irreligion

Noun

Meaning

The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety.

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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. Ambrose Bierce

When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail. William Cobbett

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home. Robert Graves

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power. Robert H. Jackson

I think it is not irreligion but a tidiness of mind, which rebels against the idea of permeating scientific research with a religious implication. Arthur Eddington

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion. George Berkeley

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