as in atheistical
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
raised in an irreligious family where the subject of God was never even discussed
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Recent Examples of irreligious
The regional and Wordsum difference remains even among those who are fundamentalists or irreligious.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
Please note that ~20% of the population rejects an afterlife, a higher proportion than those who are irreligious, or atheists or agnostics.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
Similarly, Catholics have been the biggest contributors in the past decade to the irreligious segment of Americans.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
Conservative religiosity is of course not a requirement for autocracy – just look at the previous era of Russian autocracy, which was decidedly irreligious.
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
Please note that ~20% of the population rejects an afterlife, a higher proportion than those who are irreligious, or atheists or agnostics.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
Similarly, Catholics have been the biggest contributors in the past decade to the irreligious segment of Americans.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
Conservative religiosity is of course not a requirement for autocracy – just look at the previous era of Russian autocracy, which was decidedly irreligious.
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreligious
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Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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According to the lawsuit, the TDCJ had previously allowed employees to wear head coverings for both religious and nonreligious purposes — including baseball caps.Serena Lin, Austin American-Statesman, 3 May 2024
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The parallel state is widening its social base beyond Islamists to nonreligious nationalists, in an attempt to co-opt the growing influence of those who despise the official and selective imposition of Islamic law.Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2021
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
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Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Irreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreligious. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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