churchless
Lacking religious affiliation
Churchless describes someone who doesn't attend or belong to a church, or a community that lacks a church building.
It can suggest religious disaffiliation or simply the absence of a physical structure: a churchless town in the remote desert, the growing churchless population in urban areas.
Rejects doctrine for reason
- skepticOne who doubts claims
- agnosticFlexible across platforms
- atheistOne denying gods exist
- nonbelieverOne lacking religious faith
humanist · rationalist · secularist · deist · pantheist · unaffiliated · seeker · questioner
Not involving worship
- irreligiousNot devout or pious
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- temporalRelating to chronology
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
lay · civil · godless · unreligious · mundane · earthly · nonsacred · unholy
Ended through neglect
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
- backsliderOne who reverts
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
- apostateOne who renounces faith
nonpracticing · inactive · estranged · wayward · strayed · departed · disengaged · ex-member
freethinker
Rejects doctrine for reason
nonbeliever · humanist · rationalist · secularist · deist · pantheist · unaffiliated · seeker · questioner · doubter
nonreligious
Not involving worship
- irreligiousNot devout or pious
- worldlyExperienced in practical affairs
- temporalRelating to chronology
profane · lay · civil · godless · unreligious · mundane · earthly · nonsacred · unholy · desacralized
lapsed
Ended through neglect
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
- backsliderOne who reverts
- defectorOne who abandons allegiance
apostate · nonpracticing · inactive · estranged · wayward · strayed · departed · disengaged · ex-member · dropout
churchlesschurched
Admitted to congregation
church-going · church-affiliated · congregational · denominational · parishioner
church, churches, churchyard, churchman, churchly, churchgoer, churchgoers, churchwarden, churchwardens