lily white
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I think I get your overall point, but I don't believe it is fully fitting to characterize Evangelicalism as "the lily white religion."
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Night, guardian of dreams, Now wanders through the land; The moon, a lily white, Blossoms within her hand.
From Poems by Rilke, Rainer Maria
For she herself had trod Sicilian fields, �94She knew the Dorian water's gush divine,� 95She knew each lily white which Enna yields, �96Each rose with blushing face�; �97She loved the Dorian pipe, the Dorian strain.�
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew