Amiga as a religion or religious cult seems to be widely overstated as such. A little web research reveals that most of this can be attributed to a cult following of non-religious nature:
The following entry by Jaz King at http://www.dorktionary.com gives such an indication of its cult status:
"amiganut \\& mE-g& n&t\\ n Cult-like group of Jason Roberts followers, known to believe that Amiga keyboards are really under-sized computers capable of doing literally anything that ANY other computer can or will be able to do in the foreseeable future. Religion is based on the 1988 sacred utterance (by Jason Roberts) "my Amiga can do that", now a repetitive mantra chanted by amiganut devotees worldwide."
There do exist certain references to more severe enthusiasts, however. For instance, at the first Amiga Technologies GmbH press conference in 1995, the company released pictures of a proposed logo which looked similar to L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology logo and amiga zealots made comments such as "Praise the Lord! The Amiga is saved!".
This example seems to provide much of the context of the amiga-religion connection, that is, there are many devout religious amiga users who might blur the lines between their religion and the amiga.
A more recent exhibit of such behavior stems from one William F. Maddock who roams amiga message boards dousing comments with heavy religious undertones.
For more information, see alt.religion.amiga, http://www.amigaworld.net or http://www.amiga.org.
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