Your post made me go and type up my own whole post about the whole thing because linking to that filtered post is just too embarassing. :-p Plus, it's now public, so anyone who's interested can read. Here if you care (http://baseballchica03.livejournal.com/610336.html).

And about the unsure question, my religion is important to me, but I don't see myself as "religious." The word has a very specific, negative connotation to me.