godbag
n.— «Far worse than the language was the bitter hatred directed at Christians, particularly Catholics. I’m not a religious guy (godbag or christofascist in M&M parlance), but it was hard not to take offense at the immaculate conception being referred to as God filling Mary with his “hot, white, sticky holy spirit.”» —“Final observations on the Marcotte/McEwan debacle” by Eric The Pool Bar (Spotsylvania, Virginia) Feb. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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