Well done for sticking to your guns. As you say, there are parallels between music and religion and although I didn't vote on your pic, I'd probably have given a high score on the stength of the phot, which is incidentally pretty good :-)
sorry, but as a photographer your job is to convince me.
photographically, this is a nice picture. However, I am not convinced that this is religious.
I do't think my job is to convice you of anything but I would like you to open your mind, religion and music has been always very close together, don't you sing in churches?
Religion is not only churches, crosses, priests and the classic understandidng of it.
I do not believe in religion but I believe in faith, and believing with the heart in the music a band do is faith.
I could have posted a church and get better points than I did, but I choose not to.