neo-pagan

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Recent Examples of neo-pagan 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The group follows an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • No one ever converted an unbeliever with harshness, condemnation, and threats of hell.
    Sophia A. Nelson, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Neo-pagan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neo-pagan. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.

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