I especially agree with this: "...I would suggest from what you say that your discomfort is less with your faith (or lack thereof) and more with the kind of people who publically declare themselves as Christian these days." I think that's really true. Often, the people who care/are nosy enough to ask can make you feel like you've answered incorrectly and immorally if the answer isn't the same faith as theirs, or at the very least isn't Christian.
I think it's interesting/funny that England, which has an official state religion and doesn't make a big deal about it, is so much more laid back about Christianity... from what I've heard and read, it just doesn't enter into public discourse or politics. My impression of a C of E vicar is of somebody warm and cuddly and accepting... as in Eddie Izzard's "cake or death?" Either choice is fine with him. 
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