AMP: Let's do a trade-off!

The pew center found out that there is a large minority of people who don't affiliate them with any religion. In his program on Tuesday Dr. Mohler claimed that many of those non-affiliated ones would just be people to whom religion is so precious that they couldn't imagine narrowing it by affiliating it with any major denomination. I know this kind of argument from Germany very well. And if any religious person encounters me with it I simply, now that we started the math business, make a trade-off. Of course it would be fair to count those who cross non-affiliated for spiritual reason still religious, but now that we started trading it would be equally fair to count those 'Christians' who are just Christian for reasons of tradition, conformism or personal benefit (being employed at a church) as non-religious persons. - normally that's the point the religious people will loose their interest in doing this math quite quickly.

German for beginners:

U-Boot Christen - Christen die nur zwei mal im Jahr auftauchen.

translation

submarine Christians - Christians who just appear twice a year.
(In German the words for 'to dive up' and for 'to appear' are the same word - auftauchen - and will make this joke work)