Christianity has been practiced for over 2000 years in often horrible environments. Oddly enough it seems to do well in times and areas where repression is the rule. So, I don’t buy the idea that Christianity or even all forms of secular personal freedom need rely on a narrow political environment to flourish.
By politics I mean electoral, governmental politics. Christians should avoid it like the plague.
You keep holding on to those old fairytales, but REAL history tells us all those muslim countries USED to be Christian.
Furthermore, one of the first crises of the Ancient Church was what to do with “believers” who recanted under persecution, then survived the ordeal. The Bible was never very clear about whether a Bishop who recanted his faith is entitled to reclaim his office once he’s safe again.
The whole tradition of praying to saints started out as reverence for the earthly remains of faithful martyrs. So it’s not like either side is going to abandon their position, easily.
Personally, I’d rather address the problem of being allowed to live as a professing Christian by making sure the political climate is conducive to Christian practices, than disdaining a little forethought, and suffering the unnecessary consequences of allowing pagans to make all the policy decisions for me.