anti-clerical

• “They were an anti-clerical lot, the Framers, even the clerics among them.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “At university, bin Laden, who had been raised in the strict tradition of Saudi 'Salafist' Islamic practice known outside the kingdom as Wahhabism , was exposed to newer, more politicised and often anti-clerical religious doctrines.”

  The Guardian: Osama bin Laden obituary

• “It tells the story of the "whisky priest" on the run in a nameless southern Mexican state (Tabasco) during the anti-clerical purges of the 1930s.”

  Mexico inspires a growing list of foreign writers

• “This was the first openly anti-clerical comedy, touching, between the lines of its farce, on sexual abuse, alcoholism and corruption.”

  The Guardian: Holy smoke: religion and television's uneasy pact

• “The main functions were to drink, read anti-clerical papers to each other, and dine extravagantly.”

  The Guardian: Hugh Muir's diary

• “In addition, however, Adams was very anti-clerical.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780

• “We encounter battles between Italian patriots and Bonapartists, the temporal claims of the Catholic Church versus those of anti-clerical liberalism, the trumpet blasts of imperialism leading to the invasion of Libya in 1912, the totalitarianism of Mussolini's two-decade rule, and the conflicts that have raged since then.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Heirloom City

• “It was once one of finest centres of intellectual inquiry in Europe, thanks to the efforts of its founder, the sternly anti-clerical philosopher Jeremy Bentham.”

  The Guardian: How radical Islam seduced the academics

• “In Mesbah Yazdi's vernacular, a "freemason" is an anti-clerical person.”

  The Huffington Post: Ali Rahnema: Ayatollah Khamenei at Unprecedented Religio-Political Summits: The Hidden Imam's Infallible Representative

• “Greene liked to find unusual names – Bendrix, Querry – for his protagonists, so his refusal to name the alcoholic Mexican priest on the run from the anti-clerical authorities is significant.”

  The Guardian: Ten of the best nameless protagonists in literature

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