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Anti christian slurs

Palamite- a slur used in america to claim that orthodox are not truly orthodox, but followers of palamas.

Lutherite- North America; Ireland, a term used to denote protestants not as followers of Christ, but followers of luther. 2600:1015:B11C:73D5:68D7:DD5C:A7EB:3E49 (talk) 12:20, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"but followers of palamas", If you mean followers of Gregory Palamas, that would be "followers of Hesychasm" or "hesychasts". Dimadick (talk) 15:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Would hesychast be a more pertinent slur? 2600:1008:B071:3C2D:6C1B:EC32:7D31:97AE (talk) 19:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Banta

I removed this as I could not find a citation that defined this as a slur. I only found citations that mention it is a class of jokes that target and offend Sikhs. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 08:07, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Any validity to Nanga Baba for the Jains?

There's no reference for it. A google search also shows nothing. If no one can provide proof it should be taken down. UnbiasedSN (talk) 06:11, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I removed it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 03:54, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'Anti-Christian slurs'

Unlike most of the slurs pertaining to other religions, most of the 'anti-Christian' ones describe not all Christians or even all adherents of a specific denomination, but rather individuals evincing specific undesired behaviours (such as obtrusively proselytising > 'Bible thumper') or, at most, having specific takes on religion (such as fundamentalism > 'fundie'). Some, like 'cafeteria Christian', are even used by Christians to condemn other Christians of the same denomination: by this logic, concepts like simoniac/simonist would also have to be categorised, absurdly, as 'anti-Christian slurs' (much as when 'uncle Tom' or 'coconut' have been ridiculously claimed to be 'racial slurs'). (Not to mention that the list would have to include the various names of 'heresies' like 'Arian', 'Monophysite' or 'Nestorian' that were often different from (some of) their targets' self-designations and were used to condemn them.) In general, the idea that any more or less disparaging word for any religious position or any religion-related behaviour that one disapproves of can be called a 'slur' - with the implication that the disapproval itself is bigotry - seems problematic. Note that 'slur' is defined by Wiktionary as 'an extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term targeted at a group of people'. Then, the same could be said of terms describing religiously intolerant attitudes, such as 'sectarian' and 'takfiri'. Even the very word 'bigot' originally meant an excessively sanctimonious Christian, so using it would have to be considered ... bigoted! I suppose all of these terms could be called 'pejorative', but labelling 'fundie' and 'Bible thumper' - or, for that matter, 'Cafeteria Christian' - as 'extremely offensive and socially unacceptable terms' seems inadequate. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 10:55, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]