1. Apologists "Apologists" is the term used historically in reference to Christian teachers from the second century to the fourth who wrote treatises defending their religion against charges of godlessness and immorality and usually ascribing these traits to their opponents.

2. The fear of Bolshevism with its godlessness, revolutionary terror, and expropriation of property, was combined with existing distrust, or hatred, of the Jews, particularly on the political right, to meld a very potent bogeyman that was influential in both political and religious circles.