Bible-basher

noun

Bi·ble-bash·er

variants or less commonly bible-basher

plural Bible-bashers also bible-bashers

chiefly British, informal

: bible-thumper

The old-style Bible-bashers were street-corner evangelists who bawled all Hell out of luckless sinners for the greater glory of the Lord.—

Douglas Fairey, Weekend, 7–13 Feb. 1968

… the activities of opium-smugglers and bible-bashers in the early nineteenth century provide some wryly amusing material of which the author makes the most.—

Times Literary Supplement, 26 Jan. 1967

Bible-bashing adjective

or less commonly bible-bashing

Although the gamblers had helped lay the economic foundations of the American South, their expulsion begat the God-fearing, Bible-bashing belt still with us today. —

Anthony Holden, Big Deal, 1990

They've drifted from organised religion because of the fashion in recent decades for the materialistic lifestyle, and won't be enticed back by Bible-bashing evangelism or Christian social strictures. —

George Pitcher, Daily Telegraph (London), 17 Dec. 2009