secularism
noun
sec·u·lar·ism
ˈse-kyə-lə-ˌri-zəm 
: indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations
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To those worried about an unchecked secularism, Dobson was a powerful agitator for his version of moral certitude and fundamentalist faith.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Politically, since its founding in 1981, the NCRI has demonstrated, as the broadest and longest-lasting political coalition in Iranian history, its readiness to cooperate with all political groups and currents committed to democracy, human rights, secularism, and a republican form of governance.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Despite its enthusiastic secularism, France remains tied in many ways to its Catholic heritage.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2025
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Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Politically, since its founding in 1981, the NCRI has demonstrated, as the broadest and longest-lasting political coalition in Iranian history, its readiness to cooperate with all political groups and currents committed to democracy, human rights, secularism, and a republican form of governance.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Despite its enthusiastic secularism, France remains tied in many ways to its Catholic heritage.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2025
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“Secularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secularism. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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secularism
noun
sec·u·lar·ism
ˈsek-yə-lə-ˌriz-əm
: the belief that religion and religious considerations should be ignored
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