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Recent Examples of secularist
The agency that comes with a liberal secularist society does not account for the structure that religion once provided in meaning-making.
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularist
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College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition.—
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Back in June 2025, Kennedy fired all 17 sitting members of the committee before the secretary began appointing new members, which included some vaccine skeptics, only a few days later.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Kelson is a man of science and an atheist, but not without a touch of mysticism.—
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Gervais is famously an atheist and has received backlash for comments he’s made about the trans community.—
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“Secularist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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