Well guess who's here to raise the tone! Do put me right, point by point, or simply retreat into your over-gusty insanity.

I'm of a similar view, actually, when it comes to music as Vladimir Ashkenazy. It's a complete bloody mystery to me. Of course, if you have evidence that Bach, Beethoven or anyone else wrote music driven or significantly influenced by their faith, let's have it! Let's agree, though, that the fact that a bloke took communion and/or played the organ in church, or even that he composed music around religious subjects (they, er, had to do that to make a living...) is not that evidence, as much as many a faith-wallah would like to claim it to be so. I'm actually telling you what I don't know, if you think about it. Which you don't, cos you can't! :-)