neo-pagan

noun

Definition of neo-pagannext
as in non-Christian

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  1. non-Christian
  2. pagan
  3. atheist
  4. non-Muslim
Noun
  • Is there a better balance to be found than obtained here between a realist concern for the national interest and a decent respect for human life, including brown, non-Christian life?
    Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Many other Christian and non-Christian religions do not share those beliefs.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2024
Definition of non-Christian
Noun
  • Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 10 Nov. 2017
  • While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
Definition of pagan
Noun
  • Some in the family—which is very loyal to Hezbollah—said Hamoudi seemed almost an atheist.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Many of them reported regularly reading online materials and watching YouTube videos of other atheists and skeptics.
    Darren E. Sherkat, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2015
Definition of atheist
Noun
  • Iranian officials told Newsweek that their intelligence services would be more likely to recruit non-Muslim individuals without links to Iran as Israeli officials accuse the Islamic Republic of cultivating spy rings in anticipation of future attacks.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • As non-Muslim subjects, most Armenians, who adhered to the Armenian Apostolic Church, were granted limited autonomy in exchange for paying a special tax in addition to other conditions.
    Türkay Salim Nefes, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of non-Muslim
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