term to accuse other Christian individuals or denominations of selecting which Christian doctrines they will follow, and which they will not. The related term "cafeteria Catholicism" is a pejorative term applied to Catholics who dissent from Roman Catholic moral teaching on issues such as abortion, birth control, premarital sex, masturbation or homosexuality. The term is less frequently applied to those who dissent from other Catholic moral teaching on issues such as social justice, capital punishment, or just war. Interpretation Cafeteria-style means picking and choosing, as if "sliding our food tray along a cafeteria's counter". The term implies that an individual's professed religious belief is actually a proxy for their personal opinions rather than an acceptance of Christian doctrine. The selectivity implied may relate to the acceptance of Christian doctrines, or attitudes to moral and ethical issues (for example abortion, homosexuality, racism or idolatry) and the applicability of Old Testament laws to Christians. As the Christian version of "cherry-picking theology", it is seen as a result of postmodern reading of texts, where the reader goes beyond analysis of what requires interpretation, adopting an approach where "anything goes". In The Marketplace of Christianity, economists Robert Ekelund, Robert Hébert and Robert Tollison equate Cafeteria Christianity with self-generated Christianity, i.e. the religion of many Christians which "matches their demand profile" and "may be Christian or based in other areas of thought". They conclude that "Christian religious individualists have existed in all times." See also Adiaphora Apatheism Backsliding Biblical law in Christianity Christian atheism Christian agnosticism Christian deism Christianity and homosexuality Christian views on the Old Covenant Cultural Christian Cultural Mormon Double belonging Dual-covenant theology Hermeneutics Humanistic Judaism Lapsed Catholic Legalism (theology) Moralistic therapeutic deism New Covenant New Wine into Old Wineskins No true Scotsman Non-denominational Christianity Postchristianity Red-Letter Christian Rice Christian Sabbath in Christianity Sunday Christian Supersessionism References Further reading Eddie Gibbs, In Name Only: Tackling the Problem of Nominal Christianity. Fuller Seminary Press, 2000. Rommen, Edward. "A framework for the analysis of nominal Christianity : a West German case study," in Reflection and projection: Missiology at the threshold of 2001 : festschrift in honor of George W. Peters for his eightieth birthday (Bad Liebenzell : Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, 1988) p 322–337. Christian terminology Christian secularism 1990s neologisms