antireligious

(ˌæntɪrɪˈlɪdʒəs)

adj

opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations: antireligious propaganda.

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In the 18th century, antireligious ideas and sentiments started to creep in and by the early 20th century the government had de-Christianized the country, exiling and/or imprisoning priests and bishops, closing seminaries, confiscating church properties.

The core message of Fatima is repentance and prayer

The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell--a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut--rarely fails to surprise, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment.

The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell

The book is neither antireligious nor antigovernment; it simply presents the effects of the interactions between the two entities.

Faithonomics; Religion and the Free Market

The broadcast showed a whole rack of such "obscene" and "antireligious" material bearing the word "LOVE" in giant letters.

New campaign opposes clothes with Latin ABCs

Thus the neuroscientist Sam Harris, whose 2004 book The End of Faith launched his career as an antireligious polemicist, sees a direct and inextricable link between the holy book of Islam and the violence that has been such a prominent feature of the early years of the 21st century: "If you believe anything like what the Koran says you must believe in order to escape the fires of hell, you will, at the very least, be sympathetic with the actions of Osama bin Laden." (1)

Untangling the relationship between religion and violence

Anti-Muslim and antireligious sentiment as well as securitydriven treatment of Muslim citizens by governments would be counterproductive.

Muslims, we have to critically review our understanding of Islam

Floods are not all the work of God HAVING never ever allowed anyone to foist their religion, or antireligious views on me, I do show some empathy towards Eddie Sanders (Talkback, December 31).

Floods are not all the [...]

What allows for the continued connection--for the play to swing, as it were, between antireligious revenge polemic and religious allegory--is the very human body of the actor.

Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater

"It is, at once, an antireligious tale of apocalypse, and, chillingly, a fabulist version of our own times....

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

What Wilson and others have done is to dignify conventional antireligious sentiment by wrapping it in the language of science.

The Pope sets us straight

He traces the heightening antireligious sentiment during the French Revolution, interestingly noting how clerical figures, such as Abbe Sieyes, contributed to it.

Strehle, Stephen. The Dark Side of Church/State Separation: The French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and International Communism

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin recently denounced all antireligious assaults committed over the past months against holy sites during a visit to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem to express his Easter greetings to heads of the churches of Jerusalem.