Isn't it rather an indication that our religious impulses have moved onto different topics / domains, where sufficient fervor is still a required qualification for office?

I'm sure that depends on whether you believe religious impulse is a fixed and constant feature of the human psyche that requires some outlet, or whether you believe it is variable based on some set of environmental factors.

To give an example of how this could manifest: it could be that religious impulse scales with material uncertainty and is also passed down in the family environment. Under a construction like this, you would expect religious impulse to begin fading among families where there is a certainty of sufficient food and shelter, with the fade occurring over the course of multiple generations. I'm not saying this specifically is the case, just proposing one mechanism that is broadly consistent with the shape of history.

I think that a lot of people feel the need for moral certainty in their lives, and that some of them aren't satisfied with personal models thereof and want to extend them to the entire society, perhaps minus some loathed outgroup that plays the role of the Devil.

Agreed...this is a good sign in many regards.

I'm not woke. I haven't lost my job, been deplatformed, or been branded a "MAGAT". But I tend to not frequent platforms popular with the Elect, I never give out my real name or current employer, and I refuse to talk politics with the Elect. When possible I block them on sight as I do alt-reich cultists. Nor do I get involved with DEI initiatives at work, even if only to oppose them. I just refuse to care, and my silence is ultraviolence.

So you are virtually underground...kind of like some religious groups persecuted in countries (Hindus in Pakistan, Christians in China under the CCP).

Agree, that this is the best strategy for now. The good news is, like everything else, the "woke" religion is also impermanent.

Underground is where the interesting stuff happens, and I don't see myself as persecuted so I care little for the comparison. Don't mistake me for one sympathetic to your cause. I despise authoritarians of all kinds, left, right, and center.

Compare to "Science denier" as a pejorative.