"Religion"
This page does not flow entirely smoothly but we hope the main points are clear.
Defining "Religion"
Most of the folk who sometimes use the word "religion" cannot say what they mean by it.
They sometimes start by saying that it means "believing in God", but if you tell them that Buddhism (in its pure original form) was agnostic about such questions, and ask whether Buddhism is a religion, they are stuck, because they are determined to call Buddhism a religion and too stubborn to admit that they have no idea why they call it that.
Cicero defines religion as "the cultivation of the gods" (cultus deorum, De Natura Deorum 2:8). On that definition, Christian Relaunch rejects religion.
Whether the public counts something as "religion" is a historical accident. Wikipedia gives a list of "typical" features of religions, but the problem is that some so-called religions have some of these features and others have others, and the only reason to put them all under one roof is prejudice.
So before you call Christian Relaunch "religious" and pigeon-hole it with the other "religions", beware of prejudice and shallow thinking.
Spirituality
Some folk claim to be "Spiritual But Not Religious". But what is "spirituality"?
The word seems able to mean almost anything you want it to, but there seem to be four main variants.
1. "good" (by the speaker's standards)
2. "self-aware"
3. "seeking detachment from the world"
4. "using the word God"
#1 is silly and #2 is trivial, so we trust no reader of this page will fall for them.
#3 deserves attention, and it is true that seekers of detachment have much in common, but if that is what "spiritual" means then this site rejects spirituality. Instead we promote what we call healthy human development. Far from seeking detachment from the world, reborns believe that the path to fulfillment involves carrying out our grand task as humans which is to cultivate the world's resources.
That leaves #4. We certainly use the G-word, but that tells you very little about our beliefs, for almost any belief can be expressed using that word, including some you may at first find strange. To understand such beliefs you need to pay careful attention.
The Transcendent
Just because people call themselves atheists, don't imagine they have no sense of the transcendent. Their reverence may be misdirected, but the recognition that its object must be in some sense beyond is universal. This recognition, traditionally expressed in words like "sacred", is these days more often expressed in other ways, but it is still there. If you want to know what folk revere, listen for the hushed silences. The most "irreverent" folk have them. Even among the most cynical it is never true that "nothing is sacred".