I don't know..   We have religious people convinced atheism is a belief system in itself, we have atheists concurring...

Pardon me for asking, but.. if you are irreligious, if you haven't thought about it and dismissed a theological stand, if you only give religion a thought when it affects you, such as door knocking, wanting to get your kids christened because it is a tradition, get married in church because many blushing brides want the church because their mum was married there etc etc etc..

What term should you use to describe this huge number of people?

Me? I prefer being irreligious to atheist or agnostic or whatever, because I have never to my knowledge sat and wondered "I wonder if this Jesus dude really did do the conjuring tricks? I wonder if Lazarus really was full of maggots? I wonder if he did rise from the dead and jump on a cloud a few weeks later? I wonder if his mum was a virgin? In wonder if the concept we call God does notice or give a fig about individual humans? Did Noah get everything in a boat and screw his daughters?

For me, there is little reason to dig any further than the ludicrous concept of the actual questions.

Some here are saying that to be an atheist you have to have considered and rejected. I don't reject any more than I reject either of the choices whether the local Womens' Institute should make more jam or make a nude calendar.

I have stated many times that scriptures can be a wonderful moral compass if you choose to use them as such. I don't call that hating Christians or any other belief, yet I appear to be dismissed as such.

I don't point and laugh at my wife for being a church bell ringer, yet I don't pull the buggers myself. I have a mate who is a Morris dancer, whatever floats your boat and no thanks, but I don't hold him up to ridicule. Neither do I ridicule individuals for professing belief. I rant against organised religion and their malign influence, brain washing and control mechanisms, but hey, as an ardent Sheffield Wednesday supporter, I can't understand the fascination with Sheffield United.