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

For what it's worth, that's not an especially relevant passage here, as it's less to do with being open about your faith and moreso about intent. For example, those who would go to the synagogue to pray or who would give alms to make themselves feel better and appear righteous. The Bible is crystal clear that you should be openly expressing your faith to others should the intent be to spread the religion. Mark 16:15–16, for example, reads (NIV):

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."

Probably more relevant for your case are the passages along the lines of: "Look, give it the old college try, but if they aren't willing to listen, don't be a bitch about it; just move on." For example:

Matthew 5:43–44:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 7:1–3:

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

Matthew 10:13–15

If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

The Parable of the Weeds.

Etc.

Uhuh, more from your Bibble.

“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.” Matthew chapter five verse sixteen

It's the Bible, so even that passage is contradicted in another book.

It's the intent that matters here, not all public displays of faith go against the teachings of Jesus. But yeah, someone doing it just to draw attention is wrong.

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

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.

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.

innocuous

I see what you did there.

What about the landlords? Are they also universally followed?

Be cool if we could convince them that there were a limited number of souls allowed in heaven (say, 144K) and it was to their benefit to steer other away from the righteous path to enhance their chances (of course that could be what they are doing now, for all I know).

You can have that worldview without religion.

I don't care.

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.

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

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.

I don’t need religion to tell me murder is wrong. And that’s a dangerous line of thinking there as I’ve heard so many fundamentalists say “well how do you know what’s wrong and right without religion?!”