irreligion

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I am going to point out that Sullivan is contrasting the validity of religion versus irreligion, based on the passion of the adherents to each set of beliefs.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2018

Even before the War of 1812, conservative ministers had pushed back against irreligion and immorality by fighting to preserve state funding for churches in Massachusetts and Connecticut, the last states to require it.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The climax of a rising tide of irreligion came in 1909, when a crowd in Tehran witnessed the public execution of a reactionary ayatollah who had opposed the constitutional revolution.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017

Eliot’s irreligion struck many of her contemporary readers as paradoxical.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2012

All these poets are religious:—the occasional irreligion of Virgil’s poetry is painful to the admirers of his general taste and delicacy.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David