Mike, I hope I put this the right way...
There are some of us in the group who do religion as their profession. Your request earlier in the week to cut the religion s** sounded to me like someone asking you to stop talking about your ukulele customers. We all share talk about our work days in here - for some of us that happens to involve religion, since, you know - that's work.
When Cashew was around a lot more she'd sometimes share her beliefs - she labeled them pagan, I believe. I was always happy to hear it because it was a part of who she is. When Michael and Jan talk about religion I've never felt they've been proselytizing - it has sounded to me like they're talking about their vocation.
Definitely if any of us, no matter the religion, are trying to push it on others then I'm the first to agree with you - there's no place for that in here. But, like discussions of diabetic diets, favorite restaurants in Huntington Beach, knitting, and many other things, I tend to skip over the things that don't interest me.
I hope we can all respect that sharing bits and pieces of each other's day-to-day lives is just something that happens in group conversations, and not all of it applies to or is interesting to everybody in the group. I'd just hate for the people to do religion as a profession to have to censor themselves more than anybody else simply because their day-to-day lives happen to contain religion.
As for the passive aggressive crack? Yeah, Michael has a pretty dry communication style. But on the other hand you kind of said his profession is s**, so it should all be equal there, eh?