Bible-pounder
noun
Bi·ble-pound·er
variants
or less commonly bible-pounder
plural Bible-pounders also bible-pounders
US, informal
: bible-thumper
A typical God-fearing Bible-pounder who believes that money in the bank is a sign of God's approval.—
Trevanian, Incident at Twenty-Mile, 1999
Trevanian, Incident at Twenty-Mile, 1999He wants to connect the kind of people that he represents—Evangelical Christians—but not necessarily the image of Evangelical Christians that you may have of some sort of fundamentalist Bible-pounder, those sorts of clichés from popular imagination.—Ron Elving, National Public Radio, 18 Aug. 2008
Ron Elving, National Public Radio, 18 Aug. 2008
Bible-pounding
adjective
or less commonly bible-pounding
Many people in our culture today try to stereotype Christians as wild-eyed zealots and legalistic Bible-pounding bigots.
—Charles W. Colson et al., Answers To Your Kids' Questions, 2000
Charles W. Colson et al., Answers To Your Kids' Questions, 2000
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