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This article has been tagged since July 2007. Bible thumper (also Bible Beater) is a derisive term used to describe Christian fundamentalists, or anyone perceived as aggressively pushing their religious beliefs upon those who do not share them. As an insult, its target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religiosity, fundamentalist or not. Fundamentalist Christianity is a fundamentalist movement, especially within American Protestantism. ...
The term alludes to a preacher thumping his hand hard down on the lectern and the Bible on it to emphasize a point during a sermon.
Sid Meier used the term in his PC game "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" to refer to the religious fundamentalist faction, with remarks made by the other factions in the game along the lines of "they're too busy bible-thumping and it's cutting into their bible-reading" to suggest that they had lost sight of the bible's true teachings. “SMAC†redirects here. ...
It is also the name of a Bible-study program for Palm OS which contains the full text of the King James Bible. This is a good, albeit possibly somewhat tongue in cheek, example of an insult being reclaimed as a positive description. Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ...
This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...
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Fundie or fundy (plural fundies) is a pejorative slang term used in the United States to refer to Fundamentalist Christians, usually those who hold to Biblical inerrancy, are Creationists, or who believe that we are living in the End Times, especially those with a predispensational millenialist view. ...
Holy Roller is a term in American English used to describe Pentecostal Christian churchgoers. ...
A revival meeting is a series of Christian religious services held with an eye to encourage active members of a religious body and to provoke those outside of it to become part of it. ...
Marion Gordon Pat Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a televangelist from the United States. ...
Christian rock (occasionally abbreviated CR) is a form of rock music played by bands whose members are Christian and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the Christian faith. ...
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