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The term alludes to a preacher thumping his hand hard down on the lectern and the Bible on it to emphasize a point during a sermon. Sid Meier used the term in his PC game " Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri " to refer to the religious fundamentalist faction, with remarks made by the other factions in the game along the lines of "they're too busy bible-thumping and it's cutting into their bible-reading" to suggest that they had lost sight of the bible's true teachings. It is also the name of a Bible-study program for Palm OS which contains the full text of the King James Bible . This is a good, albeit possibly somewhat tongue in cheek, example of an insult being reclaimed as a positive description. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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