I'm currently taking a ethics course required for my major. It's remote due to the bat flu, and we were all in a chatroom last week discussing the "Divine Command Theory" of ethics.
We all agreed that people should not follow religion blindly, and my example was people who will use religion to control and manipulate other people which can lead to people not using their own moral judgement and committing immoral acts due to mob thinking.
What shocked me is that one person said that their personal moral judgement of not following religion blindly is realizing that the Bible is flawed and the pure word of God was lost over time because it "advocates slavery" (not sure wtf they meant, since spiritual freedom vs slavery & getting set free by God is a major theme) and is "homophobic". They said that it is their moral obligation to sift the truth in the Bible from the parts modified over the years by "hateful man" in order to get close to the "true teachings". Several people in the chat said that their example was a really good one.
I always knew it was pretty bad, because I've seen people be invited to these churches more than once on campus and whenever they say "church isn't for me", the reply is something like "but we are cool with the gays we even have lesbian priests bruh and people have tattoos we aren't like other churches".
I'm not joking, they apparently they think tattoos are a selling point to want to associate with people lmao.
I've noticed this campus has a ton of Non-denominational, Unitarian, Episcopal, and Presbyterian "Christians" some of which grew up something like baptist or agnostic but then all decided that wokesters are the true voice of God in this current age and not the Bible. Now that I have to endure this ethics class, I now have the pleasure of watching them look for opportunities to spell that out expressly so they can act very smug about being the most enlightened people to ever exist.
My mother has met people in Christian groups downtown and told me that they all go to church on Sunday, but support transgender children, have black adopted trophy kids, go to pride parades, and send
concerningly young kids to sex ed classes hosted once a week at the local Unitarian Church.
Just by watching some livestreams of people walking through major cities right now you can see that plenty of these types of churches have giant BLM banners up.
Here's an excellent example of a Catholic church in San Francisco with BLM signage featuring an epic rant from Bevelyn Beatty. I linked to the timestamp and the next two minutes are definitely worth a watch, but the whole 1hr+ video of Bev and Edme's walk through San Francisco is really something. I felt a unique horror I had never felt before and it was hard to comprehend.
The religious left definitely exists.
...and not as a metaphor. Not only are many of them are openly religious, you can see an increasing amount of leftists on twitter claiming with sincerity that their trolls with burn in hell forever for being racist or homophobic. I've seen several harass Kyle-stanning accounts this week with threats of divine judgement for supporting murder and racism. Not only does the religious left exist as a group, I think they are obviously becoming more extreme and dogmatic.