Just because a 'thing' is large and over encompassing in scale/numbers, doesn't necessarily make it '100% good and acceptable'. I do not wish to elaborate further keeping myself outta contention.

Churches, temples, houses of worship are inhabited by humanity in an imperfect state.

'Faith' itself can be beautiful, fulfilling, edifying, uplifting, a vehicle, etc. But humans can desecrate its 'way' and ruin it.

is missing from within the group. There is just diversion. We see it here, even on DU. Elsewhere, it is pretty much universal. There is a sort of excuse in the "judge not, lest ye also be judged," but there are other verses that encourage Christians to confront those who do wrong, with a specific order in which to do it.

Diversion is not condemnation. We need some condemnation within the overall belief system. We're not seeing it, here or elsewhere.

Another condemnation was posted from the Standing Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America, (IIRC).

These were distributed community wise following the disturbing and disgusting incident in Charlottesville.

I gotta find/retrieve an email from our priest (written by another) regarding last year's GE specifically.

It is the apolitical SOP in Orthodox temples. Unless a 'shepherd' veers off. Oops, not good.

What is needed is wholesale public condemnation of people who hide their intolerance and ill will behind religion.

I got a ole fashion peach basket from the 1950's .
You want I should grab it, stand on my corner and preach? 🤣,🤗,😇

I would invite a ton of unwanted tomatoe (thanx dan
quayle) throwing.

I 'call' people in my proximity on distorted, misinterpreted, and conveniently missing interpretation of Holy Scripture.

Hey now, one guy in my husband's workplace is 'turning'. One down ☑, tons to go.

that this or that rotten person or group isn't Christian at all (or Muslim, or whatever) because real Christians (etc.) don't act that way.

This is very convenient. You simply define "Christian" (etc.) so as to exclude everyone whose behavior you don't like. Then there's no such thing as a bad Christian (etc.) so there's never any need to confront or condemn them.

but we can also praise those actions that are progressive.

I grow weary and frustrated also, and perhaps suspicious, when I find people who seem compelled to criticize every action taken by a religious group, even progressive actions that they themselves might agree with.

Simply an observation.

seems to work well

It makes you choose between cozying up to the powers that be by defending the group identity, and risking the social consequences (and internal identity crisis) of seeming to "take sides" against the group, even in the name of making the group better. One way to resolve the identity crisis is to recenter the group on your own personal identity as a group member, and deny it to the people doing the things you are criticizing. Hence the "no true scotsman" thing.