That's unfortunately not how it works. The religious very often use their religion as an excuse to control other peoples' lives.

I’m going to vote for the guy who shares my religious values, and he’s going to make the thing you’re doing illegal

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I see what you did there.

Out of curiousity, which one is this?

And whether you look under the rug, is that true in all texts of the religion?

You can have that worldview without religion.

shame we can't prevent them from voting about it.

if the person on the counter says it disagrees with their religion

"Dont go to the pharmacy on wednesdays because that bitch Mary is on shift."

I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.

I would say that if "you" won't perform an abortion, "you" are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where "you" will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.

I think because most religious tenets are more restrictive rather than permissive, it's easy to say "everyone should have the freedom to practice their own religion.", but the part that gets left out is "including no religion at all." and that is an important distinction.

Whenever I meet these types of psycho Christian nationalists who think it's A-OK to impose their own regressive views on others by rewriting the law to be a reflection of their holy text, I just fire back with an even more regressive, barbaric interpretation of a religious commandment.

"I worship Ba'al Hamon, and my religion says I must sacrifice an infant child to gain his favor. I will lobby my congressmen to change the law to add an exception to infanticide when performing a ritualistic blood offering. Oh, what's that? You don't like that? Gee, and you were so gung-ho about forcing people to abide by your religious demands a second ago. I thought we were cool with forcing our beliefs on other people?"

If your religion can't coexist with nonbelievers without forcibly bending them to your rules, it's a shit religion.

"My religion says I shouldn't vaccinate my kids" Fuck off.

You provided a good counterpoint. These self-imposed restrictions can become obstructive or even weaponized. It's like a variation of weaponized incompetence.

These restrictions can also lead to people making onerous demands of others to accommodate.

What about the landlords? Are they also universally followed?

No, the key word is Religion. It's all fundamentalism, just different intensities.

Given they're all made up... at this point we're better off making up a religion that enforces actually good behaviour like taking vaccines and not bothering people with different sexualities/gender identities/etc.

I think the disconnect comes from the phrasing of the first sentence. Perhaps combine it with the third?

I was never a coffee drinker for unrelated reasons, and also never acquired the taste for it even though the smell is generally nice.

But now I'm in my 40s and have multiple medical conditions (i.e., more than just the AuDHD, lol) that are treated with stimulants, so I will usually supplement my adderall with a cup of coffee in the morning and one at lunch time.

The nice thing is that I don't have decades of tolerance and habit around the stuff, so it is still nice and potent. Instead of adding a bunch of junk to it, I just let it cool off then drink it quickly or add a chocolate protein shake to it for a few breakfast calories if I didn't eat.

Plus even though I don't like the taste I think the coffee at work is decent because it's a machine that grinds whole beans, and the operations manager for our location fills the hopper with the beans himself. Some Starbucks somebody gave me recently tasted rotten in comparison. And that's not "mischievous child" rotten, that's carcass rotten.

A law isn't necessarily bad just because religion might agree with it. Murder is wrong, and religion agrees with that. We can't allow murder, simply because it violates a religious code. That's taking a worthy concept - purging religious influence from government - and turning it into the same incoherent dogma which describes much of religion.