Reading ‘Soros’, page 166
Secular: non religious. Maybe not quite atheist, but synonymous enough that I can reference it as such.
sec·u·lar
/ˈsekyələr/
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adjective: secular
- 1. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.”secular buildings”
- 2. CHRISTIAN CHURCH(of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
- 3. ASTRONOMYof or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets.
- 4. ECONOMICS(of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.”there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular”
- 5. occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).