I believe he's right that religion isn't simple, and the census has far too few options. And so I offer you the draft Beaker Venn Census Diagram. All you would have to do, were the Beaker solution to be adopted, would be to put an "X" in the diagram and just hand it over to the census collector.
A few caveats - this is definitely draft. And to have three (or even four) dimensions to represent overlaps would be useful. The position of Sikhs, and the need for Christianity to exist in a hypothetical, paradoxical overlap between monotheism and polytheism, need to be clarified. And Unitarian Universalists are so hard to categorise - so hard even they probably can't do it. Rather than come up with a 4-dimensional hyper-Beaker-venn, this will probably have to wait for our follow-up Entity Relationship diagram. And please don't get upset about the word "invention". It can just mean "discovery" - as in "the Invention of the Cross". Or there again, it does mean "made up" as well.
Why confine Anglican to the "Abrahamic / Agnostic" overlap? Surely one of the joys of the C of E is that you can be a member and position yourself almost anwhere on the diagram.
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