Someone who takes a perfectly good creed and assumes that because they pretend to follow it, they are allowed to do anything they want even if they don't really follow the creed at all. Usually insisting that if others do not follow their ways, they will be damned.
During the middle ages, Christian religious fanatics entered the Middle East to aide the Bysantine Empire, and were often slaughtered.
Today, religious fanatics in Iraq bombed the US embassy. Four were killed, five-hundred twelve were wounded.
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A term used by people who have been treated awfully by religious people. Often times, the religious person is a guardian or someone close to you, but can also just be random religious people.
βNo, I donβt hate religious people, I just hate the stupid ones. I have religious trauma, you canβt blame me.β
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The status of a person claiming to be a practicing Christian who in reality goes to church on Christmas and Easter Only.
Dad: You need to quit being a "Religious CEO" and start really getting down with your faith.
Me: Whatever dad I went to the Easter pagent and watched Jesus get Crucified last year.
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A person who has ruined religion by using it for his own personal gain and to make him seem like (s)he's better than non-religious people.
Mr. Ferguson from South Park. His famous song, "Merry Fucking Christmas" is very zealous.
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People who often vote republican because of such issues like abortion and gay rights. Believe that their religion is the one true religion and they have the market cornered on spirituality.
Jesus would have been a liberal.
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A leader of, or someone holding significant power in a political party who enforces his religious views on the public - without taking into account the secular nature of parliament.
This can be achieved either secretly behind doors or publicly, doing whatever they can with whoever they can however they can whenever they can to justify their religious perversion.
1. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - even though 60% of Australian's believe in the right for gays and lesbians to marry he doesn't - it's his personal view that they are not equal citizens. He is a practicing catholic/anglican (yeah he does both).
Example: Kevin Rudd is a religious skank because he uses his position within his party to justify muting all discussions within his party about same sex marriage and then claiming that it is party policy.
2. Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott - in his previous position as health minister he rejected the abortion pill RU-486, eventually forcing a rare conscience vote in February 2006 on the matter which stripped him of his powers (the drug is now available). Tony Abbott is a practicing catholic.
Example: Tony Abbott is a religious skank because he used his position as health minister to stop the sale of the abortion pill RU-486 in Australia.
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Usually called fundamentalists, these people tend to be the idiots that piss off atheists and lead them to be jerks in definitions like god and bible.
these people are oblivious to the obvious, and were ostracized from europe and russia, and sent to what is nowdays called the united states.
The USA is the proud home of religious zealots.
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