How do we work the "human behavior" angle into this one?

Followup question, is this really any different than the bible?

Misogynistic societies create misogynistic religions. Most societies are misogynistic, at least to some degree so, most religions are, as well.

Simple.

Religion is divinely inspired and as such can't possibly be nefarious. You just need to think harder about how they just aren't doing it right.

Please don't ask me to think any further.

It just seems kinda funny that for pretty much all of recorded history, organized religion dominated virtually the entire political spectrum yet wasn't able to even make a dent in the trappings of "human nature". Only when societies became more enlightened and secular forces started to take over did we see a significant departure from some of the worst of it.

Yet somehow we must believe all that time religionists just weren't doing it right because they just didn't understand what their god was trying to tell them and the only way forward is to embrace that which conserved the status quo for so long.

that those religions reflect human nature. In fact, they tend to reinforce and create apologetics for that "human" nature.

Where their are kings, religions support kings. Where there is misogyny, religions support misogyny. That's because the human nature came before the religions. How could it be otherwise?

There were humans before there were religions. All religions are the product of the human mind, including human nature and all else.

this is really just "human behavior"? I mean what's the point of religion if at the end of the day it just reinforces the worst of human behavior? Seems like the exact opposite of the whole idea.

I hold that it really has no point, other than to reflect the culture that founded it.

Religion is a human-created thing. It has no other origin. That is demonstrated by the large variety of religions that have existed and still exist. If religion were independent of human beings, there would be just one religion. Clearly, that is not the case. Religions, like the deities they imagine, are many and varied.

Look at Christianity. It exists in a bewildering number of forms. Thousands of distinct versions of it, but all with the same overall name. In many cases, followers of one version consider the others to be invalid. Wars have been fought over the varieties of Christianity. All the work of human beings. Any deity worth its salt would put paid to all that confusion. But, since deities are only imaginary entities, they have no power at all.