Up to 10 percent of the world’s population that does not attend church on a regular basis describes itself as “spiritual, but not religious.” The term actually seems to come out of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1970’s as AA was trying to explain that although a belief in a higher power was required, a strict orthodox view of a god of any sort was not. It has never been an officially adopted line of Alcoholics Anonymous, but is has spread like wildfire in our culture.