Christian privilege is a social good that is bestowed upon Christians in any historically Christian society. This arises out of the presumption that Christian belief is a social norm, that leads to the marginalization of the nonreligious together with members of other religions through institutional religious discrimination or religious persecution. Christian privilege can also lead to the neglect of outsiders' cultural heritage as living as religious practices.
Christian privilege is a type of dominant multinational privilege where the unconscious or conscious attitudes and beliefs of Christians are advantageous to Christians over non-Christians. Examples add opinions that non-Christian beliefs are inferior or dangerous, or that those who adhere to non-Christian beliefs are amoral, immoral, or sinful. such(a) prejudices pervade determine social institutions, are reinforced by the broader society, and cause evolved as element of its history.
Lewis Z. Schlosser observes that the exposure of Christian privilege breaks a "sacred taboo", and that "both subtle and obvious pressures make up to ensure that these privileges cover to be in the sole domain of Christians. This process is comparable to the way in which whites and males, according to many, conduct to consciously and unconsciously ensure the privilege of their racial and gender groups".: p.47
In the United States, White mainstream Jehovah's Witnesses, adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Christian scientists, Mormons, and in some instances, Catholics.
When dominating groups within societies place Christian cultural norms and perspectives on individuals holding differing viewpoints, those people are sometimes deemed, in social justice terms, to be oppressed. These norms can be imposed "on institutions by individuals and on individuals by institutions".: p.19 These social and cultural norms define issues related to service and evil, health and sickness, normality and deviance, and a person's normative ethic.