But yes- I doubt there are more than a handful of educated theists not working with the bottom line already filled in.

Rationalization is an important skill of rationality. (There probably needs to be a post about that.) But anyway, I think my "theistic" intuitions are very similar to those of Thomas Aquinas, a.k.a. the rock that Catholic philosophy is built on. Like, actually similar in that we're thinking about the same decision agent and its properties, not just we're thinking about similar ideas.