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bible-thumper

/bahy-buhl-thuhm-per/US // ˈbaɪ bəlˌθʌm pər //

圣经跳跃者,圣经跳楼者,圣经跳动者,圣经跳板

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : an evangelist or other person who quotes the Bible frequently, especially as a means of exhortation or rebuke.

Examples

  • And “what kind of person,” Steinberg asks, “dares to write a sequel to the Bible?”

  • It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.

  • No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.

  • He stated—quite rightly—that animals are never mentioned in connection with eternal life in the Bible.

  • In the Bible, Moses does kill a guy—the Egyptian slave master who is beating an Israelite to death.

  • There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.

  • Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.

  • And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.

  • Is the Bible revelation so clear and explicit that no difference of opinion as to its meaning is possible?

  • I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.