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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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But in his first homily on Friday since being made leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo highlighted the church’s fight against rising atheism.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2025
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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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In the past, India’s commitment to secularism and democracy stood in sharp contrast to Pakistan’s religious orientation and military dictatorship.—
Vaibhav Vats,
The Atlantic,
8 May 2025
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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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