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The characters here, though, are nowhere near so smart as those conniving pagans and can only dream of outwitting the sophisticated folk from the mainland, coming there with their talk of cake, and comfy chairs, and their lies.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2026 -
According to the Pew Research Center, historically between one-third and one-half of Americans observe this pagan rite every year by making their own New Year’s resolutions.—
Bhumika Tharoor,
The Atlantic,
30 Dec. 2025
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Kelson is a man of science and an atheist, but not without a touch of mysticism.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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Gervais is famously an atheist and has received backlash for comments he’s made about the trans community.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Peppering dashes of humor into its brew of foreboding, the movie views the rise of an authoritarian movement through its effect on a family of unbelievers, covering a five-year period that begins in celebration and ends somewhere very different.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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No one ever converted an unbeliever with harshness, condemnation, and threats of hell.—
Sophia A. Nelson,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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For those infidels keeping score at home, exactly one year ago today, Carrnac gazed into his crystal ball and presciently predicted both the acquittal of Karen Read and the conviction of Tania Fernandes Anderson.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
31 Dec. 2025
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The group follows an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Dec. 2025
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Osgood’s book aims to make religious conversion intelligible to the nonbeliever; meanwhile, many of Ash’s sources resist this sort of intelligibility at every turn, fearing that a religion compatible with the secular world is not enough of a religion at all.—
Lauren Boersma Harris,
New Yorker,
24 Dec. 2025
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Excessive entanglement would affect the government's independence and potentially give religious adherents access to government not available to nonbelievers.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
28 Nov. 2025
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Posters on the platform often used the term in anti-Semitic ways, such as in the terms goyslop (unhealthy foods that these conspiracy theorists believed were a Jewish plot to hinder gentiles) and goycattle (the unthinking masses who are constantly being manipulated by Jewish people).—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2026
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The basic original recipe for latkes—grated potatoes formed into small cakes and fried—was similar to ones popular at the time among gentiles in Eastern Europe during the Christmas season.—
Joan Nathan,
Saveur,
4 Dec. 2025
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The Founding Fathers knew of the fate of the 3,000 idolaters who prayed at the golden calf while Moses conversed with God on Mount Sinai, and of the money-changers driven from the Temple by Jesus.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2024
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Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2024
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“Giaour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giaour. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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