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There is a certain irony in that nearly all those cited were people of Christian faith — in order of appearance: practicing Catholic; passionate theist; committed Church of Scotland; and lifelong Lutheran.—
Denis Alexander,
Washington Post,
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This doesn't mean that more atheist societies are worse than more theist societies (e.g., Estonia vs. Romania).—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
20 Sep. 2011
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Other recent faith + higher ed news:Why Nashville's Belmont University is hiring non-Christian faculty and staff Also, Eastern Nazarene has been working for years on a draft of these teach-out agreements with the schools now accepting these transfer students.—
Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
8 July 2024
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Jewish families have been eating Chinese food on Christmas Day since the beginning of the 20th century when Jewish and Chinese immigrants were the two largest non-Christian communities in the United States.—
Reia Li,
The Arizona Republic,
18 Dec. 2024
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Her parents were half-Jewish, her father an atheist and her mother a seeker who dabbled in theosophy.—
Sheila Heti,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Sep. 2024
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Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter Robertson would make several more controversial comments over the years, slamming atheists and doubling down on his homophobic views.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Shoup was an advocate, even a zealot, for the wider understanding of a straightforward fact: Free parking is not free.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
11 Feb. 2025
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The war is being run by zealots who will measure their success by the sheer number of people deported.—
Letters to the editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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Of all the nearly 500 non-Muslim passengers on the train, only one man spoke up against what was happening, a former Yugoslav army officer named Tomo Buzov, an ethnic Croat and a Christian.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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As a result, there is a special prayer on Fridays at noon and most mosques don’t allow non-Muslim visitors during this time.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.—
Scott Shapiro,
WIRED,
8 Jan. 2024
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To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.—
Ian Buruma,
Harper's Magazine,
2 June 2023
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There are only two kinds of people in the world: the believer and the nonbeliever.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
23 Dec. 2024
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But in reality, those arrested were deemed kafirs, or nonbelievers.—
Vera Mironova,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2017
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“Polytheist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polytheist. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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