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Among the seven people Kennedy appointed as replacements are several like-minded vaccine skeptics and two persons with limited if any vaccine expertise.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Ladapo, the DeSantis administration’s most frequent vocal skeptic of vaccines, wears numerous hats in Florida.—
Kirby Wilson,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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As agnostics, we are also intrigued by the return of certain humanitarian values to Catholicism under Pope Francis — the idea of the Church as a place for the outcast.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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But that subgenre is far from the only religiously tinged music — created by everyone from devout evangelicals to open agnostics, from country artists to rappers — climbing the charts today; a number of pop songs are likewise courting the divine.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
8 July 2025
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Karen came from a big Catholic family; Greg was an atheist and, like many atheists, proud of it.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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To match Silicon Valley’s escalating rhetoric, AI skeptics have ramped up their own, like atheists heckling from the pews at Mass.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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