By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - At the present time, and under current conditions, in most public places, I would say that reciting the Athanasian Creed would be an example of “badass Christianity.”... There are other examples... By extension, the statement of any of the multiple elements of the Christian creeds, and their application to “real world” questions (such as baby-killing or abortion), is an example of the “badass” approach, which will draw criticism from many of our contemporaries, including most bourgeois Christians, and the Catholic ones.