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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, 17 Mar. 2023
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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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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
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Many other Christian and non-Christian religions do not share those beliefs.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2024
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One survey of 2,561 DMT users found that more than half who identified as atheists before their DMT trips no longer identified as atheist afterward.Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even atheists would have no trouble identifying Maarten de Vos’s bearded old man as Yahweh.Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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But today, a President Harris would have supine leftist zealots, such as Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), eager to do the bidding of their dear White House leader.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But sometimes conscience demands that even we zealots of the future take stock.Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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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To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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For the believers and nonbelievers, the Pentagon answered whether UFOs or aliens have ever visited Earth, saying there is no evidence.Greg Wehner, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Polytheist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polytheist. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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