I hear you!

There’s a good exception to that rule though, the satanic temple (https://thesatanictemple.com/)! They’re doing wonders using religion to push actual good values, they’re mission is rather nice:

“The Mission Of The Satanic Temple Is To Encourage Benevolence And Empathy, Reject Tyrannical Authority, Advocate Practical Common Sense, Oppose Injustice, And Undertake Noble Pursuits.”

Homosexuality isn’t immoral there… just conisder the huge banner right in the middle of their site. :)

They’re a nice counter weight to the “regular” religions really.

Christian Logic:

1. All-knowing, all-powerful God, all-good God creates humans.
2. Since he knows everything, he’ll know if someone turns out to be gay
3. He creates them anyway
4. He sends them to hell for it
5. But they could totally get redemption if they become something other than how they were made, and only commit the Christian-allowable sins (like divorce and greed), but not the icky homosexual one

The funny thing is, if you study the history of various religions throughout history, is that when religions have these dogmas they have them to their own detriment. People often have a place or even need for metaphysics and spirituality but reject religions because they have an “all or nothing” approach to them, at least officially.

That said, many people accept their religious texts to be metaphorical and not literal, so even though there’s homophobia in Abraham’s texts for example, they go “yeah, but that’s the characters of the story expressing their homophobia, not the book telling me to be homophobic”.

Sorry this was a bit rambling but I genuinely find it sad that religious institutions of the modern era are so thoroughly out of touch yet also seemingly impossible to dismantle, even though at one point many of these religions were subversive, persecuted, and radical and they dismantled previous religions.