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Indifferent or hostile to religion, or having no religious beliefs.
‘an irreligious man’
‘The Czech Republic is largely irreligious, but the Slovak Republic is predominantly Roman Catholic.’
‘People, religious and irreligious, are correct to insist that we practise what we preach.’
‘When three fourths of the whole world become irreligious, the situation is converted into hell for the animals.’
‘Shetland is the most irreligious place in the UK.’
‘Twenty years later, Justice Joseph Story likewise wrote that a father could lose his rights for ‘atheistical and irreligious principles.’’
‘There are those who take the cover of religion to commit irreligious acts.’
‘Apparently it's a book of ‘extraordinary power’ which Dr. Williams hopes will spread ‘in epidemic profusion through religious and irreligious alike’.’
‘Nietzsche was perhaps the most colorful of the irreligious critics of the modern hopes for an individualistic morality that is applicable to all.’
‘Between a religious person and irreligious person there are many common meeting points which we require to explore ’, he observed.’
‘Our differences - male or female, religious or irreligious, rich or poor - matter not at all.’
‘A traditionalist might easily jump to the conclusion that the show's second half is irreligious.’
‘I have many friends, both deeply religious and deeply irreligious, whom I much respect.’
‘The danger is not religion but fanaticism, which can equally be displayed by atheist communists and by irreligious nationalists.’
‘Does that mean that they're irreligious or are they not spiritual?’
‘In an irreligious society, capital punishment teaches something else: that the state has absolute power over life.’
‘I am so irreligious that atheism seems a religion to me.’
‘I have described the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia as a religious war fought by irreligious people.’
‘Governments gradually granted equal civil status to those holding a variety of religious and irreligious beliefs - a key condition for creating secular states.’
‘Peter said that the drama, shot in a documentary style, was more irreligious than religious.’
‘Even if a person has left the Jewish fold, or is completely irreligious, it is still forbidden to help or cause him to sin.’