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Its political agnosticism is seen, uncommonly, as a merit for loftier aims.—
Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025 -
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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Taylor, the former county district attorney, said people viewed the Darrow statue as a symbol of atheism and anti-Christian beliefs.—
Kelly Puente,
The Tennessean,
12 July 2025
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The Middletown native was raised nominally evangelical and explored atheism before converting to Catholicism in 2019 at St. Gertrude Priory, which is attached to a Dominican parish in Madeira, about 12 miles northeast of Cincinnati.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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To those worried about an unchecked secularism, Dobson was a powerful agitator for his version of moral certitude and fundamentalist faith.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
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Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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