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Recent Examples of secularism
To those worried about an unchecked secularism, Dobson was a powerful agitator for his version of moral certitude and fundamentalist faith.
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Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
In 2002, the NCRI proposed the National Solidarity Plan, urging all political currents and groups to unite around three principles: regime overthrow, democratic republic, and secularism.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
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Philip Elliott, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
In 2002, the NCRI proposed the National Solidarity Plan, urging all political currents and groups to unite around three principles: regime overthrow, democratic republic, and secularism.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularism
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On Monday, Turning Point USA brought its traveling roadshow of conspicuous Christian conservatism to its bête noire: UC Berkeley, aka ground zero for anarchism, anti-fascism, antisemitism, atheism, communism, transgenderism, etcetera, etcetera.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
14 Nov. 2025
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Multiple people accused him of outspoken atheism, a transgression then punishable by death.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 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 17 Jan. 2026.
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