[This term often refers to religious irreverence or disrespect, as in the first example, but can also refer to irreverence or disrespect generally, as in the second example.]_
Jewish impiety, unlike the impiety of other non-Christians, was understood by John Chrysostom and those who thought as he did to be not just mere impiety, born of ignorance or the inability to recognize the true path, but a sort of madness. (Daniel Goldhagen. Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Knopf [1996], p. 51.)
[The Tampa Bay Rays] deny their gut feelings and trust numbers before individuals, which is why you see impious evens like the ALCS Game 7, when Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash yanked starter Charlie Morton with a two-hit shutout after only 66 pitches. (Jason Gay, “The Rays Win Ugly. Don’t Hate Them,” The Wall Street Journal, 10/23/20.)
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