When having two continuous adjectives, how should I choose what will be first in a sentence? or it doesn't matter?
For example:
He's "religious Christian"
or
"He's Christian religious"?
I want to say that he's deeply religious and goes to church twice a week. But both are adjectives: religious and Christian and I'm not sure about the order in such case.
Best Answer
The words Christian and religious both can be either adjectives or nouns. Both of your sentences make sense if you add in the indefinite article, but they mean different things (and the second one uses somewhat specialized terminology).
Using Christian as a noun and religious as an adjective:
This means that he is a Christian (a noun - scroll down at the dictionary link you gave in your question and you'll see that there's a noun definition) who is more than just casually Christian. More often, the adjective "devout" is used to mean "very observant."
Using religious as a noun and Christian as the adjective:
This is the one that's a bit more unusual. As a noun, a religious is someone who is a member of a religious order, like a monk. This is honestly a fairly rare usage of this word that even a lot of native English speakers would be unfamiliar with, so if you want to say that someone is a monk and you're not speaking to people who deal with members of religious orders on a regular basis, you should probably just say, "He's a Christian monk."