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Split a religious group led by some bigot (6)

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I believe the answer is:

bisect

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'split' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a religious group led by some bigot' is the wordplay.
'a religious group' becomes 'sect' (I've seen this before).
'led by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'some bigot' becomes 'bi' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sect' put after 'bi' is 'BISECT'.

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(Other definitions for bisect that I've seen before include "Cut or divide in two" , "Halve (angle)" , "Divide into two equal parts" , "fork" , "equally split" .)

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