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Recent Examples of secularism
Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy.
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The Seven Mountains Mandate was popularized by theologian Francis Schaeffer, who linked it to a larger critique of secularism and liberal culture.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 8 July 2025
Politically, since its founding in 1981, the NCRI has demonstrated, as the broadest and longest-lasting political coalition in Iranian history, its readiness to cooperate with all political groups and currents committed to democracy, human rights, secularism, and a republican form of governance.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Despite its enthusiastic secularism, France remains tied in many ways to its Catholic heritage.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2025
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Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
The Seven Mountains Mandate was popularized by theologian Francis Schaeffer, who linked it to a larger critique of secularism and liberal culture.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 8 July 2025
Politically, since its founding in 1981, the NCRI has demonstrated, as the broadest and longest-lasting political coalition in Iranian history, its readiness to cooperate with all political groups and currents committed to democracy, human rights, secularism, and a republican form of governance.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Despite its enthusiastic secularism, France remains tied in many ways to its Catholic heritage.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularism
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Taylor, the former county district attorney, said people viewed the Darrow statue as a symbol of atheism and anti-Christian beliefs.—
Kelly Puente,
The Tennessean,
12 July 2025
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The Middletown native was raised nominally evangelical and explored atheism before converting to Catholicism in 2019 at St. Gertrude Priory, which is attached to a Dominican parish in Madeira, about 12 miles northeast of Cincinnati.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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But the indirect benefits seem to reflect a posture against green energy, related to unbelief in climate change, and these lead to support for inefficient energy alternatives like nuclear and geothermal and gas-fired turbines.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The historical abnormality of modern-day unbelief was a theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s in the years before, during, and after his pontificate.—
Katherine Howell,
National Review,
30 Nov. 2023
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“Secularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularism. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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