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I think the biggest problem with your point is that these specific religions have core tenants that center around converting people and "saving" them. Because of that people will always be able to use whatever rationale they want to justify how they're trying to save people when they're bigoted towards them.
You might say that religion and faith isn't the problem, and you're right that it shouldn't be the problem. But right now, it is the problem. Right now religion is used around the world to purely spread bigotry under the guise of "saving" the people they're being bigoted towards.
In order for religion to not be used this way they would require massive reforms that would help push them towards a more genuinely accepting existence. But that won't happen. At least not in any of our lifetimes. These religions are so old that they get to move as slow as they fucking want to when it comes to modernization.
Religion is being used constantly as justification for being horrible people and allows followers to think they have the literal creator of the Universe behind them. There is no world that exists in the next hundred or several hundred years that does not continue to have religion be used for horrible horrible things.
So fuck it. Are there some good people in there who just happen to believe in God? Absolutely. But religion as an organized structure is really fucking over modern society.