Non religious theists?

[David Henson]

I couldn't say whether these kinds of people always existed or are just more visible through the medium of the Internet, but it isn't surprising to me that more and more people want to distance themselves from organized religion or mass hysteria of any kind. People are getting tired of being misguided by religion, politics, and the media.

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Because religion isn't belief in a god or gods. Religions like some forms of Buddhism are atheistic in nature.

Theism is the belief in a god or gods. Atheism is the disbelief in such things.

Religions tend to use one or the other as a core belief in its belief system, although what is more usual of religions is to have some form of belief concerning existence, the nature of the universe, meanings, etc. Religions also tend to have devotional rituals associated with them, and are largely connected with groups of people believing together, rather than any individual person's belief.

A person can believe in God, pray to that God, follow the teachings of Jesus, study the Bible, and still claim (accurately) that they are not religious in that their beliefs are personal and not part of some group dogma. They might well fall under the category of religion in regards to their actual beliefs concerning cause, nature, meaning of the universe though.

Very well said.