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Final-Fan said:
trestres said:

He never brought up religion...

He's going by the philosophic study of God. Someone doesn't necessarily need to be religious to believe in God. I agree with you though that religions are fabricated, but he never brought up religion, you did.

Theologians aren't necessarily religious either.

You keep using that word, "religious".  I do not think it means what you think it means. 

Theologians pretty much by definition study religious concepts about God.  I think it would be extremely rare to find a theologian who believed in God but wasn't religious. 

I had the impression that GameOver was interested in the omnipotence question because it was important to his conception of God.  If so, he's religious IMO. 

I'm not religious, at least in the sense of following a specific religion. I'm a deist (maybe agnostic leaning deist depending on the day). Omnipotence is important to my conception of God, but this does not make me religious (difference between deism and theism).

Yes, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a theologian who is non-religious, but this does not mean that all the questions they address are religious. To give some examples, the ontological argument, cosmological argument, and design argument are all discussed by many theologians, but they are not explicitly religious. Even if these arguments could prove that God existed, they would not prove which religion is correct. The same applies to characteristics of God such as omnipotence, omniscience, and eternality . They will be discussed by theologians, but they are not explicitly religious.