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Indeed, secular people in general exhibit an orientation that is markedly tolerant, democratic and universalistic – values Lennon holds up as ideals in "Imagine."

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2021

“If you ask George W Bush what is America, he would be like, ‘a universalistic, eternal force of democracy and capitalism for all times’.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2017

We must be on our guard, however, lest we exaggerate this pantheistic or universalistic influence.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward

Those who assert the universalistic character of the episode generally deny its authenticity; most of those who accept it as historical deny its universalism.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

Ever since the middle of the eighteenth century a sort of universalistic optimism, to which the individual is sacrificed, has obtained.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell