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When the rain ends a drought, an atheist can feel grateful that the tomatoes will survive.

— Mark Schroeder, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
Her insights into Maher being a longstanding atheist were a good link back to Twain.

— Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026

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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.

— Gerard Baker, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
Today Unitarianism is predominantly a non-Christian denomination, with about a half and half split between 'humanist' and 'theist' Unitarians.

— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2011

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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.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
Among those cut was the Unitarian Universalist Association (others were atheists, pagans and Wiccans).

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026

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Democrats looking for a way to reclaim their party can find inspiration in the career of Neil Kinnock, who in the mid-1980s rescued the British Labour Party from a determined band of sectarian zealots.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
Not so long ago, a liberal Zionist might join forces with a zealot like Chuck Schumer in trying to defeat someone like El-Sayed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

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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.

— 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

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In Arabic the word kafir or kaffir has been used to refer to infidels, or non-believers in Islam.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
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.

— George Packer, The Atlantic, 13 May 2026

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