Did network squeamishness about religion kill Kings?

In a story on Newsarama, Kings creator Michael Green alleges that NBC effectively kept his parallel-universe adaptation of the King David story from reaching its audience by leaving its biblical basis out of the promos:

"When the time came for the marketing, there was a very deliberate, outspoken, loud desire articulated by them that, 'We are not going to say King David.' They were scared to say King David. They just felt that that would be detrimental to the show," Green explained. "I thought