I'd say that it's unavoidable.
Hoomans can avoid great amounts of anything if they choose to, they just never do. Too much work. Hoomans are lazy.
Religion is very much a part of politics at this time in America. Mamy of us do not wish it so but the religious nut cases have rational people either outnumbered or out shouted.
May the FSM refuse to allow the Christian Nationalist,fascist, willfully ignorant, Trumpist crackpots, to outvote the nations sane people.
America is now unofficially a backwater with nuclear weapons.