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Calathumpian, also spelled "callothumpian", "carathumpian" and "calisthumpian", is used in a non-judgmental way to describe a religion or philosophy when it is relatively original, held by a small group, personally assembled, or not institutionalized. In addition it is sometimes used as a non-specific example of a religious or political persuasion. For instance "just because a Caluthumpian believes 'x', does not make it right".[1]
Calathumpian (possibly apocryphal origin from Latin “calathus” which comes from Greek "κάλαθος" = rubbish bin) is a description applied, sometimes pejoratively, to individuals who believe things that mainstream believers (at that time and place) tend to regard as rubbish.
In Pacific countries, Calathumpian has a more general meaning of any set, or sets of minority philosophical, religious, political, etc., beliefs not covered by specified categories, e.g. Mr John Howard (Australian House of Representatives Hansard, 1993 Oct 21) —"With regard to the service on 11 November next for the entombment of the Unknown Soldier, . . . these occasions have always been in the Australian tradition: Liberal, Labor, National Party, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Callithumpian, whatever one likes. They have never been exclusively one party, one denomination." [2]
There was also a Maryland criminal Know Nothing gang in Baltimore, Maryland in the mid-1800s known as the "Calithumpians".
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