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Sound Like Someone we know? And here we were thinking they were called Scholars!!! However their actions confirm them to be Iconoclasts who just happen to have degreees.

Iconoclast: 1. A breaker or destroyer of images esp. those set up for religious veberation.

2. One who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions etc. as being based on error or superstition.

Source:From Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary (Print Version)

Etymology: Medieval Latin iconoclastes, from Middle Greek eikonoklastEs, literally, image destroyer, from Greek eikono- + klan to break

And from online dictionaries:

American Heritage Dictionary -

i·con·o·clast (-kn-klst)

n.

One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.

One who destroys sacred religious images.

[French iconoclaste, from Medieval Greek eikonoklasts, smasher of religious images : eikono-, icono- + Greek -klasts, breaker (from Greek kln, klas-, to break).]

WordNet - Cite This Source

iconoclast.

iconoclast n : someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions

 

 

 

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