| The surplice was the badge of priestcraft, and he thanked God he was not a priest. |
| Among the great Mughals, Akbar attempted in 1581 to promulgate a new religion, Dīn-e Ilāhī, which was to be based on reason and ethical teachings common to all religions and which was to be free from priestcraft. |
| As Part Two evinced, Paine was much more than a talented popularizer of advanced ideas, a megaphone for the enlightenment project against kingcraft, lordcraft and priestcraft. |
| But Mr. Paine was the inveterate enemy to priestcraft as well as kingcraft. |
| Furthermore, through their imagistic power, they seek to shatter the ideological illusions propagated by priestcraft and kingcraft. |
| It soon became the test of Teutonic patriotism to resist Italian priestcraft. |
