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Philistine
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Philistine

Member of a seafaring people of non-Semitic origin who founded city-states on the Palestinian coastal plain in the 12th century BC, adopting a Semitic language and religion.

At war with the Israelites in the 11th-10th centuries BC, they were largely absorbed into the kingdom of Israel under King David, about 1000 BC, and later came under Assyrian rule.
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Of course there are good and well-intended religious people, but this doesn't alter the fact that faith and belief in myths, miracles, revealed truth, and supernatural beings is anti-intellectual, antidemocratic, antiprogressive, and ultimately antihuman.
"Antagonistic Atheism" controversy by deKramer, Peter / The Humanist
Hofstadter railed against radical political activism, arguing that the evangelical movement was the crucible in which the anti-intellectual impulse was formed.
An historian's tale: Richard Hofstadter and the rise and fall of ... by Heilbrunn, Jacob / Washington Monthly
To prohibit science teachers from following their example seems to me an anti-intellectual, unprofessional restriction on their academic freedom.
The Great Debate by Groff, Patrick / District Administration
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