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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 -
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
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There are no options for atheism or traditional folk religions, even though millions of Indonesians incorporate such beliefs into their religious life.—
Lindsey McGinnis,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2025
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During the Cold War, the church pitted itself against Soviet atheism; the Polish pope John Paul II, for instance, worked to undermine communist rule in Poland.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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One of the things Catholic leaders tend to attribute this drop in attendance to is a broader trend of secularism.—
Maureen K. Day,
The Conversation,
7 May 2025
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An African cardinal from Guinea, Sarah, 79, is viewed as a spiritual and theological standard-bearer for conservative Catholics, as critics of Francis have argued the late pope was too heavily influenced by modern secularism.—
Danielle Wallace,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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