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  • noun Plural form of religionist.

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Examples

  • Religious tenets that preclude his "redemption" to borrow the term religionists use are at the top of the list of reasons for my faith in existentialism.

    TEXAS FAITH: Is wickedness soluble in good deeds? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Some statesmen are like certain religionists, who, in their anxiety to model their church organizations after the pattern of the New

    The Mission of Abraham Lincoln 1865

  • Some of the commentaries on the Ted Haggard scandal from the disgraced preacher’s co-religionists is illuminating.

    Priorities 2006

  • The difference between the existence of good and bad people within atheist circles and those of religious circles, is that the religionists are the ones who use their gods as a justification for their inhumane behaviors.

    The God Delusion 2007

  • The difference between the existence of good and bad people within atheist circles and those of religious circles, is that the religionists are the ones who use their gods as a justification for their inhumane behaviors.

    ideonexus.com » 2007 » March 2007

  • The so-called religionists, while looking upon Judaism as a faith, were yet disinclined to repudiate the purely nationalistic Jews, whose enthusiasm and devotion they admired even though it flowed from a source they did not officially acknowledge.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and of intelligence.

    democracy in America, volume 1 1838

  • The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, while men without patriotism and without principles, are the apostles of civilisation and of intelligence.

    American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and of intelligence.

    Democracy in America — Volume 1 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • Scientists have a flawed critique of religion, and religionists, that is, Occidental monotheists at least, are in a state that can only be called, 'metaphysical basket case'.

    Darwiniana 2008

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