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de-Christianise

Definitions

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  • verb transitive To make unchristian or non-Christian.
  • verb transitive To deprive of the Christian character of.
  • verb transitive To remove the Christian aspect of.
  • verb intransitive To become un-Christian.
  • verb intransitive To renounce one's Christian faith.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ Christianize

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Examples

  • Motshekga, who asked the department to "de-Christianise" Christmas and Easter.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • As a disciple of Max Shachtman, Leo Strauss, Ayn Rand and the rest (or, more probably, as a disciple of their disciples), you want to de-Christianise (precisely in order to de-democratise and to enslave) the West, even if you are prepared, for popular consumption, to define your own system as Christianity so as to prevent any serious theological critique of it.

    Britannia Ruled the Waves 2007

  • If the State wants to de-Christianise us as a people - and it is succeeding - then at least it can spend a few coppers on "the people's" history.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

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