irreligion
Example Sentences
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I am going to point out that Sullivan is contrasting the validity of religion versus irreligion, based on the passion of the adherents to each set of beliefs.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2018
Even before the War of 1812, conservative ministers had pushed back against irreligion and immorality by fighting to preserve state funding for churches in Massachusetts and Connecticut, the last states to require it.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The climax of a rising tide of irreligion came in 1909, when a crowd in Tehran witnessed the public execution of a reactionary ayatollah who had opposed the constitutional revolution.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2017
Eliot’s irreligion struck many of her contemporary readers as paradoxical.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2012
That irreligion does not tend toward assurance of immortality I regard as an incontrovertible position.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue
