Whore of Babylon
Whore of Babylon derogatory name for the Roman Catholic Church, first recorded in Tyndale's The Practyse of Prelates (1530), where it is applied to the Pope; originally with biblical allusion to Revelation 17:1 and 17:5–6.
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