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At a time when death metal bands are experimenting with new age and hardcore bands are embracing pop, Agriculture stand out by making their genre agnosticism feel proudly coherent, like these sounds were always meant to coexist.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Its political agnosticism is seen, uncommonly, as a merit for loftier aims.—
Chris R. Morgan,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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At the same time, evangelists of a robust atheism—figures such as the biologist Richard Dawkins, the critic Christopher Hitchens, and the neuroscientist Sam Harris—toured the country offending salt-of-the-earth Americans with their contempt for religious belief.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Although atheism is often associated with hyperrationality, this form of it is unapologetically irrational.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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The 1979 revolution led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic, which clamped down on secularism.—
Alexandria Burris,
IndyStar,
23 Mar. 2026
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The answer, by and large, turns out to be secularism.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Know-nothingism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/know-nothingism. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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