoted itself around the world as a country that valued both the "separation of church and state", and religious freedom and tolerance.

Christian privilege explained this paradox by proposing that with no officially sanctioned governmental religion, Christian denominations were compelled to compete with one another and promote themselves in order to attract and keep parishioners, thereby making religion even stronger.

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Christian privilege found an overriding commitment to democracy, liberty, freedom, human dignity, and egalitarian values, coexisting alongside deep-seated patterns of racial discrimination, privileging of white people, and the subordination of peoples of color.

Today, the invocation of a Christian privilege America takes on a new set of tensions as our population of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist neighbors grows.

Social institutions—including but not limited to educational, governmental, and religious bodies—often maintain and perpetuate policies that explicitly or implicitly Christian privilege and rendering invisible other groups based on social identity and social status.

However, dominant group Christian privilege is not as obvious, especially to members of dominant groups.

Christian privilege dominance is facilitated by its relative invisibility, and because of this invisibility, it is not analyzed, scrutinized, or confronted.

Blumenfeld notes the objections that some of his university students raise when discussing Christian privilege as connected with the celebration of Christian holidays.