nonbelieving

As a nonbelieving American, I’m put off, to say the least, by the reference to God in the pledge.

Cuomo argued that he protected his right to be Catholic by preserving others’ rights to be Jewish, Protestant, nonbelieving or anything else.

He sent beheading videos to his girlfriend, the authorities said, suggesting that she kill her nonbelieving parents.

And there is this: Almost from the start I saw that ballet would fulfill a longing I’d had as far back as I could remember, a longing that accounts for the pleasure I take in hosting and leading a Passover Seder although I am a firmly nonbelieving Jew, a longing that expresses itself in how much I have always envied my poet friends their sonnets and villanelles and ghazals.

“Becoming completely nonbelieving, that’s a major rupture.”