You just want religion to be like someone's favorite ice cream flavor: a pointless individual preference that might be fine for the person holding to it, but irrelevant to everyone else.

Well religion isn't so unimportant as that, and Christianity is the only belief system or worldview that makes sense of reality as we know it and shouldn't be discarded as flippantly.

And yes, orthodox Christian beliefs certainly are the target for destruction since they are incompatible with the atheistic utopia that many want to enact.

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Many people just dont want religion to control their body or their lives. If others chose to do so, okay.

1. Many people just don't want atheistic naturalism to dictate the cultural reality we live in and believe the reality of God should be allowed in the public sphere, even if it isn't accepted by each individual.

2. It seems as though you're referencing abortion with your comment about controlling ones body. You should know by now that the issue isn't about controlling anyone's body but preventing another body from being destroyed.

3. You say it's OK if others chose to have religion "control their body or their lives", but what basis do you have to say what anyone does for themselves or others is "okay"? This gets down to presuppositions and worldviews again.

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The other issue is that this board treats Christianity as monolithic with one political party.

Orthodox, Biblical Christianity does seem to be pretty monolithic with one political party.

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We have plenty of Christians in the Democratic party. The difference is what people prioritize. Many Leftwing Baptist prioritize fair and hospitable of your fellow citizen over the issues of abortion for example.

The difference is how seriously people take their faith and/or what they view as acceptable to God within their faith.

Many professing Christians don't actually know what the Bible teaches. They hear some feel-good stories about helping others and think that all that matters in life is "social justice", as if ethics are exclusive to Christianity (though only Christianity has a rational basis for ethics). God's glory is not priority #1 for these people (and neither is God's truth) and therefore they apply the Christian moral ethic to the state and look to the state to be our savior instead of God through Christ.

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But if Christianity died, it would just be replaced by a different belief system. Human civilization existed long before Christianity. Actually, many historians agree that Christianity was one if many factors that collapsed Rome.

If Christian doctrine is true, civilization existed before Christianity but the truth of Christianity existed before civilization.