Ethiopia, as their UB is their one redeeming quality, and by far the best UB.
Can someone explain to me how the Shoshone are considered a "religious" civ?
Why should it feel odd? The whole point of this is to see which religious civs people like besides the celts, as the celts are obviously the superior choice when founding a religion.
Obviously superior? even without being prompted by Celts as an option, johncnunn, princeofnigeria and myself have all said they wouldn't take Celts first for a religious civ, just from the first page of responses. Also, the rest of the pollers take your conditions as axiomatic and therefore do not implicitly confirm or deny their preference for the Celts over the other options, so it seems difficult to claim the Celts as 'obviously the superior choice' from polling remarks so far. To claim it independently from this opinion is even more dubious.
Should have added the Moroccans and Arabs on this list.
Eh, Arabian UA does very little, and I don't see how morroco is special in any way.
Desert bias = desert folklore = You'll get a religion.
Arabia's UA helps with spreading religion directly, Morocco's UA means more places will trade with you, meaning your religion will pressure those cities.