By: pw201

I don't think that "theism" can be discussed as a proper or collective noun for the same reason. When the people who most of people think of when someone mentions "atheism" use the term "religion", they usually mean evangelical Protestantism (conversely, the evangelical Protestants mean "that which we do not do, because we have a personal relationship with Jesus", q.v.). I generally use "theism" for "belief in one omni-{potent,scient,benevolent} God". That's a useful term, because there are arguments for and against such belief, even if almost no-one is a mere theist. Still, saying "theists are all like this" is generally not going to be true. "Spirituality" is something I'm ambivalent about: it's used by annoying people like Storm and so is tainted by association, but I can see what people who say they're "spiritual atheists" are trying to say (most often, that they're not Straw Vulcans).