How to Use anti-religious in a Sentence

anti-religious

adjective
  • The title felt neither too pro- or too anti-religious.
    Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
  • Critics have portrayed the idea as anti-religious and ahistorical ever since the Supreme Court embraced it in 1947.
    Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • His son, her father, wrote and disseminated anti-religious propaganda.
    Andrew Fedorov, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
  • There was widespread speculation that the shooter at the Covenant School, who had previously been a student there, was motivated by anti-religious resentment.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Because of its associations with the church, this music was ideologically fraught in an anti-religious Soviet Estonia.
    Jeffers Engelhardt, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The September attack at a Michigan church in which a gunman opened fire and set the building ablaze was motivated by anti-religious beliefs, the FBI announced Friday.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Religion in Soviet Kazakhstan The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the imperial government, ushered in a period of severe anti-religious persecution.
    J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2022

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