Popery

Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love. ❋ Thomas Arnold (1818)

Whether this be the number of the errors and heresies that are contained in popery, or rather, as others, the number of the years from its rise to its fall, is not certain, much less what that period is which is described by these prophetic numbers. ❋ Unknown (1721)

It must be remembered that there was less of priestcraft -- less of what we now call popery -- in those earlier days than there came to be later on; and the springs of truth, though somewhat tainted, were not poisoned, as it were, at the very source, as they afterwards became. ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

Egypt, delivering us from popery, which is Romish idolatry, and causing the light of his truth to break forth gloriously among us. ❋ Unknown (1692)

Only it having been always accounted a very rational and allowed way, to judge what may be by what has been, you may remember that about forty years since this word popery served such as brandish it about the ears of the government now, as an effectual engine to pull down the monarchy to the ground, to destroy episcopacy root and branch, and to rob the church, and almost all honest men, to the last farthing. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

On early Unitarian fears of 'popery': Nineteenth-century Unitarians had theological reasons to be wary of Catholicism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Glorious ­Revolution is often seen as a clash ­between ­ "popery" — the term for authoritarian ­Catholicism — and ­ancient English liberties. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In assembly elections last November, the erstwhile mainstream parties were beaten by the hard-liners -- Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, and the DUP, led by the loyalist, anti - "popery" firebrand Ian Paisley. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hamilton inveighs against "popery" in some of his early political pamphlets. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the Puritan Parliament brough Laud to trial in 1641, the statue was pointed to as evidence of his 'popery'. ❋ Burke's Corner (2007)

On early Unitarian fears of 'popery' 1.30.06 — 19th-century Unitarians had theological reasons to be wary of Catholicism ❋ Unknown (2006)

He requires a blind devotion to the image of his hidden brow, and this blind devotion plays into possible Protestant fears about the fanaticism of "popery" and of what might lurk beneath the Irish mantle. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The dread of what they term "popery" is a deep and engrossing passion in the hearts of the lower and even of the middle classes, and it formed an effectual barrier against the restoration of the Stuarts. ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

In the Commons he was attacked as the promoter of the French alliance, of "popery" and arbitrary government. ❋ Various (N/A)

Since many of the adherents of this political group were Dissenters, whose dislike of Anglicanism was exceeded only by their hatred of "popery," the whole party was called by a nickname -- "Whig" -- which had formerly been applied to rebellious ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

The movement was marked (1) by a virulent hatred for even the most trivial forms reminiscent of "popery," as the Roman Catholic religion was called; and (2) by a tendency to place emphasis upon the spirit of the ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

Day, 1814, in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, by a certain minister who went out of his way to attack what he called "popery". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But he underestimated two difficulties, the hatred of the dissenters for "popery" and their distrust of royal absolutism. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"No [Popery]!" screamed [the Rev]. [Paisley]. ❋ Octopod (2004)

"This [wrench] is [popery]" "This [assignment] is just popery" ❋ Popery101 (2022)