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Bible-basher
(redirected from Bible-thumpers)

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a Bible-basher (British & Australian, informal, mainly American, informal)
an insulting way of describing someone who tries very hard to persuade other people to believe in Christianity. I have nothing against religion, but I hate Bible-bashers.


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I recall the adrenaline rush I felt one particular warm summer evening as I summoned up the courage to pray aloud at our closing campfire that "the still, small voice" of God might be heard amid all the bombast and emotionalism of the wind, earthquake, and fire to which we were being subjected by the Bible-thumpers.
NOT THAT THESE FOLKS AREN'T FAR PREFERABLE TO ANY GROUP OF SEX-HATING BIBLE-THUMPERS, BUT THESE "SENSUAL SANTAS" STILL GAVE ME THE CREEPS
Yet the notion that the United States, and particularly the old Southern Confederacy, remains the haunt of uncountable bible-thumpers persists.
 
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