Ivor - you say "I'm still intrigued that astrology is forbidden to go anywhere that is not testable/reproducible, and religion is so allowed."

Religion and astrology are both allowed to go anywhere they want. But when they venture into making specific claims that can be tested, I reserve for myself the right to test them. Perhaps you can see why I do not belong to any named or organized religion - they all make claims that are demonstrably false. Yet I do not give up on religion as a concept. It's just that to avoid a mental partitioning, wherein I use one thought process at some times, and another thought process at others, my religion has to be flexible enough (hmmm, flexible religion - an oxymoron?) to avoid conflict with the world's ever-expanding body of knowledge gained through science. Who knows, there may come a time when I am forced to become an atheist. However I doubt this, because (again as Carl Sagan described it), as the "bubble of knowledge" expands into the darkness of ignorance, its surface area (i.e. our boundary with ignorance) increases as the cube of its radius.