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Recent Examples of atheism
Look, $100 million on initiatives like expanding atheism in Nepal.
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Linda Qiu, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Among his biggest criticisms is the discovery that a $500,000 grant to a humanist group may have been misused to promote atheism in Nepal and Asia while it was intended to promote religious freedom.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
The Italian frequently invoked his potentially incendiary political and religious beliefs (socialism and atheism) in his analyses, and almost never engages in the kind of de-escalatory coachspeak that permeates most MLS press conferences.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Linda Qiu, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Among his biggest criticisms is the discovery that a $500,000 grant to a humanist group may have been misused to promote atheism in Nepal and Asia while it was intended to promote religious freedom.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024
The Italian frequently invoked his potentially incendiary political and religious beliefs (socialism and atheism) in his analyses, and almost never engages in the kind of de-escalatory coachspeak that permeates most MLS press conferences.
—Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atheism
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In the United States, where various types of Protestantism used to be associated with elite culture, Catholicism has risen on the right, while various evangelical, and both Catholicism more tolerant nondenominational Christian churches, have grown, as opposed to more popular atheism or agnosticism.—
Christian Paz,
Vox,
25 Apr. 2025
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But this isn’t new: Environmentalists have had a deep legacy of inattention, or agnosticism, to the question of race.—
Jerel Ezell,
Time,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This problem of unbelief has plagued reformers for decades.—
Ervand Abrahamian,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2016
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The historical abnormality of modern-day unbelief was a theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s in the years before, during, and after his pontificate.—
Katherine Howell,
National Review,
30 Nov. 2023
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The two — who share son Jack, who is now 10, daughter Addy, 6, and son Hunter, 5 — were in disbelief at the news.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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One survivor, Mirtha Fuentes, told local media of her emotional disbelief after surviving the plane crash.—
Marlon Sorto,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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There is no doubt that not having to play the next day has its benefits.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 May 2025
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For subsumed within Lincoln’s willingness to accept the Chicago nomination was knowledge — perhaps without a doubt — of what actions by states were to come and what actions were morally right for the government to pursue.—
Michael Peregrine,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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“Atheism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheism. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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