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* This comes up from time to time in ''Series/YesMinister'' with most of the main characters being culturally Anglican without demonstrating any real interest in religion beyond what is expected for a person in their position.
** The episode ''The Bishop's Gambit'' deals with this quite a bit. As PM Hacker has to appoint a new Bishop and the candidate that the Church of England wants is basically an atheist, despite being a member of the clergy. Sir Humphrey insists that this is fine since most senior clergy are atheists anyway and that the Church is more of a cultural institution than a religious one.
** The episode ''The Bishop's Gambit'' deals with this quite a bit. As PM Hacker has to appoint a new Bishop and the candidate that the Church of England wants is basically an atheist, despite being a member of the clergy. Sir Humphrey insists that this is fine since most senior clergy are atheists anyway and that the Church is more of a cultural institution than a religious one.
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* On ''Series/NineOneOne'', Eddie, who is notoriously anti-superstition to the point of mocking his colleagues who believe in the supernatural, nonetheless still has his Roman Catholic upbringing so deeply ingrained into him that finding out that his girlfriend Marisol once nearly became a nun results in him wanting to avoid sex with her because "God is watching" and "has eyes on the ground" via Marisol. At one point he even sees her as the Virgin Mary complete with HolyBacklight.
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* Modern Spaniards tend to be profoundly anti-religion as a side effect of the Church-sponsored [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco]] dictatorship, but they surely love their religious tradition and art, and many explicitly identify as Catholics even if they barely remember in the everyday life that God and the Church are even things. Those people often fall in the "non-practicing Catholic" pool (which doubles the size of the practising population in surveys), even although they are less often true believers than agnostics, deists, Jesuists or Christian atheists who consider themselves some kind of Catholic either by cultural reasons or for not having a strong grasp of all those terms.
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* Modern Spaniards tend to be profoundly anti-religion as a side effect of the Church-sponsored [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco]] dictatorship, but they surely love their religious tradition and art, and many explicitly identify as Catholics even if in their everyday life they barely remember in the everyday life that God and the Church are even things. Those people often fall in the "non-practicing Catholic" pool (which doubles the size of the practising population in surveys), even although they are less often true believers than which is variously filled with agnostics, deists, Jesuists or and Christian atheists who consider themselves some kind of Catholic either by cultural reasons or for not having a strong grasp of all those terms.
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** Creator/AntonioBanderas is openly agnostic, yet he is part of a brotherhood of the Spanish Holy Week, and also played a Catholic priest in ''The Body''.
* One can argue that the Balkans have taken this trope and run with it. with the exception of Alabania, most people of the Balkans still associate their culture with their religion making it very hard to shake it off even if they are not religious themselves. like the Spanish above the love their imagery and traditions with many taking part on the easter games and traditions that have come out of the religion.
* One can argue that the Balkans have taken this trope and run with it. with the exception of Alabania, most people of the Balkans still associate their culture with their religion making it very hard to shake it off even if they are not religious themselves. like the Spanish above the love their imagery and traditions with many taking part on the easter games and traditions that have come out of the religion.
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** Creator/AntonioBanderas is openly agnostic, agnostic (he still identifies as such, although he has recently implied to have become a sort of deist), yet he is part of a brotherhood of the Spanish Holy Week, Week because he loves the whole Passion rhing, and also played a Catholic priest in ''The Body''.
* One can argue that the Balkans have taken this trope and run with it. with the exception of Alabania, most people of the Balkans still associate their culture with their religion making it very hard to shake it off even if they are not religious themselves.like Like the Spanish above the love their imagery and traditions with many taking part on the easter games and traditions that have come out of the religion.
* One can argue that the Balkans have taken this trope and run with it. with the exception of Alabania, most people of the Balkans still associate their culture with their religion making it very hard to shake it off even if they are not religious themselves.
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* Creator/JamesJoyce's religious views are complicated. He was brought up a Catholic and educated by Jesuits at Belvedere College, but this was largely due to his mother's influence. His father was a Republican who supported Parnell (the Protestant politician who came ''very close'' to uniting the divide between Protestants and Catholics), and Joyce himself harbored those same sympathies. On the one hand, he lost his faith as a young man and dramatized his break from the Church in ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'' ("non serviam"); his wife Nora even honored his intentions of declining a religious service for Joyce's burial. On the other hand, some critics suggested that Joyce never fully left the Church, stating how ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' and ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' are works of Catholic sensibility. In addition, an interview with Eileen Joyce Schaurek, his sister, suggested that James Joyce's apostasy was merely an act to shock people and to cover up what he really was like. Whatever his religious views are, Joyce was still drawn to the Church's aesthetics, and the Catholic faith deeply influenced his works.
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* Creator/JamesJoyce's religious views are complicated. He was brought up a Catholic and educated by Jesuits at Belvedere College, but this was largely due to his mother's influence. His father was a Republican who supported Parnell (the Protestant politician who came ''very close'' to uniting the divide between Protestants and Catholics), and Joyce himself harbored those same sympathies. On the one hand, he lost his faith as a young man and man, dramatized his break from the Church in ''Literature/APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan'' ("non serviam"); serviam"), and generally used Catholic rituals and concepts in a very flippant, irreverent manner; his wife Nora even honored his intentions of declining a religious service for Joyce's burial. On the other hand, some critics suggested that Joyce never fully left the Church, stating how ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' and ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' are works of Catholic sensibility. In addition, an interview with Eileen Joyce Schaurek, his sister, suggested that James Joyce's apostasy was merely an act to shock people and to cover up what he really was like. Whatever his religious views are, Joyce was still drawn to the Church's aesthetics, and the Catholic faith deeply influenced his works.
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* ''Series/TheLoomingTower'': O'Neill is a lapsed Catholic but one of his girlfriends is devout and the weight of his sins is very heavy on his shoulders. He cares enough about it that rather than just divorce his wife (which could result in his excommunication), O'Neill pursues an annulment, but it doesn't work.
