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'''Irreligious''' is not practicing a [[religion]] and feeling no religious impulses or emotions. It encompasses a variety of terms, including [[atheism]], [[agnosticism]], [[secular humanism]], as well as sectors of [[unaffiliation]].<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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'''Irreligious''' is the absence of religion, or contempt of it, as well as worldliness, ungodliness, profaneness, and impiety.<ref name="Cooley">{{cite web|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=DsQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330&dq=irreligion+definition&hl=en&ei=KEqvTa-WG-jp0gHD3O3ICw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Dictionary of English Language Exhibiting Orthography, Pronunciation and Definition of Words|publisher=[[Nabu Press]]|quote=''Irreligion'', ir-re-lij'-un, s. 26-7, 32. Absence of religion, or contempt of it; worldliness; unglodliness; profaneness; impiety. H., ''irreli''-gionist'' (one without r., or who despises it), s.90.|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref> It encompasses a variety of terms, including [[atheism]], [[agnosticism]], [[secular humanism]], as well as sectors of [[unaffiliation]].<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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