I was listening to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday morning as host Rachel Martin interviewed singer/songwriter Amy Grant about being "unabashedly spiritual." And I know I probably shouldn't have let it bother me, but one brief exchange kinda did:

GRANT: ... But probably underlying all of my intention about making music, because I grew up in a family surrounded by people of faith, I've always seen music as the - it seems like the easiest way for people to bypass their preconceived notions of God, religion - all those things - and it's deeply affected spiritually. And I think that's the one thing that all people on Earth have in common, is our spiritual life. Somehow, just always having that potential to say is it possible in the right song to say something that would make somebody pause and imagine where they fit in the epic plan of God?

MARTIN: You just talked about trying to tap into something universal, something that everyone can relate to, everyone can feel something a little bigger than themselves.

GRANT: Right.

Except, no Amy and Rachel, it's not universal and it's not something we all have in common. Some of us aren't spiritual. At all. We're just not born with the spirituality gene, however we might have been raised. And the notion of having a "spiritual life" is as alien to us as our absolute atheism must seem alien to you.

I don't doubt Grant and Martin's good intentions. But it kinda irks me when people of faith unselfconsciously take on this air of open-mindedness while pretending that people like me just don't exist.