anticlericals

I believe (and have believed from the beginning of the affair) that the "clerical sexual abuse" scandal is a gigantic red herring ginned up by an unholy alliance of anticlericals, homosexual activists (tu quoque, perhaps!?), Modernist "Catholics" and media voyeurs.

What planet...? 2009

As this conflict escalated into civil war, liberal anticlericals and conservative defenders of the Church hunted and killed each other with reckless abandon.

Melchor Ocampo (1814–1861) 2008

Costaguana identifies the origins of the split between liberals and conservatives in a 19th-century battle between anticlericals and obscurantists, at a time of a thriving free press and a democratic constitution.

A life in writing: Juan Gabriel Vásquez Interview by Maya Jaggi 2010

As this conflict escalated into civil war, liberal anticlericals and conservative defenders of the Church hunted and killed each other with reckless abandon.

Melchor Ocampo (1814–1861) 2008

The Revolution itself was an immensely divisive experience, splitting Frenchmen into royalists and republicans, Catholics and anticlericals, in ways that have survived until the present day.

Four French Revolutions Hampson, Norman 1988

But if materialists and anticlericals tended, once again, to approve — whilst the religious party (which included Pasteur himself) continued to oppose — spontaneous generation, this remained a quite secondary aspect of an issue that was eventually settled according to strictly scientific considerations.

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

With republican anticlericals suddenly criticizing

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN RATT 1968

The Monarchists protested against the interference of the pope in French politics, and the anticlericals declared that the Republic had not room for

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Much of the censure which his foreign policy has merited is equally applicable to the anticlericals and the Republicans of his time, whose press organs were clamouring for French aid towards the speedy realization of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Wouldn't surprise me though if anticlericals accept Islam's yoke surprisingly quickly, they don't have a religion to counter it ... or rebel against it violently since they're anti-clerical and thus in the end less amenable towards human rights (which come from our dignity in God).

StrategyPage.com 2009