atheocratic

English

Etymology

a- +‎ theo- +‎ -cratic

Adjective

atheocratic (comparative more atheocratic, superlative most atheocratic)

1. (usually derogatory) Pertaining to or characteristic of atheocracy; godless.
   • 2004, John Webb Kline, I Could Use a Miracle Right Now: Miraculous Intervention for Difficult Times, page 264:

     Communism, as an atheocratic government, fits this model with the exception that it replaces God as the supreme authority with human government.

   • 2011 July 4, James D. Conley, “America's Atheocracy”, in First Things:

     We see the consequences of this atheocratic mindset everywhere. We see it most clearly in the case of legalized abortion.

   • 2019, John Witte, Christianity And Democracy In Global Context, unnumbered page:

     Until 1988, militant atheism was the official religion, one might say, of the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party was the established church in what might be called an atheocratic state.