Why doesn't Dracula just go after the church?
Because he makes comments multiple times that suggest he's been wanting an excuse to have a Purge for quite some time, and Lisa was the only thing stopping it.
Generally I agree with you, but this one's a stretch. The plot may not be to your liking, but it
does explain why he goes after everyone and not just Discount Frollo.
the lowest hanging fruit: the church is evil!
The only people who interpret the show's message as anti-religion or anti-church are either religious people looking for something to take as blame or people who are already anti-church looking for a dog in their corner.
The show doesn't spend all its time differentiating asshole clergy from non-asshole believers for no reason.
If the common people are supposedly afraid of the church, then why do they all seem to express surprise and volatility when Trevor spills the beans on the actions of the bearded priest who was fucking with the old guy? Why go to the lengths of pointing out the problems with a
priest carrying a thief's dagger at all times or bullying an old man who'd done no wrong if not to establish this point?
And besides, Shankar's already confirmed his intentions on the front regarding the church. Yes, I've seen and fully expect people to continue raising the argument that "well one random good priest that made holy water isn't enough to compensate the obvious CHURCH IS EVIL vibes the rest of the show gives off!", but that's only half-right and here's why.
Correct, one random schmuck with ten seconds of screentime isn't a very good buffer for the hour or so featuring the Bishop and whatnot. But let's not act like that's a fair point in a four-episode extended pilot. Good luck properly defining the nuances and grey-area that is religious morality and fanaticism in the span of 160 minutes when you have all this other shit to lay out for the base plot. It's just not happening. Antagonists need to be established early with nuances relating to them following suit, and that's all that was done.
Note that I'm not necessarily saying it was done
well or even as well as it could've or should've been, but that it
was done in some measure at least.
I'm all for denoting the flaws in the show, but c'mon people, at least denote them for the right reasons. This thing with the show being anti-church is a serious stretch based on assumptions and conceptions from a rushed pilot season that charges through a
lot of its important subject matter haphazardly.