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Recent Examples of paganism
Despite its allegorical significance about paganism, the snake myth has persisted unquestioned.
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Gemma Allen, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
In addition to communicating language, some runes also had a mythological connection, being linked with deities in Germanic paganism.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Up until the 5th century, these types of precious metal amulets typically exhibited influences from other faiths and belief systems, including Judaism and paganism.
—Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Gemma Allen, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
In addition to communicating language, some runes also had a mythological connection, being linked with deities in Germanic paganism.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2025
All across Central Europe, a fascination with runes and folk magic aligns with both right-wing xenophobia and left-wing paganism.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Up until the 5th century, these types of precious metal amulets typically exhibited influences from other faiths and belief systems, including Judaism and paganism.
—Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paganism
Noun
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The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Sep. 2025
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In 1520 Luther himself had written a short but powerful tract, one of the three great Reformation writings from that year setting out his theology, titled The Freedom of a Christian.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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For instance, according to Alawite beliefs, Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is a divine manifestation of God, which challenges the idea of strict monotheism central to Sunni Islam.—
Güneş Murat Tezcür,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).—
Louis Menand,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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If anyone is wondering, stoicism and pantheism are my preferred lenses through to view the world.—
Christa Allen,
Allure,
28 May 2021
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The Chinese Communists aren’t trying to extirpate every last trace of theism, thereby inviting the undivided opposition of religious believers and institutions (as the Soviets did with regard to John Paul II’s Vatican).—
Cameron Hilditch,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2021
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Thoreau moves fluidly between the two, shuttling between the divine and the here-and-now, between theism and materialism.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
13 July 2017
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The destruction of the doctrine led directly to the creation of the right-wing talk-radio program The Rush Limbaugh Show the next year and, less than a decade later, of Fox News — a political movement giving direct rise to a fiercely partisan and sometimes fact-agnostic right-wing media.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Sep. 2025
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The likely resolution lies in the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers.—
Tom Campbell,
Oc Register,
24 Sep. 2025
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This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2022
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Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.—
Jeffrey Collins,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2021
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Leninism as a living mobilizational ideology had run its revolutionary course and was now the stale dogma of the lip-service state.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Data against dogma After Trump shared his personal feelings about vaccines, the American Academy of Pediatrics rushed to release a statement, first refuting any link between vaccines and autism and then warning against spacing out vaccine doses.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Paganism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paganism. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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