de-Christianize
/diːˈkrɪstʃənʌɪz
/(also de-Christianise)
verb [with object]
Remove Christian influences or characteristics from.Our elite culture has been de-Christianized, and the notional faith that I heard preached from the pulpit in Trinity that day amounted to pure concession, Unitarianism in vestments....
- A decade ago, Irving Kristol warned his kinsmen and co-religionists not to antagonize a huge friendly Christian majority by using the courts to de-Christianize the country.
- We've been asked time and time again to de-Christianize our Apologia science curriculum.
Derivatives
de-Christianization
- The crises of the past 30 years - the dearth of vocations, the sex scandals, competition from evangelical Protestants, the de-Christianization of Europe - are serious indeed.
- Catholicism is more than its priests, and rural de-Christianization is of course not an entirely new phenomenon.
- Regarding Eamon Duffy's article on the de-Christianization of Europe: the main problem of the Catholic Church is not only the diminishing number of priests and faithful.