faithist 

A person who discriminates towards a person or group of people solely dependent on their faith, beliefs or religion.
- Used in place of racist when applicable.

Person one - "Jews are so cheap."
Person two - "Why do you have to be a faithist?"

"Mr. Jones says all Catholics are drunks... he is a straight up faithist."

faithist by Randy D. January 9, 2008

Faithist 

faithist (noun)
/ˈfeɪθ-ɪst/

1. A person who relies on faith-based reasoning to assert authority or superiority, often in a dismissive, coercive, or absolutist manner.
2. An individual who uses religious or belief-driven language as a substitute for evidence, nuance, or dialogue — frequently as a form of moral dominance.

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Usage Notes:

Typically pejorative.

Not synonymous with "person of faith" — a faithist imposes their belief as unquestionable truth.

May exhibit certainty-as-virtue and humility-as-weakness behaviors.

Often enters conversations with "I believe..." followed by universal claims or judgments.

Related Terms:

faithism (noun)
The worldview or behavior pattern of prioritizing belief over dialogue, coercion over consent, and dogma over exploration.

faithsplain (verb)
To explain something with excessive reliance on religious belief as fact, usually while dismissing science, reason, or lived experience.

“He started faithsplaining the universe like he invented it.”

faithflex-flexing (verb)
Subtly or overtly asserting superiority by displaying piety, religious knowledge, or divine alignment in social situations.

“She wasn’t praying — she was faithflexing"

Example:

“I tried talking to them about it, but they went full faithist and told me I’d go to hell if I disagreed.”

Faithist by Gabonga June 23, 2025

faithist 

noun
/ˈfeɪθɪst/
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Plural: faithists
Derived from: faith + -ist
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Definitions:
1. A person who discriminates against or shows prejudice toward individuals or groups based on their religion, spiritual beliefs, or lack thereof.
> “The law prohibits employers from acting as faithists when hiring—religious affiliation should have no bearing on the job.”
2. (rare, informal) A person who holds blind, uncritical allegiance to faith-based ideology, often rejecting reason, evidence, or inquiry.
> “You can’t argue with a faithist; they’ve already decided that facts are optional.”
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Usage Notes:
Faithist is religion-neutral. It can refer to discrimination against the religious (e.g., an atheist mocking believers), by the religious (e.g., a Christian denouncing non-Christians), or across faiths (e.g., sectarian violence on Muslims over Hindus).
It also applies to those who hold faith as infallible, rejecting dissent, science, or critical thinking.
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Synonyms:
Religious bigot
Sectarian (contextual)
Theocratic supremacist
Spiritual supremacist

Antonyms:
Pluralist
Tolerant
Secular
Rationalist
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Etymology:
faith (Middle English feith, from Anglo-French feid, from Latin fides)
+
-ist (a suffix forming agent nouns from verbs or nouns, denoting adherents, advocates, or practitioners)

That government policy was blatantly faithist, favoring one religion’s values while suppressing another’s.

faithist by indianigga July 28, 2025

faitheist

An atheist who is "soft" on religious belief, and tolerant of even the worst intellectual and moral excesses of religion: atheist accommodationist.

A lot of leftist faitheists say, "I'm not religious, but we shouldn't criticize the Muslim oppression of women because it's a sincere religious belief.

faitheist by The Barefoot Bum July 17, 2009

faithism 

An idea that your faith or religious belief is superiour to other religious beliefs or faiths and that it must be spread either pacifically by migration and high birth rates or violently by holy wars. It also means that faithists, people who consider their religion most truthful, will use manipulative techniques to either lie about their intentions or openly suppress minority religions leading to enslavement or genocides in some cases.

Faithism is racism for religions.

faithism by googlepunisher1488 October 23, 2016

Systemic Faithism 

Systemic Fathism refers to the ways that cultural, systems, structures, and institutions directly and consciously promote Faith to sustain or entrench differential (dis)advantage for an individual or group.

“Scripture states that a person can only serve one Master, there is no such thing as “God & Country”, thus the promotion of God & Country is Systemic faithism.”

Systemic Faithism by AMerican Ethnic October 3, 2020

Faithiest 

A theist who's religious persuasion relies solely on faith, regardless of evidence or reason.

I showed her how science disproved every religious argument she had, but she still believes. What a faithiest!

Faithiest by Ecce Homo March 8, 2009