| The surplice was the badge of priestcraft, and he thanked God he was not a priest. |
| But Mr. Paine was the inveterate enemy to priestcraft as well as kingcraft. |
| 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. |
| He admired Jesus as a moral teacher but like many of America's revolutionaries, he had a visceral loathing for priestcraft. |
| Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either. |
| They learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft, having acquired something of each. |
