Usage
Since the cafeteria Christian may be someone who wants "to reject the parts of scripture they find objectionable and embrace only the parts they like", the term can be used ad hominem, either to disqualify a person's omission of a Christian precept, or to invalidate their advocacy of a different precept entirely.
Equated with "Christianity Lite", it is sometimes used to deride the mass-appeal subculture of megachurches.
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—Kenneth G. Wilson (b. 1923)