I was working at Ford Aerospace in Silicone Valley and there was a movement (at least within the younger element of that firm) that I found to be very distressing, and for which I invented this term to describe.
It seems that the "in" thing to do was to go around declaring yourself to have embraced Jesus Christ as your savior, and then challenging the person to whom you were speaking to say anything about themselves to the contrary. People used to be really macho about it. At first I was able to ignore them by taking an attitude towards their behavior, "Yeah, and I took a shit this morning before coming to work. So what?" But then they began to come right out and ask me in a threatening voice if I had accepted Jesus Christ as my savior.
All of this happened during the time after it had been declared illegal to use religious affiliation as a basis for employment. So what they were doing was against the law, and I knew it. But as I remember, in the end what I did to put them down was to tell them that I was agnostic, and then remind them that what they were doing was against the law. About the same time, upper management got wind of what was going on and evidently words were spoken to those behind it all; because that practice did die down prior to my departure from that "lovely" environment.
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