Faith-head
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Faith-head is a pejorative
term used to describe an overly religious person. The term is usually used by irreligious people as a derogotary slur to refer to religious people. The term has been coined on atheist websites and books to describe overly zealous religious people.
The term was popularized by Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion
, where the term faith-head is used to imply comparisons to "crackheads".
Pejorative
Pejoratives , including name slurs, are words or grammatical forms that connote negativity and express contempt or distaste. A term can be regarded as pejorative in some social groups but not in others, e.g., hacker is a term used for computer criminals as well as quick and clever computer experts...
term used to describe an overly religious person. The term is usually used by irreligious people as a derogotary slur to refer to religious people. The term has been coined on atheist websites and books to describe overly zealous religious people.
The term was popularized by Richard Dawkins in his book The God Delusion
The God Delusion
The God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that...
, where the term faith-head is used to imply comparisons to "crackheads".