I guess I should start this by noting, for those of you who have not been in this crack on the surface of the internet long, that I am an Atheist. My username is actually a portmanteau of heretic and infidel, both of which are synonyms for Atheist, so I could be (Atheist)(Atheist)=Atheist2.
That said, I really liked the first episode of Apparitions. I don't like all of it, like the subplot with the gay-Indian-leper acolyte, but on the whole I liked the main character and the true-believer-against-the-unseeing-system aspect. Now, I'm Atheist by way of Catholic, so the early-childhood conditioning might have made it easier for me to watch it (I actually figured out I didn't believe in God in one of those stuffy nun-inhabited rooms with little light and larger crosses during Sunday school — which, incidentally, was where one of my good friends from high school says she discovered her faith, so you know, different strokes for different folks), but I don't really know. I'd be interested to see what people of other Christian faiths, or just other faiths, think of it.