religious humanist

Often a Humanist will state that they are "not religious, but are spiritual". But I just found out that "religion" actually can have two meanings - one we would rather not assume, but the other we should be proud to assume.

Generally, "religion" is assumed to be from the Latin "religere" which means "to tie", or "to bind" or to "assume a yoke". When this is meant to be yoked to a creed, or to be tied to a dogma of some church, we naturally say that that does not describe ourselves. This is the extroverted meaning that comes from outside ourselves and is forced upon us.