Re: I sometimes wonder whether Bitcoin has established a religion.
From what I've seen, most of the Bitcoin maximalists use anything but math and logic. The Bitcoin researchers and developers do, but that's not the average audience of Bitcoin today 
You've "miscalculated" the "average audience", but that can happen easily.
One tip: don't take the numbers by the noise, there will always be some noisier ones which will want to make you think they do represent the majority. And if maybe sometimes they do, it's a seldom case.
And another tip: most bitcoiners may not be maximalists.