(a.) Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) UCL, the godless place in Gower Street, which had been set up, in large part, as a home for the spiritually uncomfortable, fitted Jacobson like a glove.
(3) Claiming the title for the most godless places were the student enclaves of Brighton and Norwich, where 42% said they had no religious affiliation, closely followed by Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Rhondda in south Wales, where community leaders said unemployment and a breakdown in community values had loosened religion's hold.
(4) To paraphrase Stephen Colbert , the Kings are at this point nothing more than giant, marauding, godless hockey machines.
(5) The constitutional process gave the conspiracy of a secret liberal-communist alliance a philosophical basis: there is no difference between liberal secularism and communist atheism, because both are used to persecute the church; there is no difference between liberal democracy and communist authoritarianism because both are used to impose a godless minority’s will on “ordinary Poles”.
(6) What would happen if they set up a "godless congregation" that met to celebrate life, with no hope of the hereafter?
(7) In August 1990, when Iraq annexed Kuwait and threatened Saudi security, he offered to raise an army of Arab Afghan veterans to fight the "godless" Saddam.
(8) So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.
(9) A man who now regards the Conservative party as de facto socialist was once a godless Trotskyist, a member of the International Socialists (the forerunners of the Socialist Workers party), who were committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ state.
(10) humility, irritating to some, might play better with the godless public.
(11) In fact, the prospects for Falconer's bill, and for the overwhelming majority who agree with it, might be brighter if more of its religious opponents were as openly indifferent to evidence, argument and testimony that has moved the most godless to pity.
(12) It confirms our place as perhaps the most godless country, the least "churched", in the industrialised world, setting us apart from the US, obviously, but also from much of continental Europe.
(13) We are asunder, a predicament perhaps best expressed by the Daily Mail's Robert Hardman being photographed in a cathedral calling people "godless".
(14) Abe promotes himself as bridge between Japan’s past and its future, vaulting from Japan’s glorious traditions, over the post-1945 years of weakness, socialism and godlessness, to a beautiful, brave new Japan people by beautiful, brave new Japanese,” Cucek said.
(15) Following the short tour, the pair will be holing up at London's Bloomsbury Theatre for the seemingly annual Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People, a Christmas celebration for rationalists that in the past has featured contributions from Jarvis Cocker , Ricky Gervais and professor Richard Dawkins.
(16) This California playground of Pacific surf, sunshine and sleek boutiques has, if you believe one side of the argument, just plunged a dagger into Christmas, gutted tradition and pushed America down a slippery slope to godlessness.
(17) Their vision, he says, is "a godless gathering in every town, city or village that wants one".
(18) I can imagine the message being something like: “See what the godless Americans are doing to us; come help us fight them, because actually they’re not doing very much at all and you probably won’t die if you join in.” Our lukewarm efforts may actually be helping them draw replacement Emwazis into their deluded, disgusting version of what the world should look like – probably not the best course of action.
(19) The Sunday Assembly may be godless, but a churchgoer who stumbled through the wrong door would find much they recognised.
(20) Julius arrived an hour early, just to be sure of a place at the service, which is described by its organisers as "a godless congregation that meets … to hear great talks, sing songs and generally celebrate life".
Irreligious
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.
(a.) Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) At a press conference following the judgment, Ramdev invited the gay community to his yoga ashram where he said he would "cure them of homosexuality", which he described as "unnatural, uncivilised, immoral, irreligious and abnormal".
(2) Fear of stigma, contact with the irreligious world, "yihud" with opposite sex therapists, suspicion of irreligious healers of the Jewish "nefesh", and seeing such a need as a sign of weakness of faith all serve to deter the religious patient from seeking help.
(3) The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.
(4) Those who become radicalised typically come from irreligious backgrounds.
(5) Misconceptions about prostitutes pointed out by other authors (Pomeroy, 1965; Gebhard, 1969), such as marked infertility, irreligiousness, and homosexuality, are also contested by this study.
(6) Even though Britain is one of the most irreligious countries on Earth, with just one in 10 attending church each week and a quarter of Britons having no religious beliefs, the Church of England still runs one in four primary and secondary schools in England, while its bishops sit in the House of Lords, making Britain the only country – other than Iran – to have automatically unelected clerics sitting in the legislature.
(7) Caravaggio’s religious paintings give the lie to his irreligious life.
(8) Not that Zionism was ever a totally irreligious movement.
(9) The Catholic church has its own problems, but it shares its principal one with Protestants: Britain is irreligious, if not yet atheist.
(10) This power of the postbag has awed parliamentarians in Holyrood and Westminster, sometimes cowing ministers into backing down, as when Labour dropped plans to force faiths schools to offer some places to irreligious pupils.