It's not really logical. Pantheon is pantheon. If I believe in Spirit of the Deserts and then some great prophet comes and says SotD had a Son and his name was Brian (story unrelated) then I still believe in those SotD, right?
In civ tems - let's take 3 cities and pantheon X and religion Y based on that pantheon:
- 10 pop - 9 pop rel Y - pantheon works, ppl believe in pantheon and religion
- 3 pop - 2 pop believe in pantheon X, 1 in religion Y - pantheon works;
- 5 pop - 2 pop panth X, 2 pop religion Y, 1 undecided - no yields, despite 4 ppl actually believe in patheon X. This hardly makes sense, as 80% of the city believe in that pantheon.