Heroes S2E2 gets religion? (Spoilers)

Heroes S2E2 might be listening to me?

Mine is the only blog I read that discusses Heroes. I did see a TV Guide article today in a bookstore with a shocking number of spoilers, but mostly I'm trying to keep my Heroes palate clean for bestest first impressions. Yeah, I'm not lazy or ignorant, I'm a purest. Yeah.

My central beef with the show has been that its materialist bent ignores interesting metaphysical questions driven by religion. But episode 2 throws the questions up. The Haitian thinks God is cursing him.

The Maya Herrera character is most interesting. She is some kind of Black Madonna. Note the poisonous weeping of her impassioned self. Her brother, with unsubtle christological overtures is her bulwark and antidote. "Maya" is almost as subtle a name as "Hiro". She is plainly the genetic progeny and victim of Mayan-Marian syncretist religiousism. Her savior-brother thinks medicine/Science is the solution. We'll see.

Where is all this going? I think the eventual resolution will see religion as vacuous. If attention to religion continues, which I'm not counting on.

Other thought: We have a burgeoning pantheon of characters. We have no gay characters except, apparently, ex-Cheerleader's season 1 sidekick who was not special. For a Hollywood production that has to be intentional. Is this a dig? Can you not be a Hero if you don't contribute to gene-upping humanity?