I manage to avoid all religious ramblings.
Then again, I don't live in the US.
I live in a fairly small town with more churches than libraries, fast food eating, schools, and police/hospitals/fire-stations...
COMBINE.
I...I really had this town and can't wait to move...
heh, join the club. In the future if someone ever asks your religion or anything similar just tell them that you'd rather not talk about it.
Most Christians, for annoying reasons, decide it's their personal crusade in life to convert you, save your soul, and steer you off your heathen ways if you tell them you aren't one of them or one of the other major religions.
No good can come of it anyways, so just politely decline the conversation topic and they'll just look like assholes if they try to press you further, but just politely reiterate that you'd rather not and they can't really press you further.
Also, on topic: TV shows that kill off your favorite characters, then have alternate reality episodes where they're still alive and then they kill them off yet again, especially when it becomes a habit of doing it multiple times throughout the series.