>> avowedly Christian
> This ... is a bad thing ? It is not a bad thing to be unashamed of being a Christian.
The bit you're quoting is not talking about a person, like a person being ashamed of something or not. It's talking about the governmental stance towards a country. The full quote being "So, while the Tories in Britain and the Republicans in the United States set about creating a neo-liberal Anglosphere – anti-egalitarian, avowedly Christian, pro-Big Business, pro-military"
Even someone who's a proud Christian has good reasons not to want the country to be avowedly in favour of one religion. (i'm not saying all Christians would hold this view).
As an atheist, I wouldn't want the country to go that way.