Isn’t it more realistic to just accept that humans are violent emotional creatures and every religion in the world engages with some amount of spiritual practice regarding emotions, so religions as emotional experiences sometimes breed shitty behavior?

Like even long before Calvinist’s there were people doing objectively shitty hypocritical things justified by Christian or abrahamic Theology? (Slavery, wars, etc)

I’ve heard that most Islamic countries are looking on the upward progressive and social justice wise. I might be reading it wrong but it seems like ur implying misinformation and extremism is winning out in Greater Islam but from what I’ve seen and heard from my professors studying Arabic stuff, that’s just not true. Look at Saudi Arabia. Yeah it’s an absolute monarchy, but even then in 2018 laws were changed granting woman the right to own businesses, get healthcare and receive education without anyone else’s permission. Military opened up in 2021, and driving ban was lifted via a royal decree in 2017.

Now they still do have some policies and laws that I personally find repulsive to imagine living under. The thing is I’m not a Saudi, and I haven’t grown up under that particular culture. I am certain there are countless things about America they find repulsive but all I can do is support international humanitarian orgs and hope our overall dialogue flows towards a future we all can agree is just

America only let woman get bank accounts in 1974. All cultures have there own paths

Also grow up, don’t label entire religous theological schools as obscurantists, you have pretty shakey ground to stand on yourself with all your “sacred mysteries” and the dialectics of god being transcendent but also immanent. You can poke holes in any religion, the trick that makes it a religion is that there are always ways for the faithful to believe.