Trend Spirituality: Spiritual-But-Not-Religious/ Steve Hamilton

A recent article posted two weeks ago at CNN.com (Are there dangers in being spiritual but not religious?) provides with some of the following stimulating quotes: 

• But for Jesuit priest James Martin, the phrase also hints at something else: selfishness. "Being spiritual but not religious can lead to complacency and self-centeredness," says Martin, an editor at America, a national Catholic magazine based in New York City. "If it's just you and God in your room, and a religious community makes no demands on you, why help the poor?"
  
  
• "I don't need to define myself to any community by putting myself in a box labeled Baptist, or Catholic, or Muslim," she says. "When I die, I believe all my accounting will be done to God, and that when I enter the eternal realm, I will not walk though a door with a label on it."
  
  
• BJ Gallagher, a Huffington Post blogger who writes about spirituality, says she's SBNR because organized religion inevitably degenerates into tussles over power, ego and money.
  
  
• The debate over being spiritual rather than religious is not just about semantics. It's about survival.  Numerous surveys show the number of Americans who do not identify themselves as religious has been increasing and likely will continue to grow.
  
  
• "Religion demands that we accord to human existence some absolutes and eternal truths, and in a post-modern culture, that becomes all but impossible," says Greeley, who teaches at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
  
  
• "People seem not to have the time nor the energy or interest to delve deeply into any one faith or religious tradition," Greeley says. "So they move through, collecting ideas and practices and tenets that most appeal to the self, but making no connections to groups or communities."

 
As followers, lurkers or commenters on a blog called "Not the Religious Type", I wonder what we might have to say about this trendy "spiritual but not relgious" stuff?  Does this include us?  Are we trend-setters?  Or is this something else altogether?