Fine. If any group turned against germ theory I'd be "religiously", by your definition, defending it. That would not make me a follower of a religion by any reasonable definition.
I'm just saying that you're equivocating the concept of "religion" by claiming that evos are religious merely because we are stoutly defending ToE against concerted attacks by religious people.
Yeah, but by their unreasonable definition you'd be a germ worshipper ;^)