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'''Unaffiliated''' is a term used to refer to individuals who are not aligned with a particular religion.<ref name=Definition>{{Cite web|title=The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YR4RAQAAIAAJ&q=unaffiliated+irreligious&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=1m6uTdDDLKLa0QGT5KHCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg|quote=With respect to understanding the irreligious, however, the relevance of data on apostates depends upon the orientation they have adopted by the time they are studied (such as unaffiliated religious belief, no stated religious ...

'''Unaffiliated''' is a term used to refer to individuals who are not aligned with a particular religion.<ref name=Definition>{{Cite web|title=The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YR4RAQAAIAAJ&q=unaffiliated+irreligious&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=1m6uTdDDLKLa0QGT5KHCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg|quote=With respect to understanding the irreligious, however, the relevance of data on apostates depends upon the orientation they have adopted by the time they are studied (such as unaffiliated religious belief, no stated religious ...

|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|author=Tom Flynn; Richard Dawkins|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> According to the [[Pew Research Center]], this group includes [[atheists]] and  [[agnostics]].<ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> However, not all individuals who are unaffiliated are [[irreligious]], although the association between the two terms is increasing.<ref name="Corrie E. Norman, Donald S. Armentrout">{{cite web|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aHSqIWYQWjUC&pg=PA127&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=YnOuTa6sKuPZ0QGM2J2QCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=unaffiliated%20irreligious&f=false|title=Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]]|quote=Unaffiliated persons are not necessarily hostile to religion or even irreligious. Yet, as the proportion of unaffiliated persons grows, it will be increasingly difficult to assume that there is a religious base, such as Reed's orthodox Protestant consensus, supporting southern culture.|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> Notably, some [[Christians]] do not identify with and often disdain the term ''religion''.<ref name=Christianity and Irreligion 1>{{Cite web|title=When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6U_3ppYbJTQC&pg=PA33&dq=relationship+not+religion&hl=en&ei=8WquTe-NKeHd0QHZ36TDCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=relationship%20not%20religion&f=false|quote=Stating it succinctly, they may say, "Christianity is not a religion; it's a relationship." Religion–that is, non-Christian religion–is viewed as a <u>merely</u> human construct and therefore flawed while Christianity is more authentic, therefore not a "religion." Karl Barth, the highly influential twentieth century German theologian, constructed his multivolume ''Church Dogmatics'' on this very distinction.|publisher=[[HarperOne]]|author=Charles Kimball|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name=Christianity and Irreligion 2>{{Cite web|title=How to Hear from God|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iROjqori2MoC&pg=PT114&dq=relationship+not+religion&hl=en&ei=42quTfDADMS60QHtzpyxCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=relationship%20not%20religion&f=false|quote=Religious people are frequently those who follow formulas and do good works to earn God's favor but who don't have a close personal relationship with Him.|publisher=[[Hachette Book Group]]|author=[[Joyce Meyer]]|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref>

|publisher=[[Prometheus Books]]|author=Tom Flynn; Richard Dawkins|accessdate=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> According to the [[Pew Research Center]], this group includes [[atheists]] and  [[agnostics]].<ref name="Meaning">{{cite web|url = http://pewforum.org/Topics/Religious-Affiliation/Unaffiliated/|title=Unaffiliated|publisher=[[Pew Research Center]]|quote=Pew Forum publications—including public opinion polls, demographic reports, research studies, event transcripts and interviews—about people who are unaffiliated with any particular religion. This group includes atheists, agnostics and people who describe their religion as “nothing in particular.”|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> However, not all individuals who are unaffiliated are [[irreligious]], although the association between the two terms is increasing.<ref name="Corrie E. Norman, Donald S. Armentrout">{{cite web|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=aHSqIWYQWjUC&pg=PA127&dq=unaffiliated+irreligious&hl=en&ei=YnOuTa6sKuPZ0QGM2J2QCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=unaffiliated%20irreligious&f=false|title=Religion in the Contemporary South: Changes, Continuities, and Contexts|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]]|quote=Unaffiliated persons are not necessarily hostile to religion or even irreligious. Yet, as the proportion of unaffiliated persons grows, it will be increasingly difficult to assume that there is a religious base, such as Reed's orthodox Protestant consensus, supporting southern culture.|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>  

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