All good my friend...always nice to get a little back story on our fellow users here (which in my own way, I was sort of doing myself), my mother was a devout Catholic and my father a Protestant who wasn't much for religion...and I was literally the definition of "problem child" (yes the movie)
i don't 'really' knock people for religion, I actually almost got a tattoo of Christ on my back with a female angel floating through one side of my chest and a demon ripping through my other side of the ribcage...only thing that prevented it was not finding someone who could draw it the way I wanted it.
It basic meaning was "if" there is a God, Christ (or angels) and Satan would be two sides of the same coin, his good and evil. Same with all people...a constant struggle.
I'm not religious myself, wasn't even when i wanted to have that done...but nobody can claim to know whats after life or if a higher power exists. Man did write the bible after all.
I've seen some relaxed churches like your talking about, actually know a pastor from one...and those aren't bad, its the constant preaching that kills me--everything else is for each person to decide for themselves, and I respect it...period.