Irreligion

Irreligion is the state of not belonging to or affiliating with any particular religion, or the concept of religion in general. A person who is irreligious generally feels apathy toward religion, or simply may not think about religion very often at all. Sometimes the term is also used to include people who are hostile toward religion or religious people. Such people are more commonly referred to as antitheist.

Irreligion does not necessarily imply atheism. A person may believe in supernatural phenomena and yet simply not subscribe to any particular dogma of one religion or another. That is, a person may feel that there is some super-powerful being out there, or that there is a spiritual connection of some sort which binds all of us together, and yet not belong to any particular religion. Typically, this kind of person is a "practical atheist" in the sense that the day-to-day choices this person makes are unaffected by his/her spiritual or supernatural beliefs. This is in contrast to most religious people who, in keeping with the dogma of their religion, make many personal choices which are directly affected by their religion.

Since atheism is not a religion, atheists are by definition irreligious. This includes antitheists.