irreligious

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"Not only is this a sacred day, the most sacred in the Jewish calendar, but it's also a time of mass gathering, and the time when the Jewish community, however religious or irreligious, gathers together."

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” Elmihy said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

A Christmas Eve gathering might assemble irreligious friends, a meet-the-artist event at the shop might end up twice the size at her place.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2022

We’ve been denouncing religious intolerance, but I’m afraid many of us liberals have a problem with irreligious intolerance.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2020

Samuel James May, the famous abolitionist, was driven from the pulpit as irreligious, solely because of his attacks on slaveholding.3 Northern clergymen tried to induce “silver tongued” Wendell Philips to abandon his advocacy of abolition.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles