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<sod>'''''Christianism''''' is a pejorative label invented by Andrew Sullivan to describe the [[Christian right]] in the United States.<ref name="safire" /><ref name="Walker05202005">{{cite journal|last=Walker|first=Ruth|date=May 20, 2005|title=Onward, Christianist soldiers?|journal=[[Christian Science Monitor]]|publisher=The Christian Science Monitor|location=Boston, Massachusetts|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0520/p18s04-hfes.html|accessdate=January 31, 2010}}</ref> Writing in 2005, the ''[[New York Times]]'' language columnist [[William Safire]] attributed the term (in this novel usage) to blogger [[Andrew Sullivan]], who wrote on June 1, 2003, page 19,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2003/06/page/19/|title=2003  June « The Dish|work=andrewsullivan.com}}</ref> "I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists. They are as anathema to true Christians as the Islamists are to true Islam."<ref name="safire">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/magazine/15ONLANGUAGE.html|title=Isms and Phobias |last=Safire|first=William|date=May 15, 2005 |work=New York Times|accessdate=January 29, 2010}}</ref> The bloggers Tristero and [[David Neiwert]] used the term shortly after.<ref>[http://tristero.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_tristero_archive.html#200373904 When Semantic Differences Are Not: Part Two] Tristero, June 2, 2003, accessed January 31, 2010.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://dneiwert.blogspot.ca/2003/06/how-about-christianism.html|title = How about Christianism?|website = Orcinus|last = Neiwert|first = David|date = June 8, 2003}}</ref> Sullivan later expanded on his usage of the term in a ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine column.<ref>Sullivan, Andrew (May 7, 2006).[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191826,00.html "My Problem with Christianism"], ''Time'', accessed January 31, 2010.</ref> Uses of the term can be found dating back to the seventeenth century, but these are unrelated to its modern meaning.<ref name="safire" /><eod>