Counterreligion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A religion that opposes another religion.

    "Secondary religions or counterreligions are duplicitous: they bear encrypted within themselves the paganism they ostensibly reject."

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"Secondary religions or counterreligions are duplicitous: they bear encrypted within themselves the paganism they ostensibly reject."

Etymology

From counter- + religion.

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