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Whether or not van Aelst was well versed in his time’s scientific and philosophical developments, his exacting attention to visual experience aligns him with a burgeoning age of skeptical, irreligious reason and scientific naturalism. Art Review: Willem van Aelst Still-Life Paintings at National Gallery 2012-08-10T04:50:08Z
Or is it an affront to the faithful, its makers so irreligious and "stupid" that they have destroyed the Christian thinking behind the books? All is well with Narnia 2010-12-13T16:22:00Z
The video backdrop was a bright, kaleidoscopic “light show” collaging religious imagery, classical paintings and highly irreligious imagery. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z
Roger is ordained from the “Universal Life Church,” a popular online ordination service, becoming more in practice as millions of millenials opt for irreligious weddings. Engagement season panic sets in: Before you plan a big expensive traditional wedding, read this 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z
Abraham paints an uneasy, uncertain, wound-tight Shylock who has internalized oppression while failing to absent himself from an irreligious but personally profitable world that measures human worth in pounds of unequal flesh. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z
La Fontaine was sometimes considered irreligious, too, and went to live in Paris, where he stayed for forty years. Paris Sirens 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z
“The idea of being irreligious and even atheist is spreading because of the contradiction between what Islamists say and what they do,” he said. Atheism explodes in Saudi Arabia (where just talking about atheism is illegal) 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
The Tea Party has only intensified social pressure on conservative-leaning Americans to shun anything perceived as irreligious or academic. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z
I could never turn into a healthy irreligious woman. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z
This includes the lived experience of religious deconversion, and the construction of irreligious morality, for example. Atheists are no less moral: The sad delusion of the Christian Evangelical movement 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z
I believe there’s something spiritual about the universe’s ability to create and sustain life, but that might just be a buffer between my irreligious self and the looming inevitability of death. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z
Speaking of “Hand to God,” Robert Askins' show filled with sex, puppetry and a devilishly irreligious message was thought to be polarizing from the minute it made the transfer from Off-Broadway this spring. Tony nominations 2015: Seven snubs and surprises 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z
On the other hand you had people that were largely irreligious, like Benjamin Franklin, who supported teaching religion because they thought it was good for the masses. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z
Cover the children’s ears—these songs are X-rated, in the irreligious sense of the word. Comma Queen: A Grammarian’s Xmas 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z
But even here, he admitted, the tenor grew so irreligious that in the end the show had to be moved out of the "God slot", as it was called, and into the regular schedules. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z
Though his biographers emphasize Jones’s strange childhood devotion to and obsession with the Bible—this despite his irreligious parents—they also record his long-standing commitment to achieving racial equality. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z
Until, that is, he too succumbs to the lures of Caroline Grant, despite her irreligious talk and her scandalous red bikini. 'The Beresfords': 'Mansfield Park,' 1980s edition 2012-07-12T17:39:03Z
Trump may be blatantly irreligious and Pence exotically devout, but our President and Vice-President come together quite well on their stated inability to resist women. Mike Pence’s Marriage and the Beliefs That Keep Women from Power 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z
“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” said Elmihy. Fearing ostracism or worse, many nonbelievers hide their views in the Middle East and North Africa 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z
But irreligious activists don’t just advocate for their specific causes; they have long pushed for other social justice issues like caste and gender equality. Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z
“It’s not the revolution that turned some into atheists or irreligious; the revolution gave them the freedom and courage to speak up,” Elmihy said. Fearing ostracism or worse, many nonbelievers hide their views in the Middle East and North Africa 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z
Yet the UK is now one of the most secular nations in the world - there's a great contradiction in the fact that a nation formed along religious lines is now very irreligious, he says. David Olusoga: ‘The UK is less equal than when I was young’ 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z
He is famous for writing poetry that was often controversial in its day, so much so that he was accused of being irreligious at the Seljuk court. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
The United States is increasingly irreligious, but until we relearn — on social media, in our politics, in person — that Erasmian courtesy, we shall not deserve to call ourselves humanists. Review | Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z
A Christmas Eve gathering might assemble irreligious friends, a meet-the-artist event at the shop might end up twice the size at her place. Appreciation: Celebrated bookseller and major L.A. art player Dagny Janss Corcoran dies at 77 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z
When the tour came to a church in San Marcos, Calif., this month, a local Methodist minister denounced it as an “irreligious abomination” in an opinion essay. A Crusade to Challenge the 2020 Election, Blessed by Church Leaders 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z
When Boebert, who describes herself as a “strong Christian woman,” made her irreligious comments about Omar, she was moving around the stage as if she was in the midst of a stand-up routine. Perspective | The exhausting, soul-sapping meanness of Lauren Boebert 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z
“The vaccination movement injecting into human bodies this material from an inferior animal was seen as irreligious, blasphemous and medically wrong.” The world’s first anti-vaccination movement spread fears of half-cow babies 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z
Such self-conscious and deliberatively irreligious people are to be distinguished from the lackadaisically unaffiliated — often called "nones" — who simply don't identify with a religion. Staunch atheists show higher morals than the proudly pious, from the pandemic to climate change 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z
We’ve been denouncing religious intolerance, but I’m afraid many of us liberals have a problem with irreligious intolerance. Opinion | Pastor, Can White Evangelicalism Be Saved? 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z
They'd also discover new evidence of Jefferson's irreligious nature from time to time, such as reports of his traveling on the Sabbath. How democracy beat back lies, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories — in 19th-century Connecticut 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z
I went to an Ivy League college, attended graduate school, built a writing career and married a man as irreligious as I am. Perspective | Prepping for coronavirus is just like prepping for Doomsday 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z
Right-wing politicians complain that their traditional cultures are undermined by a decadent and dangerous import from the irreligious West. Coke Ad Riles Hungary Conservatives, Part of Larger Gay Rights Battle 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z
What’s more, liberalism outlived alternative political systems in the 20th century, including religious or irreligious totalitarianism, that make it look utopian by comparison. Perspective | We’re in an anti-liberal moment. Liberals need better answers. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z
Although he would deny a purpose in any way irreligious, his commentary on his own translation, like the translation itself, is a study in the pleasures of what he calls “subtleties of style.” How to Read the Good Books 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z
He said those spreading the rumours about his health and identity were ''ignorant and irreligious.'' President denies being a body double 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z
Carter, as it happens, was raised “irreligious” and regards himself as “largely agnostic,” something he felt compelled to reveal in the fifth of his 15 tweet confessional. A Virginia politician’s novel approach to personal scandal: Tell all before opponents do 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z
He also called the bombing that killed well over 500 people an “irreligious” and “heartless” act. Somalia says ‘no’ to al-Shabab defector’s run for office 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z
"Such harsh and irreligious behaviours are below the dignity of any human being," she tweeted. Iran arrests official over public dancing 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z
For these economically insecure, irreligious white men, “the gun is a ubiquitous symbol of power and independence, two things white males are worried about,” says Froese. Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
This is an irreligious age - a fact brought home with weird clarity as a trumpeter plays Somewhere over the Rainbow through the celebration of Holy Communion. Brexit and a French wine brotherhood 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z
“Appellant references a CorePower Yoga advertisement, but that advertisement contains no discernible holiday, seasonal, religious, or irreligious content,” the trio of judges wrote. Federal appeals court upholds Metro’s ban on Christmas-themed ad, at least for now 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z
Her mother was chain-smoking, brash and outspoken, tattooed in a country where tattoos are considered irreligious, her head scarf askew to reveal henna-streaked hair. 11-Year-Old Has Spent Her Life in Jail, a Serial Killer as a Cellmate 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z
Her mother was chain-smoking, brash and outspoken, tattooed in a country where tattoos are considered irreligious, her headscarf akimbo to reveal henna-streaked hair. 11-year-old Afghan girl has been in prison since birth with her mother, a convicted killer 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z
But I can’t like, because what the president did was irreligious and irreverent. Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr a new civil rights leader takes center stage 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z
As an irreligious sometime pro-choice proponent of gun control, he was an implausible Republican champion. Superstition helps explain how people think about gun laws 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z
These early modern thinkers were not irreligious men; in fact, many of them were deeply pious, devoted to the Catholic or Reformed church. How to Fix American Stupidity 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z
Many who see Trump and his supporters as irreligious do not interpret the president’s remarks and behavior as strong, but rather immoral. Analysis | Trump threatened ‘fire and fury.’ Here’s why to some that’s perfectly God-like. 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z
This is not to say this is an irreligious show or it’s an anti-faith show. Ian McShane relishes playing an ancient god as a charismatic scamp who has faith in humanity 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z
His move to renounce the Taliban insurgency, calling it irreligious, plays to the interests of the Afghan government. What does Afghan warlord Hekmatyar's return mean? - BBC News 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z
“Trump may be blatantly irreligious and Pence exotically devout, but our President and Vice-President come together quite well in their stated inability to resist women.” Right and Left: Partisan Writing You Shouldn’t Miss 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z
The narrator, an irreligious, N.W.A.-loving child, has resorted to strapping a knife under his shirt for fear of the gangs of skinheads that stalk his Essex suburb, Southend. Can a Former Islamist Make It Cool to Be Moderate? 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z
In the decades following the American Revolution, religious freedom had many exponents, while irreligious freedom had far fewer. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
It is not surprising that memes are being produced that seek to depict the Muslim volunteers in his camp as irreligious and profane. Indonesia's Worsening Problem With Fake News 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z
If you are young and bright, it seems, you are more likely to be irreligious. Where is the world's most 'godless' city? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z
At one point, Islamic spiritual authorities decreed it irreligious to bury less than 40% of a body, further exacerbating the trauma for those believers trying to deal with fragments. Bringing up the bodies in Bosnia | Ed Vulliamy 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z
I reached out to Presswood to respond to Graham’s claim that since “the nonreligious population” is growing, that means the number of irreligious activists fighting reproductive rights is exploding as well. Hip to be square: Is there really a feminist, secular anti-choice movement? (Spoiler: no) 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z
Distrust of the irreligious runs deep in American history. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life. Villainy and visionaries: how Caravaggio’s followers saw the light 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z
Political extremism in Syria — the kind that combines irreligious sectarianism in the name of Islam with transnational terrorism — depends on Bashar al-Assad clinging to power. The Islamic State and Assad: Two sides of the same coin 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z
It’s in the moral air we breathe, in and out of church, religious and irreligious, in every culture, and has been always been. I’m a Christian radio host: Our music isn’t high art — but it’s just what people want. 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z
Comfort says he believes there’s scientific proof of God’s existence and that many atheists are irreligious because they weren’t shown enough love. Ambitious Atheists Aim for Huge D.C. Rally as Johnny Depp Bails from Pulpit 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z
The most he could offer the ungodly was a little hands-off forbearance: Prosecuting the irreligious, after all, often only called people’s attention to their blasphemies. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz, in most aspects, are two men who couldn’t be more different from each other: One is a hardline evangelical right winger and the other an irreligious democratic socialist. Where the campaigns of Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders meet: Examining the fatal flaw in their election strategies 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z
Surprisingly, though, it is the irreligious Trump who has done best among evangelical voters in carrying New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and he leads most polls ahead of Tuesday. Why Super Tuesday is so important to the presidential candidates in both parties 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z
Iowa, where 60% of Republican voters are evangelical Christians, had always seemed an awkward fit for an irreligious divorcee. Trump bumped 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z
Was that a religious or an irreligious thing to say? A Point of View: Why the world needs more sermons - BBC News 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z
While there may not be a religious test, there is an irreligious test, at least in public opinion. Belief in God remains mandatory for success in American politics 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z
Thousands of young Muslims from Western countries have heeded the bloodcurdling call of the Islamic State, leaving behind societies they see as decadent, hypocritical and irreligious to start new lives in a war zone. Ten years after 7/7 bombings, Britain is split over how to fight extremism 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z
Born to Jewish parents, he’s devoutly irreligious and fiercely liberal. Bernie Sanders Could Curb Hillary Clinton's Enthusiasm 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
The Guardian reports that a man speaking to the camera then aims to justify the acts, citing how they didn’t exist in the time of the Prophet Muhammad and were worshipped by irreligious people. Global Art Community Condemns ISIS Destruction of Artifacts at Mosul Museum 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z
Permitting legal space for blasphemy is inherent to free expression and to freedom of religion, which also means freedom for the rudely irreligious. The appeal of homicidal wedge politics presents a global challenge 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z
Some 26 percent profess no religious affiliation, twice the level of their boomer parents; they are twice as irreligious at their age as any previous generation. Our Father, Who Art In The Apple Store: The Decline Of Christmas And The Looming Tech Nightmare 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z
Over the succeeding generations, the extended family bitterly splintered into religious and irreligious factions. Brooklyn’s Lubavitch Community: A Culture Captured by the Ultimate Outsider 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z
Esteves’ group decided to hold its annual summer mission program in Portland because of the area’s irreligious leanings. Evangelical group sets sights on secular Portland 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z
A recent academic study concluded that, despite the fact that liberals increasingly view themselves as irreligious, liberals’ views are just as much based on some sense of deism as are conservatives’ – just different. American Politics Is Split On Morals, Not Religion 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z
All of a sudden, most of his peers were irreligious. Beliefs: Book Explores Ways Faith Is Kept, or Lost, Over Generations 2014-02-01T01:06:23Z
They were irreligious and with the exception of two, unpolitical. India Ink: A Conversation With: Author Adrian Levy 2013-12-06T07:44:18Z
At the very moment public trust in religious institutions is wavering, this irreligious movement is building an institution of its own. Doing church without God 2013-11-01T09:56:18Z
Furthermore, focusing on young people opens the group up to an increasingly irreligious demographic. Evangelical group sets sights on secular Portland 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z
Akkari and Laban had long been disaffected with life in Denmark, a country they saw as louche and irreligious. The Repentant Radical 2013-09-17T09:45:00Z
In a shrinking institution, the influx of female vicars is a rare positive – a bulwark against some deep irreligious social tides. Let bulwarks be bishops: women in the Church of England 2012-11-19T22:52:30Z
Socrates “was indicted as an irreligious man, a corrupter of youth, and an innovator in worship.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z
The attempt could never before have been made; for in Belgium, almost more than anywhere else, education had for two hundred years been seized by the state, and used to an irreligious purpose. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
The Catchpoles were not an irreligious family, though they could none of them read or write. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z
Every chaplain at the front tells us that the most careless and irreligious youths and men take up a wonderfully different attitude out there. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z
If any man be irreligious enough to accept Euclid’s axiom, he will be compelled to reject the miraculous feeding of 5,000 people with five loaves and two small fishes. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z
This was sufficient for the superstitious fear of the crew, who, clustering toward Nicholas, with one voice cried, "Over the side with the irreligious dog." The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z
But, it is equally notorious that they are often written as marketable commodities by grossly irreligious men. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z
Would it be irreligious to say, “Happy are the dead who die beloved?” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Your Lordship's opinions on this impolitic, irreligious, and thoroughly infamous species of prosecution have oft-times been expressed with the integrity and high moral courage that have ever distinguished your public life. The Trial of Henry Hetherington 2012-03-06T03:00:21.680Z
And it was not until 1799, after republican and irreligious France had set the example, that it was legally abolished.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z
We note constantly "the two Is´ra-els"—a spiritual minority and an irreligious, idolatrous mass. Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers 2012-03-01T03:00:24.783Z
Even in the Roman Catholic Church a large number of the leading divines were frankly deistic, nor were they for that reason regarded as irreligious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z
The prejudice was created almost entirely by religious, or rather irreligious, instruction. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z
The principle of unsectarian moral instruction, however, is neither irreligious nor anti-religious. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z
She must learn that the doctrine of self is irreligious. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z
He was a polished representative of the callous, secular middle class of that most irreligious age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z
In Arabic, this term loosely translates as “irreligious.” Opinion: The Empires Strike Back 2012-01-14T23:03:05Z
His philosophical studies would naturally stimulate his sceptical and irreligious dispositions, while his Mystic leanings would operate mainly in the contrary direction. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
Art, morals, science itself fade and waste away if this supreme inspiration be wanting to them; the irreligious soul expires as if from lack of breath. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z
It met its death at the hands of an irreligious half-caste, whose continued sanity after this sacrilegious deed was attributed to his foreign parentage. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z
It was said to go "hand in hand with atheism"; and several of the Episcopalian bishops, together with Cardinal Manning, opposed it as irreligious. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z
Moreover, all the Masonic lodges had entered into the contest; every morning the irreligious journals, denounced the Congregations as the great peril of the nation. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
It may be that the irreligious and Epicurean quatrains were written in youth, and the Munajat in his riper years. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
Get rid of this illusion, frivolous and irreligious man! Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z
The Dr. hath been of a loose, profligate, and irreligious life, as I have often heard. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z
Clergymen, like Transcendentalists, in England were generally conservative, or reactionary; and the friends of reform were much more irreligious than in America. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z
All discretion was at length thrown to the winds and doctrines irreligious and impious began to be taught openly and without reserve. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
It was one of those revealing moments when we see our proper place in the scheme; go past our truly irreligious thought: 'Man, hub of the Universe!' which has founded most religions. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z
There is really no predestination for irreligious souls. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z
Boast, if you will, of the laughter and merriment of irreligious men; sneer, if you will, at the gravity and seriousness, which appear in the demeanour of many Christians. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
The observance of Sunday as a day of rest from labour and business will be all the more popular as it is made precious to irreligious people. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z
They had imagined that the Pope would not dare to utter words of defiance against the fiat of an irreligious Bloc. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
Irreligiousness of Artists.—Homer is so much at home among his gods and is as a poet so good natured to them that he must have been profoundly irreligious. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z
Here we must say at once that no act is so irreligious as the resistance of progress. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
It is naturally irreligious, and must be renewed by the Holy Ghost. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z
I became very unhappy and miserable in my irreligious life, and found that serving the devil was hard. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z
The Cortes was filled with irreligious enemies of the Catholic name; it was these who set aside the concordat, from its first article to the last. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
He had heard of upright atheists; somehow she seemed to belong in that category with her moral, but irreligious chidings. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z
Christ's progressive labor carried further the Jewish faith and tenets which were religious before he came, but which became irreligious in resisting the further and finer conclusions to which he led. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z
In short, he will serve to make the latter still more irreligious. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z
Some worshipt nothing, naming it a god; 2560 Some deemed the mortal dust a thing divine; Religious, irreligious, bigotry, Each counted victims by the hecatomb. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z
Serrano was in control with a mob of irreligious ruffians gathered together from Paris and Brussels and filled with a mortal hatred of the Catholic religion. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
Not a few wonder how the English power continues to prosper amidst the daily perpetration of such irreligious acts. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z
On the other hand, every innovation in the sphere of doctrine is branded as irreligious. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z
It is not we, but those who oppose us, who are irreligious. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z
And since it is ours, we may, meeting with the same measure, declare its contemners to be themselves frivolous and irreligious. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z
The laws were penetrated more and more with an irreligious spirit. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
Persecuted by the irreligious mob, the rationalist clergy, and sometimes by the authorities, they by-and-by secured representatives among the younger clergy and in the university chairs, and carried on vigorous missions at home and abroad. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z
Thus Luther was deemed irreligious by the Catholics; St. Boniface by the heathen Germans, Jesus by the Jews, Elijah by the servants of Baal. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z
I heard some Friends speaking of some of their Neighbours, who had been irreligious People, that were now his Followers, and were become sober well-behaved Men and Women. John Woolman's Journal 2011-09-06T02:00:09.260Z
The world wants more religion in active life and more ostracism of the irreligious. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z
The vials of irreligious wrath were poured out upon them to the last dregs. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
No one has yet attempted to explain why it should be "irreligious" to teach writing, or history, or geography; or why it should "destroy a child's soul" to improve his mental faculties. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z
And it is balanced by the insoluble problem of all irreligious systems: In a universe without God, how can either good or evil exist, as distinguished from the advantageous and the unprofitable? The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
If I am American in my views and ways, it does not make me irreligious or disloyal. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z
A large number of 'leading scientists' are not irreligious or anti-Christian. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z
How dare you do such an irreligious act? Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z
She was an irreligious, coarse, profane woman, and cared only for money and drink. Praying for Money 2011-07-31T02:00:09.523Z
They were said to be ignorant, but they were known to be irreligious, immoral, arrogant, 461 and cruel. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z
So I had the right to be given the reason for my change, after all the reports I had received of my very "irreligious conduct." The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z
And to an irreligious or God-forgetting person their trust in the efficacy of asking heavenly aid would, no doubt, have seemed childish. Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z
This caused the irreligious and profligate part of our people on board the Princess Caroline to blaspheme and storm at a terrible rate, for being so long detained when the wind was so fair. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z
It is noticeable especially amongst the cultured classes, who are absolutely irreligious, and who are absolutely pessimistic: the birth rate is falling so rapidly that France ceases to increase. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z
The latter, in spite of his own protests, anger, menaces even, had been spirited off by the lawless and irreligious followers of Umar Khan, nor had he been able to learn his whereabouts. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z
Regarding their opposition to the rebellion from the pulpit, in private conversation, and by means of the press, they fought the secret societies, its principal cause, and the propagation of evil and irreligious literature. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z
We note constantly "the two Israels"—a spiritual minority and an irreligious, idolatrous mass. Studies in Old Testament History 2011-06-17T02:00:16.420Z
Many anonymous letters were sent to him to warn him of my irreligious opinions; he treated them all with contempt, only asking me not to let my propaganda become an injury to his business. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
And the irreligious, those who say openly that they have no religion, amongst whom are they to be found? The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z
But I do wish some things were still prohibited at certain times, because a little deprivation is good for the soul, even an irreligious one. City Critic: You Can Do That on a Sunday? 2011-05-15T01:25:07Z
These men were biased by anti-religious ideas implanted in them by an irreligious education. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z
The worldly and irreligious took part in the resistance to the King of Babylon; and the worshipers of Jehovah, led by the prophets, urged submission. Studies in Old Testament History 2011-06-17T02:00:16.420Z
Let neither rank nor fortune, nor the finest order of intellect, nor yet the most winning manners, induce you to accept the addresses of an irreligious man. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z
Having brought no records with them from Jerusalem, and being in possession of none of those incentives to the preservation of civilization, it is not surprising that they deteriorated to semi-civilized and irreligious conditions. Corianton A Nephite Story 2011-04-28T02:00:14.830Z
The separation of church and state had long been the deliberate aim of the irreligious French government. Pope Pius the Tenth 2011-04-26T02:00:21.967Z
Doubt in the existence of the soul is irreligious, and without discerning this truth there is no way of salvation. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z
While the irreligious and idolatrous among the captives would soon drop out of the nation and be lost among the Gentiles, the earnest, the spiritual, and the God-fearing would grow more intense in their devotion. Studies in Old Testament History 2011-06-17T02:00:16.420Z
“The Good Book” is just such a collage, but of irreligious, rather than religious, wisdom. Beliefs: A ?Good Book,? Absent God, About the Nature of the Good 2011-04-15T18:10:04Z
He was a "libertine" in the sense of that day, and openly irreligious. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z
Yet, however irreligious a man may be himself, he always dislikes irreverence in a woman. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z
Nor were these experiences confined to the vulgar, the ignorant, the superstitious or the irreligious; they affected every class, without any distinction of social standing, age or culture. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z
He related to him the last act of the Knight in Rome, but with an irreligious coldness which produced in the youth a chill of a different kind. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z
And the clergy generally arraigned it as immoral, inhuman, and irreligious. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z
I’m thoughtless, I own, but certainly not irreligious. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z
“About this time,” says Stockdale, “not merely slight hints but constant allusions, personally and by letters, ... rendered me extremely uneasy respecting Mr. Shelley’s religious, or indeed irreligious, sentiments.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z
He informed her that he regarded the Darwinian theory as much less irreligious than her, Countess Zriny's, paltry conception of the Deity. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z
Too often has it been the attendant of religious zeal; but it is perhaps the most bitter and unsparing when found among the irreligious. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z
I was too rough and outspoken; too irreligious. The Vicar's People 2011-02-25T03:01:16.160Z
The clergy were numerous and very rich; sons of noblemen held the fat benefices, and almost all led irreligious lives and held celibacy in the meanest esteem. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z
Examples: Persons who invite others to defraud and show how it can be accomplished, theatres where irreligious plays are staged, books that aim to depreciate virtue, etc. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z
They had thought nothing out, joined nothing together, they seemed to believe everything and nothing, they were neither religious nor irreligious, neither moral nor adventurous. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z
So irreligious, and to touch her person— Pause, we may be observed. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z
And they serve as public proof that an irreligious conservative can exist. Beliefs: A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives 2011-02-19T01:20:19Z
In such a pleasurable review the Icelander quickly recovered from his fear, and replied, with an irreligious chuckle in his voice,— 'Had lots of good dances with the gals—best fun I've ever put in. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z
Since Titus is habitually religious and Balbus habitually irreligious, the question of the former sounds like irritation, the question of the latter like blasphemy. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z
Too late the Henry Goldsmiths awoke to the consciousness of her tyranny, which did not permit them to be irreligious even in private. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z
Readers of Christopher North's essay, in the "Recreations," on "Sacred Poetry," will remember the long indictment which he there brings against the earlier poems of Wordsworth; he complains of them as being irreligious. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z
In 2008, feeling the absence of irreligious voices on the right, Mr. Khan, who also blogs about science for Discover magazine’s Web site, started SecularRight.org. Beliefs: A Place on the Right for a Few Godless Conservatives 2011-02-19T01:20:19Z
"I think him very irreligious," declared the young lady, emphatically. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z
Examples are public schools in which only the profane sciences are taught, and care is exercised that neither the text-books nor the teachers shall be irreligious or interfere with the religious beliefs of others. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z
This change is calculated to produce far-reaching effects in the social and religious order, by no means necessarily, however, of an anti-Catholic or irreligious kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z
Fourthly, that that Policy which will suffer irreligious Errors, shall suffer the losse of so much Liberty in one kind or other, I will not exempt Venice, Rhaguse, the Cantons, the Nether-lands, or any. The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America 2011-01-17T03:00:44.767Z
This statement gives a rather painful shock even to the irreligious reader. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z
After a while she laid the paper down, and said, with a little shake of the head: "I only wish he were not so irreligious!" No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z
Hence, it would be irreligious to take a vow to steal, or to count one's steps, or to prefer marriage itself to celibacy. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z
The great prophet, Mahomet, whose vicars the caliphs are, beheld with indignation from his abode in the seventh heaven* the irreligious conduct of such a vicegerent. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z
The gentlefolk are pious, and the commonalty are not irreligious. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z
Judged by these standards, Bret Harte could not be described as an irreligious writer. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z
To discuss its moral character is not my province in these pages; but I may properly record the fact that its practice is not confined to the irreligious classes. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z
Monday August 9th 2010 Religious attendance Europe's irreligious In which European countries are people least likely to attend religious services? Religious attendance: Europe's irreligious 2010-08-09T09:40:00Z
Groups like al-Qaeda must be "de-glamorised" and shown as "incompetent, narcissistic and irreligious", a report by a UK think tank suggests. Terrorists 'like football thugs' 2010-04-16T00:24:00Z
To say the obvious is to invite accusations of racism, condemnation for irreligious expression and ridicule for denial of economic 'neccessity'. 2010-01-26T12:14:00Z
Quite the reverse; for does he not bring them comfort and courage, and that quiet confidence which a man of great moral might can implant in the most irreligious mind?... With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War
You know, my dear boy, that I am not irreligious myself. The Undying Past
A month since, I held a belief in ghosts and witchcraft to be absurd, and even irreligious. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico
If he speaks of religious minds, he perpetrates a truism; if of irreligious, he insinuates a paradox. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent
It has not disappeared among the educated classes of our own time, religious or irreligious. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time
The actual conditions are not to be determined by taking an exceptional example among the irreligious, but by dividing society as a whole into two classes, and then the result is seen at a glance. What a Young Husband Ought to Know
The different bishops of Italy opposed them, and wrote to the German Emperor, Frederick II., who was a man of bad character and openly irreligious. Brother Francis Less than the least
These unhappy creatures have no religious feeling, and still they never utter here an impious or irreligious word. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6
This solemn dogma is recognized as such by the great mass both of the young and of the uneducated, by the religious few and the irreligious many. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent
A very irreligious baby, black in the face from howling, had been indeed baptized Francis Bigelow in King's Chapel, twenty-nine years ago—and had since bought a mortgage on the Benson property. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories
Shund's abominable diatribe had not roused the old gentleman's anger; Louise's avowed concurrence with the irreligious principles of the chieftain had not even provoked his disapprobation. The Progressionists, and Angela.
No persons but the agents were allowed to be witnesses of these extraordinary ceremonies; at least it would have been considered highly indecorous and irreligious to pry upon them. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II
Yes, madame," he said, "it is an irreligious, an impious act. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century.
Make every allowance for theological bias, or for irreligious bias, in the writers and tourists in Cuba, still, the testimony from Roman Catholics themselves is irresistible. To Cuba and Back
So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them
Especially horrible and revolting is this latest instance of tyranny, forcing parents who entertain religious sentiments to send their children to irreligious schools. The Progressionists, and Angela.
"Besides, it is irreligious, and you promised me you would not be irreligious." Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu
His limitations were the limitations of all irreligious people who regularly go to church. H. R.
With the penetrating insight of absolute purity He had gone about among men, freely mixing with rich and with poor, with the sick and the healthy, with the religious and the irreligious. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II
Never was there so irreligious, so immoral a spectacle as that Titan in the throes of religion. Shadows of Flames A Novel
For this, and his attacks on the priesthood, and his frequently putting piety in antithesis to morality, he was at last accused of being an impious and irreligious man. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence
No, there is nothing atheistic, nothing irreligious, in the attempt to conceive creation, as well as reproduction, carried on by universal laws. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845
In all irreligious countries, as Hendrik Rutgers, astutely arguing backward, told himself, the people who buy, sell, and vote are alive only to To-day and therefore dare not take heed of the Hereafter. H. R.
They were not, as a house, particularly irreligious, but it is astonishingly easy to acquire the habit of saying 'Amen' at the right place and repeating the Lord's Prayer without being aware of your actions. Years of Plenty
Tartuffe brought him some trouble because it was supposed to be irreligious in tendency, or at least to satirise the profession of religion. A Short History of French Literature
King Henry— I must not thank you, sir! you were to blame To infringe the liberty of houses sacred; Dare we be irreligious? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
"You are without religion—no; you shall not say that of yourself, you are not irreligious," exclaimed Manna. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine
Now prayer, as everyone knows, is that which distinguishes the religious from the irreligious man. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]
The American State schools were irreligious, and Catholic parents were unwilling to allow their children to attend them. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses
Some of them have the misfortune to have irreligious masters, and hardly any of them are so happy as to be furnished with these assistances for their improvement. Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country
The narrow literalism, the material and positive view of matters highly spiritual, abstract, and indeterminate, which had been handed down from previous generations, had become irreligious to the foremost minds of that day. Reminiscences, 1819-1899
Under the First Empire the army from top to bottom was entirely irreligious. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels
People who are without religion are capable of anything, and the irreligious ones who catch a thief are no better than the thief himself. Waldfried A Novel
Thus the question concerning slavery and the territories is morally settled by divine authority; and to this no real objection can be made, except by that great interest, whose existence is inherently unrighteous and irreligious. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery
No Roman woman was irreligious, however great the obliquity of her moral character, though sometimes her piety took a form so bizarre that the fact outruns imagination. Roman Women
I verily believe, that there are not the Hundredth Part of irreligious Books now printed, as were in the Reign of Charles II. Modest Remarks upon the Bishop of London's Letter Concerning the Late Earthquakes
"You are very irreligious," says his host, who is invariably orthodox when orthodoxy doesn't interfere with anything. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June
What good man had not rather want any thing he most desired, for the publick good, then obtain it by such unlawfull and irreligious means? Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings
Even irreligious men often testify to this truth, confessing the hand of providence in natural events that despoil them of their wealth. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery
How clever, how vital, how amusingly irreligious, how careless whether he hurt her or not. Command
Books of an immoral or irreligious tendency have been repeatedly decided to be incapable of being made the subject of copyright. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright"
To have altered the hour of eating would have seemed to him irreligious, revolutionary, altogether impossible. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June
Can there be any doubt, we are triumphantly asked, that of these two, the religious is inferior to the irreligious? Modern Substitutes for Christianity
In a still more doleful strain the Bishop of Durham describes the irreligious condition of the Borders. Border Raids and Reivers
"You irreligious little wretch!" said her aunt: "instead of kneeling in thanksgiving for your deliverance, you are enjoying roast goose and apple sauce!" Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877.
The very apologists who make the charge are the successors and coadjutors of those who have charged upon irreligious philosophy the generating of the French Revolution. Rationalism
He who acknowledges, and wishes to further, human values cannot be said to be irreligious or unspiritual. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
It is exactly because they are incredulous, or sceptical, or irreligious that we cite them at all. Modern Substitutes for Christianity
They thought they could not exhibit too striking a contrast to the sceptical indifference and irreligious frivolity of the former age in their language and deportment. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels
"But how then," replied Mr. Tyrrel, "is our religion to be known, except by our making a profession of truths which the irreligious are either ignorant of, or oppose?" Coelebs In Search of a Wife
The fact is that the belief in magic is condemned alike by science and religion,—by the one as essentially irrational, and by the other as essentially irreligious. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion
The clergyman at the head of the Protestants: the chief, council, and irreligious:—one of the council at their head. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)
The Vestiges, like its more famous successor, was violently attacked as irreligious. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
To pass a Sunday in an irreligious family," said he, "is always unpleasant, often unsafe. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales
The true Christian," said I, when Mr. Stanley had done speaking, "extracts humility from the very circumstance which raises pride in the irreligious. Coelebs In Search of a Wife
The young must be taught, and Holy Mother Church knows only too well that religious training must be woven into the fibre of secular learning if we would not have a conscienceless and irreligious generation. What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People
This was all the more significant because Western Christendom in the 15th century was by no means irreligious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"
He said it was not only superstitious but irreligious; as pancakes meant "pan Kakon," all evil. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land
Your state is that of every worldly irreligious man. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales
Yet although I was among such an irreligious people, the Lord was kind to me, and I lacked for nothing while I was there.” Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784
“Had I a strong voice, as it is the weakest alive, yea, could I lift it up as a trumpet, I would sound a retreat from our unnatural contentions, and irreligious strivings for religion.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers
In America it is rare to find people who are openly irreligious. The History of Freedom
In his youth he fell into careless and irreligious ways; but being converted he began to be zealous in good works. A Calendar of Scottish Saints
The irreligious man quarrels with the world on some such occasion as you did with your place. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales
Everyone ought to go to church, as otherwise the churches would cease to exist, and the most irreligious of men could hardly desire this. My Impressions of America
Hence, her constrained language, and unnatural manner, when she desires to be respectful,—her inconsequential remarks and perpetual blunders when she rather prefers to be irreligious. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford
This is the principle which has so much difficulty in obtaining recognition in an age when science is more or less irreligious, and when Catholics more or less neglect its study. The History of Freedom
It is an old convent, now occupied by irreligious tenants on the upper three floors, restaurants and estaminets on the lower floor. "And they thought we wouldn't fight"
All the judges of England assented, and declared, that there was one part of this ancient oath which was perfectly irreligious, and must ever hereafter be left out! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
"You must realize, of course, that such irreligious behavior precludes your moving in general society for a long time to come." The Junkmakers
And, in the last place, it will be found that so surely as a painter is irreligious, thoughtless, or obscene in disposition, so surely is his coloring cold, gloomy, and valueless. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3),
Here, however, the irreligious asserted their power as the majority, and carried matters with a high hand; and religion itself, existing as but dissent, not as an establishment, had to content itself with bare toleration. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education.
“Nothing, not God,” he says, “is greater to one than oneself is“; a statement with an irreligious smack at the first sight; but like most startling sayings, a manifest truism on a second. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25)
Under this latter head he dwelt on the possible abuse of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and the irreligious profanation of the Lord’s Day. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations
Nor was the work irreligious and blasphemous in its spirit, like the attacks of the last century. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion
And when I speak thus I have no impression that I displease God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. Shirley
When he was condemned as being too worldly and facetious for a priest, it was easy to retort that humour is not of necessity irreligious. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
Not that she considered herself by any means an irreligious woman. Daddy's Girl
All this is irreligious! yet all this prevails extensively in our most conservative and churchy communities. The Heart of the New Thought
Taught that education for her was indelicate and irreligious, she has been kept in such gross ignorance as to fall a prey to superstition, and to glory in her own degradation... Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures
Martin harboured an irreligious reluctance to see the approach of Sunday. Shirley
Samuel James May, the famous abolitionist, was driven from the pulpit as irreligious, solely because of his attacks on slaveholding. Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889
An antagonist very different from the Bishops was Mr. Matthew Arnold, who severely censured Colenso's whole method of criticism, as a handling of religious questions in an irreligious spirit. Arrows of Freethought
"Surely," exclaims our new Guide to Hell, "surely if there is a sin which, on merely Theistic principles, merits the severest pains of hell, it is the authorship of an irreligious book." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Compare the intense Christianity of Spain or Russia, and their backward civilization, with the easy-going religious or irreligious condition of France or America, and their recognition of Liberty and Humanity, equalled nowhere else on earth. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures
He was not irreligious, though a member of no sect; but his religion could not be that of one who knows how to venerate. Shirley
There was something to her almost irreligious in the idea of a Duke without an acre. Marion Fay
This postulate indispensable to religion, although it has been attacked by religious as well as irreligious philosophers. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion
But they must not write irreligious books on the subject. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Though characterized by force and even freedom of expression, it does not contain an impure or irreligious sentiment. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848
The Old Religion.—It has generally been said that the Arabs before Islam were irreligious. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems
He had not moral courage sufficient to withstand the irreligious fanaticism of his age. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
Wives stood at the open doors of the old houses, some in Sabbath finery, some flaunting irreligiously their every-day shabbiness, without troubling even to arrange their one dress differently, as a pious Rabbi recommended. Dreamers of the Ghetto
But hell is not a really dreadful place—except, of course, for the writers of irreligious books. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
The world thinks we are irreligious because in the early days some of our leaders were held to be unorthodox. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
She then, in a very delicate manner, hinted at Mr. Blake's irreligious opinions, and acknowledged that it was on the account of these that she had refused his protection for her son. The Fairchild Family
Yet Orthodoxy stigmatizes this age of John Browns as irreligious:—rather do we think it the dawn of the true faith. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864
He was called the Red Beadle because, though his irreligious opinions had long since lost him his synagogue appointment and driven him back to his old work of bootmaking, his beard was still ruddy. Dreamers of the Ghetto
Wishing to keep the "irreligious instinct" in mystery, or at least obscurity, he objects to anthropological "explanations." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
The world thinks we are irreligious; but our individual churches do not think so—for most of us are members of churches in good and regular standing, and we are not denied communion. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
Although not an irreligious man, he had views on religion that were far from orthodox. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties
People generally thought the idea absurd, as well as irreligious. The Meaning of Evolution
Pity such bravery should prove unsuccessful, such merit unrewarded;—but the irreversible decree of Providence!—who can gainsay?—we may lament the loss of a friend, but 'tis irreligious to murmur at pre-ordination. The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant
Such a state of matters is preposterously absurd, and, to my thinking, quite irreligious—it at least tends to make hypocrites. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland
The discussion was reported word for word in the Woman's Tribune and I think no one who read it would say that it was irreligious or lacked respect for the teachings of Christ. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
It is very difficult for an honest mind to form any just conception of such a religious fanatic, and such an irreligious wretch as this Francisco Pizarro. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots
They were irreligious men, stirring, energetic workers, but devoid of interest in “things unseen,” and therefore could not be expected to care for the present and future moral condition of the settlement. The Cabin on the Prairie
Tragedies, plays, and all irreligious expressions and sentiments are sacredly prohibited. The History of Dartmouth College
Some very irreligious, if not atheistic, Anarchist-Socialists, such as Mr. Morrison Davidson, pretend to object to interest on religious grounds because, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life said, 'Lend hoping for nothing again.'" British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
We do not want to proclaim ourselves an irreligious or a religious people. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
We have no theory which requires us to attribute unworthy motives to Dr. Cumming, no opinions, religious or irreligious, which can make it a gratification to us to detect him in delinquencies.  The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
But he delighted in being known as a wicked and irreligious person, and always made a fine pretence at being at sea when speaking of anything Scriptural. The End of the Rainbow
Miss Gordon would not have stooped to quote Shakespeare, considering him very irreligious and sometimes quite indelicate, and having forbidden the reading of him in the Gordon family. 'Lizbeth of the Dale
Socialism of the present day is out-and-out irreligious, and hostile to the Church. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
He was as irreligious as he was vicious. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
There is no sense of God; reason or society takes his place, and an irreligious, calculating cast of character is the inevitable result. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
Dr. Blair was rarely too busy to get to church on a Sunday morning, though he made a loud pretence of being very irreligious. The End of the Rainbow
The effort to uproot slavery was pronounced either absurd, treasonable, or irreligious; that it would incite insurrection of the slaves; or if successful, bring great responsibility upon the Abolitionists, and disaster to the whole country. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
The above words were written with regard to German Socialism, and British Socialism is far more irreligious, violent, and revolutionary than is the German variety. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals
Several of the infidel Professors of the Faculty of Medicine received ovations from crowded class-rooms; millions of immoral and irreligious books were scattered throughout the country. Public School Education
Taught that education for her was indelicate and irreligious, she has been kept in such gross ignorance as to fall a prey to superstition, and to glory in her own degradation. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Don't suppose we are irreligious—far from it; but always we are disciplinarians. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914
When you say it would degrade woman to go to the polls, do you not make a sad confession of your irreligious mode of observing that most sacred right of citizenship? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
At his return he and Robespierre denounced the irreligious masquerades, and spoke for the clergy, who had as good a right to toleration as their opponents. Lectures on the French Revolution
But these "Public Schools," for whose support we and all other Christian denominations are taxed, are, by their own confession, utterly irreligious. Public School Education
He who finds beauty helps to interpret God: For not an irreligious heart can dwell In him who sees and knows the beautiful. The Woman Who Dared
This does not imply that it is irreligious, nor unreligious, nor sacrilegious. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
For of course, I, your mother, have wished you also to live this irreligious life. The Old Helmet, Volume I
No brute can have this sort of melancholy; no man who is irreligious can become its prey. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
Nor is this irreligious tendency confined to literary publications; it finds numerous and powerful advocates in men of scientific pursuits, who strive to make the worse appear the better cause. Public School Education
There are many who believe that the Mosaic institutions were literally dictated by the Almighty, yet who would denounce as irreligious and "communistic" any application of their spirit to the present day. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
In popular thought, religious and irreligious alike, the natural is supposed to be something that runs itself without any internal guidance or external interference. Miracles and Supernatural Religion
Some of them think that those who explore the origins and elements of material things are irreligious, and assert that they deny the existence of the gods. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
Certainly she was not an irreligious person; she conformed, as she said, to the habits of each family she lived with, and she highly estimated moral perfections.  Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
He remarked afterwards, that he was much inclined to have retorted, by calling his opponent the irreligious member, but that he refrained, as it would have been a returning of evil for evil. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females
The being united to a man of irreligious principles, makes it impossible to discharge a great part of the proper duty of a wife. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
The social workers are not irreligious; many of them believe their service to be of the highest type of religious expression. Church Cooperation in Community Life
It may be applied for a religious no less than for an irreligious purpose, as implied in the text. Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews
Coarse she was; but neither dishonest, nor selfish, nor vain, nor irreligious, nor false. The Bertrams
It had been so much the fashion to consider him as irreligious, that one would say that even his friends were of the same opinion. My Recollections of Lord Byron
Scepticism and religious questioning are, then, no sins; they are not irreligious. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891
She regards theories of pauperism as something very wicked and irreligious, and lavishes her alms with a perfect faith that good must come of it. Stray Studies from England and Italy
I hope it is not irreligious, but in this strange London I have an inclination to adapt a portion of the Church Service to our common experience. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856
The Methodists of those early days—people as well as preachers—endured ridicule and persecution, alike from church-members and from the openly irreligious who were inflamed by their misrepresentations. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
What was yet more significant was the irreligious and sceptical temper of the younger generation which had grown up amid the storms of the civil war. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
It is rather the slow production of a careless and irreligious life, operating together with prejudices and erroneous conceptions, concerning the nature of the leading doctrines and fundamental tenets of Christianity. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
I have seen pretty well all the typical phases of religious London and London irreligious; but these would rather be characterized as non-religious than as irreligious folks. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
If I could be scared out of them, let me add in all good humour, by such easily-impressed words as "antichristian" or "irreligious," I should think that I deserved them in their real signification. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856
While an irreligious or immoral governor would pervert the course of justice in the administration of laws truly excellent, he would be utterly incompetent to the improvement of those that might be defective. The Ordinance of Covenanting
As remarked already, prayer-meetings will not draw irreligious young men into the sphere where we want them. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
Not science, but the neglect of science, is irreligious; devotion to science is a tacit worship—a tacit recognition of worth in the things studied; and by implication in their Cause. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
For a long while the dance was denounced as irreligious and sinful on account of Salome's blasphemous dancing. Psychology and Social Sanity
Catherine says he thought the world was getting very wicked and dangerous and irreligious, and that it comforted him to know that we should be out of it.' Robert Elsmere
In the rear areas and rest billets, the profane and irreligious word might often have been heard; but face to face with Death, Judgment, Heaven or Hell, the skeptic was silenced. The Greater Love
He knew it would pay; and we cannot expect irreligious young men to be drawn away from these by mere religious appliances. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
She could not be essentially irreligious—that were impossible in a true woman. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
Everything I did was wrong—according to her, I was rebellious, irreligious, too fond of dress, and lazy physically and mentally. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
If I had my own way," cried Fichta, "I would shut up these irreligious American schools. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
But Miss Todd talked and talked as if I'd done something irreligious in church. A harum-scarum schoolgirl
Is it in her power to make the city the best place for irreligious as well as for pious youth? Amusement: A Force in Christian Training
An irreligious mother! what an anomaly, what a monster, among things human, is she. The Young Maiden
They marry irreligious persons, not asking themselves the question whether they are irreligious, merely from impatience to get out of their present discomfort; "Any thing but this," they say. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
What was yet more significant was the irreligious and sceptical temper of the younger generation which had grown up amidst the storms of the Civil War. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683
Some men refuse their daughters to irreligious men, or to men who are not of their own sect or subsect. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
And because it is so beyond all question, therefore woe to the irreligious world that never puts it in practice! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
So does instinct teach us the fitness of female piety, that even the irreligious of our sex expect, and require, it in her. The Young Maiden
An openly irreligious man would have drawn up his army and fallen upon the Philistines without any religious service at all. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
“You have said that which has cheered me for you, Margaret, though, as we poor irreligious human beings often say to each other, ‘I wish I had your faith.’ Deerbrook
Therefore the Bible "is regarded as irreligious and immoral." Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
The passage containing the reference to the three tears and Trinity Sunday was at first deemed irreligious by the Russian censors, and consequently expunged. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
Religious people, I believe, are often very odd things in the eyes of irreligious people. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
And He came down, as His name "Comforter" shows, especially to stand by, and comfort, and strengthen those who are in any trouble, particularly trouble from irreligious men. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
He did not, of course, really believe this, but he had to tell himself so; for otherwise he would have to alter his whole way of life, or confess himself an irreligious man. Shining Ferry
Besides being gross, they were irreligious and blasphemous. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
There were several ministers of religion on the creek, but it is nevertheless to be feared that we were a rather irreligious lot. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
The profligate novels, licentious drama, and irreligious opinions of the middle class now in France, are the result of the infidelity and wickedness which produced the Revolution. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
And, this being so, do you think that men, being as they mostly are, careless and irreligious, do you think they like this? Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
You speak too hurriedly, doctor, and, if you will pardon my saying so, too irreligiously.' The Bishop's Secret
The saddest proof of the extent of the suffering is shown in the irreligious despair which seized upon the sufferers. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
Being an irreligious as well as a stupid man, he held that all who professed religion were hypocritical and silly. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
It is no necessary part of the conception that the mind should be either purposely irreligious, or directly vicious. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
Some are born of bad parents, irreligious parents, and have no education, or a bad one. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
“It were a sad thing,” said Clarice quietly, “if only irreligious people might love each other.” A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
Supernatural means were so abundant that the use of drugs was not only irreligious but superfluous. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
The religious tone of this letter calls for special notice, since it was written at the very time she was supposed to be imparting irreligious principles to her pupils. Mary Wollstonecraft
Had no place remained for mystery it had proved itself both unscientific and irreligious. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
V. Indeed he ponders on life's meaning much, Investigates the origin of things But irreligious are his ways of thought. The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes
The Court considers the atheistical irreligious 'attentats' have gone too far and therefore has sent us—" "—To preach me a sermon? Debts of Honor
The General Bible Society of the United States was founded in 1816 to dispel this irreligious gloom. Union and Democracy
It was on account of this gross absurdity, and the irreligious application of it, that our first reformers suffered, and so many were put to death in the reign of queen Mary. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
Spontaneous Generation is the leading theology of the modern religious or irreligious novel; and much of the most serious and cultured writing of the day devotes itself to earnest preaching of this impossible gospel. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
So far as the name goes, we are not monastics," he said, with a sparkle in his deep-set eyes; "we are but a family of ancient lineage, expelled from our home in these irreligious times. Slain By The Doones
More than once I have heard his beautiful Christian example spoken of by irreligious comrades. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
Christians must think your Dialogue of the Dead no less irreligious than their opponents think mine, and infinitely more absurd. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
There are the indifferent people who are irreligious themselves and have no share in the activities of the religious institution. Society Its Origin and Development
In the same manner irreligious "healthy commonsense" explains religion as the work of the devil, of the parsons. Selected Essays
In short, the Protestants, like the Catholics of France, find themselves treated by an oligarchy of irreligious fanatics as pariahs in their own country. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
Even the irreligious often acknowledge the efficacy of the prayers of Christian men. The Ferryman of Brill and other stories
The dreadful excesses committed by the lower orders during the French Revolution were the results of the irreligious and immoral conduct and teaching of the upper classes in France. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
Bishops, archbishops, and dissenting ministers had met at Lambeth to inspect the progress of irreligious thought, with intent to arrest it. Clayhanger
The separation of the "spirit of the Gospel" from the "letter of the Gospel" is an irreligious act. Selected Essays
Good faith is essential to faith; and a sophistical mind is as immoral and irreligious as a depraved heart. Education and the Higher Life
And there are the people guilty of deviational crimes such as political unreliability, scientific unorthodoxy, and irreligious attitudes. The Status Civilization
The minister admonished her many times, telling her, among other things, that her irreligious ways were a distress to her husband. A Window in Thrums
We will deal with the religious quarrel before passing on to a much more irreligious age; but the truth about it is tangled and far from easy to trace. A Short History of England
They would not be irreligious, but they smile upon the most irreligious men, and even show that they love to be wooed by them. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.
In the midst of the transformations of many kinds which are taking place in the civilized world, neither the uneducated nor the irreligious mind can be of help. Education and the Higher Life
"This table," says an article on Rickman in the Wonderful Museum, "is prized by him very highly at this time; and no doubt will be deemed a rich relic by some of our irreligious connoisseurs." Highways and Byways in Sussex
Yez�d, who succeeded his father, was a very licentious and irreligious man. The Faith of Islam
And now that the ministers had spoken, it was almost irreligious and atheistical for others to express any doubt. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
There is nothing irreligious in this difference in taste. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.
While there are few nations in which there is such a diversity of religious views and multiplicity of religious sects, there are few peoples which are so proverbially irreligious as our own. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
But history has assigned no act, no sentiment, no word of an irreligious or immoral tendency, to Henry of Monmouth up to the date of this letter. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
If all the Infidels became Believers and all the irreligious pious, He would gain no advantage. The Faith of Islam
I don't mind signing cheques, in the least; but wills have an irreligious appearance, in my eyes. The Two Admirals
To be desponding and gloomy is indeed irreligious. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.
The third class of objection takes the ground that there is something irreligious and contrary to Christianity in the chronicling of such phenomena. Real Ghost Stories
Virgin commanding the burial of a clerk of irreligious life in consecrated ground, because he had been her votary. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
"Sir, sir, let us not be irreligious," implored the Vicar, smiling. Simon Dale
You're an irreligious man, because you never kneel to God; you're a dishonest man, because you profess to belong to a faith whose doctrines you do not accept, and whose commands you disobey.' My New Curate
The character of that influence, and its tendency to induce a religious or irreligious frame of spirit, has been made a matter of controversial discussion. Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
So far from its being irreligious to ascertain facts, there is a subtle impiety in the refusal to face phenomena, whether natural or supernatural. Real Ghost Stories
But first of all, and more than all, the bishop condemns "that irreligious" Parisian journal, La Presse. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
Alexander Anderson, represented as an ignorant irreligious fellow; Elizabeth Anderson, his daughter; and Jean Fulton, grandmother of the said Elizabeth Anderson, were secured. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
In the old days the Sampaolesi were noted for their piety; now, even in modern irreligious Italy, you would seek far to unearth a people so flagrantly irreligious. The Lady Paramount
Butler was an earnest and deep-thinking Christian, melancholy by temperament, and grieved by what seemed to him the hopelessly irreligious condition of his age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
They have reformed drunkards, converted the irreligious, shut the mouth of the swearer, and have brought peace to more than one heart.  Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
To act as if faith in eternal life and in the living Christ was the simplest thing in the world, or a dogma to which one has just to submit, is irreligious. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
Superstition is believed in by persons accounted neither irreligious nor desperately profane. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
The irreligious man, testing a proposition by reason alone, may decide that it is to the interests of all concerned that he should not utter blasphemy. Applied Eugenics
Evidently there was but one way to get rid of this irreligious crew. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII
Their courts were most generally irreligious, and sometimes notoriously corrupt. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
A man of distinction in the tribe was threatened with loss of vision from inflammation of the eyes, having looked upon certain masks with an irreligious heart. Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians
An author, who wrote on second sight, last century, under the name of Theophilus Insulanus, considered all persons were irreligious who entertained a doubt of the reality of apparitions of departed souls. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
If it rouses hatred and strife, it is evident that absence of religion is preferable and an irreligious man better than one who professes it. The Promulgation of Universal Peace
The spirit of the age, taken on the whole, is irreligious. Directives from the Guardian
If it rouses hatred and strife it is evident that absence of religion is preferable and an irreligious man better than one who professes it. Bahá’í World Faith
From irreligious depravity, Billy had risen to reverent heights, and Hillcrest restraint was beautiful261 in his thought, as a method of preparing him for—Her. Joyce of the North Woods
The older people become reconciled with difficulty to this irreligious attitude and "the old Jewess still curses Columbus for his great transgression in discovering America, where her children have lost their religion." Aliens or Americans?
If its misapprehension and defilement have brought about warfare and bloodshed instead of remedy and cure, the world would be better under irreligious conditions. The Promulgation of Universal Peace
The advocates of these extreme opinions protest against being considered irreligious. What is Darwinism?
In an irreligious Republic, as events afterwards proved, the power of the whole clergy was bound to be destroyed. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
The creed would be not merely a record of an old belief to be accepted on authority, but a challenge to the skeptic and the irreligious. Modern Religious Cults and Movements
His religion "took," they said, as if speaking of vaccination, and before long he entered the pulpit, ready gently to crack the irreligious heads of former companions still stubborn in the ways of iniquity. The Starbucks
“Rousseau was a great man of this nation,” and yet Rousseau was irreligious. The Promulgation of Universal Peace
"Has the Archbishop of Canterbury said anything to offend your irreligious scruples?" The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow
The irreligious members of the seminary were also deeply moved; and there was a similar experience in the girls' seminary. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
We are highly irreligious in France; impiety is deeply rooted in our soil. The Well of Saint Clare
She was twenty-five, very pretty, and most irreligiously devoted to shooting and hunting. Historical Mysteries
I was not conscious of my unfairness at the time, but I now began to see that I had been influenced by my irreligious passions and prejudices. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
Men like Huxley, men like Kingsley, men like most Victorian men, were equally driven back on being irreligious; that is, on doubting things which men's normal imagination does not necessarily doubt. The Victorian Age in Literature
And perhaps you will hardly be ready some of you, at any rate for the statement which I propose to make, that sometimes, in order to be grandly moral, a man must be irreligious. Our Unitarian Gospel
Of all the days throughout the rolling year There's not a day we pass so much amiss, There's not a day wherein we all appear So irreligious, so profaned as this. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
Neglect of this obligation in a man betrays an absence, a loss of religious instinct, and an irreligious man is a pure animal, if he is a refined one. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
As usual, the influences to which I was subject there were all calculated to abate my faith in irreligious principles, and to dispose me to look with less disfavor and prejudice on Christianity. Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
Its very negative character impregnates the class-rooms with an irreligious feeling which the impressionable mind of the child cannot but notice. Catholic Problems in Western Canada
I mean, of course, from the point of view of the conventional religion of his time, he must be ready to be regarded as irreligious. Our Unitarian Gospel
The age was too sad to be an irreligious one. The Arian Controversy
Now suppose that all this influence of cities is of a worldly, immoral, irreligious character; what must be its blasting power on the general interests of religion! The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers
In the temptations at the base camp, he would perhaps appear to be utterly irreligious and profane. With Our Soldiers in France
Is it true, in fact, that modern naturalists are generally irreligious? The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
Furthermore, do I promise and swear, that I will not be at the initiating of an old man in dotage, a young man in nonage, an atheist, irreligious libertine, idiot, madman, hermaphrodite, nor woman. The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge
In this anarchy of doctrine, the growth of irreligious carelessness kept pace with that of party bitterness. The Arian Controversy
Oh! foolish papas, when will you learn that a Christian snob is worth ten thousand irreligious gentlemen? The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
Assouan was full of Turkish soldiers, who came and took away our donkeys, and stared at our faces most irreligiously Letters from Egypt
The young nobles, and the university students in general, are, in too large a proportion, imbued with irreligious principles. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
How many that lead us greatly to wonder that any of the children should turn out otherwise than irreligious! Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3
Miners, machinists, and artisans are irreligious by trade. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion
It may sound like a paradox, but it is a fact that the whole of the first millenary was inwardly irreligious; it concealed its want of metaphysical intuition behind the falsification of historical events. The Evolution of Love
Even the dancing-girl is not an outcast; she is free to talk to me, and it is highly irreligious to show any contempt or aversion.  Letters from Egypt
What must especially awaken solicitude is, that the irreligious manifestations of thought have assumed such a character of generality, that the sorrowful astonishment which they ought to produce in us is blunted by habit. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
At this Sansevero bristled, "Giovanni, I will ask you not to air your irreligious remarks about that dog with an unseemly name, in connection with the family of my wife." The Title Market
Is a religious tyrant any less a tyrant than an irreligious one? Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
Even frankly irreligious Oxford men acquire an ecclesiastical pre-Reformation aloofness which must have piqued Thackeray quite as much as the refusal of the city to send him to Westminster.  Masques & Phases
A home that is selfish in relation to other homes, in relation to its community, can have no other than selfish, antisocial, and therefore irreligious children. Religious Education in the Family
The same Lecture is occupied in part by a practical refutation of the prejudice against religion drawn from the irreligious character of many men of science. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
He was a coarse-fibred, essentially irreligious fellow, the accredited author of the reply to the question “What is the best body of Divinity?” Andrew Marvell
Whatever may be the motives which cause men to be irreligious, the thing in question is whether they have found truth. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
He looked keenly at the son of the house, who was held to be irreligious. The Mormon Prophet
It is evident there cannot be true worship in the family that is irreligious in its essential qualities, in its character, in its ideals and atmosphere. Religious Education in the Family
Almost always the man introduces his thoughts into the work of the savant, and the results of his study appear to him religious or irreligious, according to his views of religion. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
It was not because he was irreligious that old Mr. Rampant was one of the too numerous non-communicants. A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Again, irreligious as some may think his former life, he had great belief in the efficacy of the prayers of others. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars
The Mormons, whether guilty or not, were accused by common consent of the orthodox and irreligious part of the community. The Mormon Prophet
To assent because it is the custom, or because it was so done in our childhood's home, may make an irreligious mockery of the act. Religious Education in the Family
References to religious or irreligious beliefs and feelings are more frequent than is usual in Shakespeare's tragedies, as frequent perhaps as in his final plays. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Would we have so many wild, irreligious young men, and women, too, if, instead of six preachers, we had six Catholic priests? The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States.
The soldier-priests of France have earned the love and respect of even the most irreligious of the poilus. The White Road to Verdun
It is the entanglement of religion in dogma that still keeps the world superficially irreligious. Art
It is irreligious, because whatever tends to make this life less beautiful must be offensive to the God who made all things good. Religious Education in the Family
Every fact is a word of God, and I call it irreligious to say, 'I will deny this because it displeases me.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
Let a man be religious and irreligious at intervals—irregular, inconsistent, without some distinct thing to live for—it is a matter of impossibility that he can be free from doubts. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Hiram's jaw dropped at the first blast of that irreligious outbreak. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
His name was derided in the popular ballads, and he came to be looked upon as the scapegoat of the avarice and licentiousness of the church in that irreligious mediæval age. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German
The angry, antisocial person is most emphatically an irreligious person; there can be no love of his brother man where that spirit is. Religious Education in the Family
The inferior officers of the temple fulfilled their functions doubtless with the irreligious vulgarity of the sacristans of all ages. The Life of Jesus
I say uneducated and irreligious, because it is by no means education alone which can subordinate the flesh to the higher man. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
If young America is irreligious today it is because we have sown the seed and left it to itself. The Girl and Her Religion
Now, when it is considered that such writings are carefully put into popular hands, and writings of an irreligious character as carefully kept out of them, astonishment at human intolerance must cease. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious—it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
If the Boer army had been composed of an irreligious, undisciplined body of men, instead of the psalm-singing farmers, it would have been conquered by itself. With the Boer Forces
Yet Harry would share it with the Naylors, a horse-racing, betting, irreligious crowd, who have made their money in byways all their generations. The Measure of a Man
Perhaps the strangest thing of all was the clergyman who preached against it as being irreligious, taking as the text of his sermon, 'Wine, that maketh glad the heart of man.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
Something is, something must always have been, cry the religions, and the cry is echoed by the irreligious. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
We repeat, then, that not science, but the neglect of science, is irreligious. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
A Calvinist minister of Orleans Writ this, to justify the admiral For taking arms against the king deceased; Wherein he proves, that irreligious kings May justly be deposed, and put to death. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07
These grotesque festivals have sometimes amused the pens of foreign and domestic antiquaries: for our own country has participated as keenly in these irreligious fooleries. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
He is grieved at the irreligious manner in which the priests at Rome read mass. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Too sensible to be pious, and too cautious to be honest, they must be extremely well paid ere they will incur the risk attendant upon a confession of irreligious faith. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
Such irreligious frugality is even bad economy, as the little that is given is entirely thrown away. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)
His healing and reconciling influence over the heart of man—the way the human spirit expands and blossoms in His presence—is moving beyond expression to any observer, religious or irreligious. Preaching and Paganism
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