Bible-thumper

Related to Bible-thumper: Bible-basher

Bible-thumper

A derogatory term for a Christian considered aggressively evangelistic or excessively focused on the literal teachings of the Bible. Primarily heard in US. After Mary started spending more time with her church's youth group, her friends from school began to complain that she had become a bit of a Bible-thumper
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • basher
  • Bible
  • Bible-basher
  • thumper
  • a blue-eyed boy
  • blob
  • bulldagger
  • bull-dagger
  • bulldiker
  • bulldyker
References in periodicals archive
Controversy seems to follow America's legions of Bible-thumpers.
For all the caricaturing of her as a backward Bible-thumper in recent weeks, there's little evidence from Palin's (albeit short) tenure as governor that shows she has attempted to foist a conservative religious political agenda on the state.
5) A sectarian book blurb touting the preachments of an evangelical Bible-thumper (Register-Guard, May 23).
BIBLE-THUMPER Gail Devers declared her fall from grace was God's will after her latest failure in the Olympic 100 metres hurdles.
Beth says she is no Bible-thumper. "But, if it comes up, we discuss how God's promises do not mean suffering will never occur.
He doesn't want to be taken as a nutty Bible-thumper. No, there will not be a flood.
YOU wouldn't have to be a bible-thumper to adore the Old Ebenezer Chapel at Sweets-house, near Lostwithiel.
Smith) live the perfect suburban guppie dream until a twitchy, buttoned-up homophobe Bible-thumper (Chad Donella) moves in next door.
This is the part of our crusty old pie of a town where the trade unionists, Bible-thumpers, eager salesmen and women, as well as charity collectors, all gather.
I don't hear much of that "good news" preached at Seoul Station or in the subway tunnels by the Bible-thumpers; I don't hear that from the aunties who pass out tracts in front of the neighborhood elementary school near where I stay.
Three young Bible-thumpers were all set to baptise and save me!
As appropriate reflection for Holy Week, one wonders if our bible-thumpers in the Senate would disqualify Peter as a witness because he thrice lied knowing Christ.
Many liberal Jews, for their part, hold stereotypes of evangelicals as intolerant Bible-thumpers.
To the cynical reporter for GQ Magazine, he said: "We're Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television.
I wonder how these bible-thumpers view the lesbian policewoman murdered in Manchester with a colleague.