secularist
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Fervent supporters saw it as just reward for a leader who put Islamic teachings back at the core of public life in a country with a strong secularist tradition, and championed the pious working classes.
From Reuters ● May 14, 2023
A six-party opposition coalition known as the Nation Alliance has united behind the candidacy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularist Republican People’s Party.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
While most pop songs are secular by default – in that they are about the things of this world, making no mention of the divine or spiritual – "Imagine" is explicitly secularist.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
Five seemed to have selected each his own hymn without consultation with his fellows; the sixth, probably a secularist, had fallen back upon "The Men of Harlech."
From Adventures of Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
“Bible scholars and secularists both have wondered why the final world conflict would take place in a country no bigger than the size of New Jersey,” Mr. Jeffress said in a telephone interview.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Bazzi was born in a Shiite Muslim community in south Lebanon; his parents were secularists who never went to mosque.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
When she was young, she said, she had faced constant harassment from secularists and couldn’t get a university education because of her religious convictions— until Erdogan came along.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2023
To build his support, Mr. Kilicdaroglu pulled together six parties that include right-wing nationalists, staunch secularists and Islamists, a feat in itself.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
These secularists have now ceased to exercise any influence, and the Freethought societies, at one time so numerous, have now practically disappeared.
From Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy by Austin Lewis
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