nonreligious

Example Sentences

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Lamarck’s science was indeed revolutionary for its time, emphasizing nonreligious materialism and imagining a version of evolutionary change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike,” he wrote.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

Raised in a conservative Jewish family, Carr said that today, he’s nonreligious: “I have no religion at all — I don’t know how to explain what I am.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

What may be surprising to folks in the Seattle area, though, is that the rest of Washington is nearly as nonreligious as Seattle.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

It is the same rhythmic pattern that drives the only popular nonreligious song of the early thirteenth century still known today: ‘Sumer is icumen in’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall