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Recent Examples of neo-pagan
As journalist Margot Adler has shown, some neo-pagans believe that ancient societies that worshipped mother deities were more peaceful than cultures with patriarchal religious traditions.
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Marie-Claire Beaulieu,
The Conversation,
5 May 2026
The ultimate goal, then, seems to be nothing less than the complete supplanting of MAGA with a new political movement—an angry, ultra-conspiratorial, unbiblical, neo-pagan movement of misfits and their hangers-on.
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Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Marie-Claire Beaulieu,
The Conversation,
5 May 2026
The ultimate goal, then, seems to be nothing less than the complete supplanting of MAGA with a new political movement—an angry, ultra-conspiratorial, unbiblical, neo-pagan movement of misfits and their hangers-on.
—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neo-pagan
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Veena had been an atheist with dreams of becoming a physicist.
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Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites.
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Whatever the explanation, thousands of people, many dressed as druids and pagans, will gather at the site on Sunday to see the sun rise.
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Among those cut was the Unitarian Universalist Association (others were atheists, pagans and Wiccans).
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Safia and Elham became enemies of a state that wanted to punish them for the actions of a Taliban regime in Kabul that regarded them as traitors and infidels.
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Sunni imams issued fatwas, legal condemnations by Islamic religious leaders, against us infidels.
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An idea could be forming despite unbelievers.
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Furthermore, Christianity was a proselytizing religion, which commanded its followers to bring unbelievers into the fold.
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That principle protects believers and nonbelievers alike.
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Such processions draw the faithful as well as droves of nonbelievers and tourists.
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“Neo-pagan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neo-pagan. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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