Do you agree that it is men and not Gods who are discriminating against our own women and gays even as we lay the blame on God?
There are a number of exceptions to the general rule. While Jesus did not oppose every evil of his day, he certainly does not seem to be the God the Jews would have chosen. And his description is of a matter who was far better man than most, if not all of us.
I think we could make similar claims for Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha).
think we should stop blaming imaginary Gods and step up to our own collective human guilt and shame
Stop blaming gods, imaginary or otherwise. Of course. But as for collective human guilt? No, I am not response for your screw ups. I have enough to handle bearing responsibility for what I've caused.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass