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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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There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran.
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Philosophical critics and subsequent scientific inquiry heaped doubt on Kant’s objectivism, and advancing secularism rendered for many his theist explanation for the morally reasoning immortal soul somewhat antique.
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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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Garrett says the new protocols acknowledge that academic institutions have the responsibility to take steps for the safety of their researchers and protect them from potentially dangerous interactions with conspiracy theorists and other reactionary zealots.
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However, Lee is no legalistic, zealot for the cause.
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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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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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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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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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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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“Polytheist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polytheist. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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