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- An atheist or irreligious state.
An atheocracy is not a practicable form of government.
1907, Thomas Whittaker, The Liberal State: A Speculation, Watts & Co., page 142 more examples
An atheocracy of the Marxian type is as intolerant of liberty of thought as any Holy Roman Empire or Bible-ridden company of Puritans.
1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 32More than a few thinkers have noted the irony of secularism as itself constituting a de facto “religious” system of thought, which defines how and why we can believe things, and where we can talk about them. As some might put it: a secular atheocracy.
2012 February 22, Robert Joustra, “Beware the secular atheocracy”, in The Globe and Mail
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atheocracy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/atheocracy
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