Question for those who say religion should be kept out of politics

The secular consensus in today’s world is that no one has the right to impose their religious beliefs on others, and it seems many Christians have adopted this dogma.

I think this statement is absurd when you think about it more closely, and particularly absurd if you’re a person who is religious or values religious expression and at the same time holds the view that the religious should stay out of the secular.

The question is, which do you value more, your faith or your political ideology? Or asked another way, which do you think a religious person ought to value more?

If your answer is your faith, then it’s clearly absurd to think a secular ideology should be able to dictate where the influence of your faith ends, especially when your faith does have things to say about the government.

If your answer is the ideology, then what you’re really saying is we all have to assume secularism as our primary worldview and adjust our religions accordingly.

If you try to answer both equally, you have to non-arbitrarily explain where and why the authority of the one stops and the other begins.

My overarching point is, the narrative of religious pluralism and indifferentism is incoherent. You can’t have this worldview where competing ideologies are tolerated equally. If you’re secular, you need to be consistent and reject religious influence not by imposing the dictates of your worldview on people with another worldview, but by rejecting their worldview as false.

And if you’re a Christian or otherwise religious person, you need to own your faith completely and not accept secular dogmas being imposed on you.

TL;DR: Religious pluralism is incoherent because it doesn’t work, and for Christians it’s just a tacit admission that you accept the whims and dictates of secular ideology over your faith