I only have experience with four or five intensely religious people that I work with, and when statements like “Jesus will protect me” come up in the context of taking basic precautions to stop spreading covid, I think the person involved loses decision-making rights as it pertains to protecting people from covid. You don’t need to go to a church to worship god when god is said to have created literally everything, so anywhere is god’s house.
The slippery slope argument you appear to be implying that the government will attempt to stop people protesting the government doesn’t really work when we had protests in the Summer, too.
I understand where you’re coming from, but I also know people are idiots. Yesterday was Black Friday, and while it was nowhere near as bad as I expected it to be at my work, there were still crowds and little in the way of social distancing, and people still half mask it which completely eliminates the point of wearing a mask for a disease that spreads through inhaling and exhaling particles. The fun thing is that wasn’t even the end of it as the same is extended, presumably to avoid huge crowds, so it’s potentially going to be an extended super-spreader event all over.
That’s one store in a relatively small city in one county in one state in the entire US. Interesting times are ahead.