Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-5507557-20130411125020/@comment-26975268-20130415213630

That's irrelevant -- point is, the Doctor saying that 7 planets believed in a religion where life originated on Akhaten is just like him saying that Saudi Arabia and Iran are Muslim. It means that the great majority of both Saudi Arabia and Iran are Muslim, and that their society is centred around Islam. The same applies to the Sun-singers.