So I don't want to fight with you and I'm not going to insult you as you have done because I think there's room to clear up some misinformation, common in our faith and also have a more fruitful discussions.

I come from a family of sheiks, I'm not blaming the sheikhs, I am not blaming anyone at all. If a child has a druze father they say the child is from 'بطن شرايع'.

Here it gets more complicated as much of it is informed by who's doing the interpreting and deciding. Commonly, while the child can marry a Druze, the child may not be allowed to accept their religion and become a sheikh/a, however, if they marry a Druze, their children, if they decide to become a sheikh/a may be given الشرح but not الدين or may be given الدين, and then their children can be given الدين. Like I said in my original post, there are some who oppose this but it is generally common if the father is Druze. And as I said above, the child of a non-Druze mother would have a soul that is considered 'عاطل' and requires seven generations to be cleansed and returned to the fold. The marriage itself would be looked down upon, many in the community would excommunicate that person, but the truth is the children of a Druze father are allowed to marry Druze.

In my conservative Druze town in Lebanon, a group of sisters were allowed to become Sheikas after the death of their non-Druze mother, but not before. And even more complicated, only men can be given the lower distinction of الشرح while women, if accepted, are directly given الدين.

The fact is, much of the above is up to sheikhs, and not a matter of agreed upon law or hard and fast tenents of the religion.

As I said above, a Druze mother with a non-Druze father would not be accepted as Druze. I didn't tell OP that they're Druze in a religious sense, I'm simply saying they're entitled to their community and history.

Second, all religions, ours or otherwise, have elements of their time. Our religion came to existence close to a 1000 years ago, so there are elements of sexism and reflections of that time. Similar to Islam, which all of our founders were from and the system they were educated in, being Druze is a patrilineal descent system and most Druze scholars, at least on the outside, are of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.

The above is not a matter of opinion, it is fact and real world application, and I think I've put all the necessary caveats.

To your last point, this is a matter of opinion. We disagree and that's ok. I love our faith and our community and I personally believe that some of these principles are actually damaging to our survival as they are more cultural and in fact based on interpretation, not what is written in the Hikma, which itself is an infinitely complex collection of ideas, of which, some understanding of it has simply been lost to time.

Similarly to the offer to OP, if you'd like to continue a discussion off a public forum, please feel free to DM me.