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Do people still unironically say this? It was a joke even decades ago. I remember parodying it as a teenager.
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20. If you ask a lot of folks in the SF burner set for affiliation they'd say they're "Spiritual but not religious" What they mean is "If I want to believe in Crystals and Chakras, I'm going to, leave me the hell alone" I'm not into that...
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Actually "spiritual but nor religious" is an increasingly popular affiliation category that is showing up on more surveys and is widely popular among young people in particular. What they mean is: "I am not an atheist or total skeptic, but I don't follow any particular dogma."
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VGR is not an ethnomethodologist and Erik is here. Erik is deftly pointing to the social fact, and to how people in situ actually use these words in this way. I am fine with both approaches, the gadfly and the sociologist.
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