But evangelical leaders warn that’s no guarantee their rank and file will stay involved in politics if Republicans abandon socially conservative issues, like abortion and gay marriage, even as they lean in on others, like banning transgender kids from participating in youth sports. In July, Trump nearly sparked a platform fight at the Republican National Convention over language that couched abortion as primarily in the hands of the states, a position anti-abortion advocates almost uniformly oppose.
We can only hope that he continues to piss them off and they abandon him.
My viewpoint is probably biased towards Christianity but religions evolve over time with populations and culture. That framework is still there. Though, in the Western World today, practicioners are mostly focused on the afterlife/living forever aspect. I feel its more apt to refer to today’s culture rather than medieval culture as religion is really made up of the current people who practice it.