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However, the group is often met with pushback from Christians, who view Satanism as an illegitimate religion and a blasphemous group that should not be entitled to First Amendment protections.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024 -
The images, which many Muslims considered blasphemous, were at the heart of the controversy that led to Paty's death.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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For The Win's daily sports newsletter pairs the latest news from around the sports world with the smartest − yet somewhat irreverent – takes from FTW's staff.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
13 Jan. 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival—poised to run from January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah—finds the beloved mountainside showcase at its most idiosyncratic: starry, of course, but also independently minded, irreverent, and often delightfully weird.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
11 Jan. 2025
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But the French debate over whether to show images of Muhammad, which many Muslims view as sacrilegious, is still being waged today.—
Colette Davidson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Jan. 2025
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Griswold—whose father, once the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, consecrated the denomination’s first openly gay bishop—treats the pastors generously, though gingerly, constructing from their lowest moments an affecting study of sacred life in sacrilegious times.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.—
James Wood,
The New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2023
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Chen describes himself as a relative value investor who is agnostic of asset classes and leverages everything under the sun.—
Sergei Klebnikov,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Nobody Wants This — which explored the unconventional romance between an agnostic podcaster Joanne (Bell) and a rabbi named Noah (Adam Brody) — was nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.—
Kristine Phillips,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Nov. 2024
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There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Each checkpoint starts and ends in the middle of the ocean on the Sinister, which means an ungodly amount of swimming.—
Emma Sharpe,
Vulture,
1 Jan. 2025
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The dreadful inscribing machine and its ungodly purpose are described in meticulous detail—their spectacular efficiency and even more spectacular collapse.—
Joy Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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An unholy chatter fills the soundtrack and what appears to be dozens upon dozens of shiny black bugs squirming and gnashing as each other.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Art and commerce are unholy bedfellows, and nowhere more so than in the music industry — never a savory business, not in the mob days and not now.—
Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Profanatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profanatory. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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