@mossgoblingrrl.bsky.social

I think you can see this in cases where a commitment to maintaining a 'hard' individuality between gods leads to ideas that seem counter to the syncretism we see in the ancient world or ideas like the Stoic Zeus or the Neoplatonic One

It's a good point. Anecdotally I see something like this in Pagan communities where for older generations being 'not christian' plays a much bigger role in how they choose and develop practices/idea than it does for younger generations

Does it matter that no one engaging with those institutions identifies as christian or holds christian beliefs? When do institutions get to stop being christian?

We can obviously talk about cultural institutions being christian, or secular. Even ignoring the seemingly infinite regress you would get (when is a institution actually a secular christian late-roman pre-roman practice), how many historical christian institutions make a christian society?

But like you say, it's all framing

I would accept they show deep historical christian roots, but I think that's very much a different thing than saying a country is very christian today. I think the later should refer to current beliefs/identities/intentions, not historically christian accretions like Sunday lunch