God-botherer

God botherer English Noun en God botherer. 1 November 2005 David Ward A choice in the wilderness https://web.archive.org/web/20130829195129/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/02/socialexclusion.guardiansocietysupplement Gary Bishop suggests that he and his team were not dismissed as a bunch of interfering God-botherers because of the way they started up: quietly, no banners, no choruses of What A Friend We Have In Jesus, no fanfares from a Salvation Army band. They talked to anyone who happened to be around. 20 August 2009 w:Paul Theroux Happily a State, Forever an Island https://web.archive.org/web/20120219131415/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/opinion/21theroux.html Public intellectuals do not exist; public debate is rare, except on issues that transgress religious dogma. Hawaii is noted for its multitude of contentious God-botherers. 15 January 2020 Skylar Baker-Jordan As a gay Christian, I'm so glad to see Pete Buttigieg reclaiming religion from the far right https://web.archive.org/web/20200323164119/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pete-buttigieg-gay-religion-christian-democratic-debate-2020-election-a9285516.html I didn’t grow up religious, and even now I’m nervous to tell my old-school lefty grandfather — who has never had much time for God-botherers — that his gay, progressive grandson starts every morning with black coffee and Bible study.