History Main / CulturallyReligious

* The late programmer and [=TempleOS=] creator Terry A. Davis grew up in a Catholic household and became an atheist until he had a "revelation" from God that ordered him to build the Third Temple of Jerusalem in software format and became a born-again Christian of an unclear denomination. Though he expressed disdain for Catholicism (especially towards the Pope and the Irish) he admitted in an infamous [=TempleOS=] blog post that at some point in his life he fantasized about leading an "[[ChurchMilitant Catholic army]]" like in ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' composed of Mexicans and Brazilians (both belong to Catholic-majority countries).

* Creator/JeremyIrons, who coincidentally played the ruthless Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) on ''Series/TheBorgias'' is by no means practicing, [[http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/interviews/a21937/jeremy-irons-the-borgias/ but does cite his local parish]] as somewhat of an influence in his philosophy on caring for others.
* Creator/AnthonyBurgess was raised by Catholic parents in [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester, England]]. He had a heavily religious education in Catholic schools and, though he lapsed from his faith in his adult life, his works are consistent with a Catholic perspective and worldview on various subject matters such as the concept of free will in ''A Clockwork Orange''.
* A few people from Creator/RoosterTeeth cite themselves as this, though most notably Burnie Burns and Michael Jones. The former's dad was a priest at one point before retiring, and while Burnie doesn't seem much of a believer now he admits he would struggle to get rid of a Bible. The latter was raised Catholic by his parents and said that he doesn't follow it in adult life.

* Music/EdwardElgar was an English composer who was also brought up as a Catholic. He was sympathetic to English Catholics suffering prejudice in Protestant Britain and he composed a couple of religious choral works, like ''The Dream of Gerontius'', ''The Kingdom'', ''The Apostles'', and ''The Light of Life''. However, he was not particularly devout and was ambivalent towards the Catholic faith, especially towards the end of his life. He continued going to Mass because his wife Alice, a devout Catholic convert from Anglicanism, encouraged him to or because he admired a particular priest in a parish. He also denied that there is an afterlife, despite the irony of ''The Dream of Gerontius'' being about life after death.
* Romantic composer Music/HectorBerlioz was also raised Catholic and gained his love of music from the Church. After seven years, his religious fervour eventually died down and he became an agnostic for the rest of his life. However, he was not hostile to the Church and fondly recalled his childhood years. The influence of religious music remained with him throughout his life and he went on to compose a Requiem, a Te Deum, and ''L'enfance du Christ'', an oratorio on the childhood of Jesus.

* 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.

** 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.

* 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.