Bible-bashing

[Charles Doyle]

Doesn't BAITING carry a sense of 'provoking' that BASHING lacks?

--Charlie
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>I wonder when the earlier "-baiting" (with recipients being bears, Jews, and Reds/Commies, inter alia) turned into "-bashing".  And why.
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>LH

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