I dont know the actual solution to this problem. At least for the religeous folks, it will have to involve religeous figures demonstrating acceptance and disavowing sects that refuse along with a lot of actual progress and exposure to get people to empathise and humanise lgbtq+ people and realise that theyre not a threat. Its possible, its actually quite easy once the balls rolling, but its a difficult thing to do to start i think.
In that regard, especially protestant churches are like the open source community: You don’t like what your church is doing? Just fork it and create a new variant that is even more radical.
In the case of the catholic church and other churches with centralized authority it’s more like “Let’s ignore what the Pope says and instead be holier than the Pope, but with holy we mean radical”.
Tbh, I don’t think the base problem is religion/churches here. The base problem is that a huge portion of the population are incredibly fearful and insecure, often bordering (or venturing deeply) into the territory of anxiety disorders. And instead of that getting addressed in therapy, populists (both political and religious) abuse that fear and insecurity to gain power.
The real solution would be easily available free therapy for everyone, preferably during young age, to make sure that at least the large majority of people enter adult life without being petrified of their own shadow.
In that regard, especially protestant churches are like the open source community: You don’t like what your church is doing? Just fork it and create a new variant that is even more radical.
In the case of the catholic church and other churches with centralized authority it’s more like “Let’s ignore what the Pope says and instead be holier than the Pope, but with holy we mean radical”.
Tbh, I don’t think the base problem is religion/churches here. The base problem is that a huge portion of the population are incredibly fearful and insecure, often bordering (or venturing deeply) into the territory of anxiety disorders. And instead of that getting addressed in therapy, populists (both political and religious) abuse that fear and insecurity to gain power.
The real solution would be easily available free therapy for everyone, preferably during young age, to make sure that at least the large majority of people enter adult life without being petrified of their own shadow.