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Recent Examples of atheistic
His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website.
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ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
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Jacqui Frost,
The Conversation,
11 Jan. 2024
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
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Jacqui Frost,
The Conversation,
11 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for atheistic
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Edwards and Colston were agnostic about betting, but pitched the fund as an alternative.
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Brand-agnostic buyers with no switching costs.
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Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
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The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
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These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
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What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
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Because materialism had an irreligious connotation, Hattem says it was left out of the national conversation until the Gilded Age of the 1920s, when people start saying the quiet part out loud.
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This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.
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Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.
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This way of approaching the story would help make its portrait of Jesus all the more human, and, to some, all the more blasphemous.
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Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.
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While no formal announcement has been made to update its longstanding alcohol ban, Andrew Leber of Tulane University said this is in line with the Kingdom’s past approach to such potentially impious reforms.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
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The movie had an irreverent spark that felt refreshing, fueling its buoyancy and pumping blood to its ample heart.
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In the 14th century, Bibles in English became associated with John Wycliffe, a priest who criticized corruption in the Catholic Church, and whose views on Holy Communion the church had declared heretical.
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This point can sound almost heretical in modern healthcare discourse, where prevention is frequently framed as both morally superior and financially inevitable.
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“Atheistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheistic. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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