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The walk helped a bit.
It is very easy to be angry at religion for causing so many moral blindspots.
I have no love for most Abrahamic faith traditions, although I sorely appreciate the people trying to make the best of horrible stories, crafting something better out of the nicer bits.
But it's not just religion. It's comfort.
So many people who live with *more* are quick to judge people whose access to resources is extremely limited.
Relative safety is impressively good at making us cruel.
*And when it comes to religion, to be clear: if it wasn't our current lone holdout from the Canaanite pantheon of gods, it would have been some other pantheon before that - or whatever pantheon we create next. Specific faiths are just a wrapper for deeper human behaviours in our authority-seeking group species. Getting rid of any specific wrapper doesn't change our underlying tribalism. This is why I sorely appreciate the people trying to lean into the nicer parts of our cultural lore today.