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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 -
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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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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The crowds, many dressed as druids and pagans, had gathered before dawn, waiting patiently in the dark and cold field in southwest England.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Dec. 2025
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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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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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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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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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Nothing can be done, at this point, about the dubious premise that mainstream Jews and gentiles in 2020s Los Angeles occupy separate social worlds.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Regardless of the bias in whatever racial or political agenda may be behind this nightmarish remake of Eugene O’Neil’s dark drama of societal miscreants, The Iceman Cometh, the ICE men are making sure their own approval rating melts, while doing damage to both commerce and community safety.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
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And, of course, Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, whose Shelby family of murderers and miscreants amassed such a cult following over six seasons that the series is getting its own movie in March.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Misbeliever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misbeliever. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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