imo they use religious freedom like a get-out-of-jail-free card to avoid being forced to critically think, for some that's ALL they use spirituality for, for others, to various degrees, it's a COMBO of critical thinking & spiritual bypassing that is problematic in a correlation to that same degree
Jesus was teaching his followers to beat their swords into plowshares. Murca responds by being the most-armed nation on earth. Those hypocrites claiming Christianity would deport Jesus on sight today.
"I do not come to bring peace, but a sword" - also Jesus people find whatever they want to see in his words imo it depends on what the people who show you Jesus emphasize what degree of freedom-to-control we settle on and white American X-ians heavily tilt towards control