Religion in HP

[reincineir]

No: HPFGUIDX 40456

Something that has been bothering me for a while: what is everyone's 
take on religion in the HP wizarding world? They have references to 
and practice such holidays as Christmas and Easter, yet it doesn't 
seem to make sense that they would be Christian, since in the Bible it 
was said that "You shall not allow a sorcerer/ess to live." Perhaps 
wizards are Christian, and regard sorcery as different from wizarding 
magic (perhaps sorcery is what the Dark Wizards practice?) and thus 
abide by that rule by hunting out the practitioners of sorcery... but 
that seems like a stretch, and wizards on the whole seem to be a very 
pragmatic people. 

All of the normal things they deal with every day- giants, vampires, 
magic itself- are supernatural in Muggle eyes, which perhaps makes 
wizards seem beyond Muggle religion as we know it... but do wizards 
have their own concept of the supernatural themselves? Is there 
anything that is supernatural to -them- (other than Muggle science) as 
their world is supernatural to us? Does it seem like wizards would 
have/believe in angels? Demons? Gods?

-Rei