Is there a religion or religious group where the main philosophy boils down to "it's all good, man"?

By unorthodox I mostly just mean there's no way a loving god would punish a woman for being, well, a woman. Or for being LGBT, or for any relationship between consenting adults. Nobody would create a race of people and then decide more than 50% of them are supposed to be treated awfully unless god is a psychopath, and I personally don't believe he is.

I've been a part of several religious traditions, each where I have a group of people who practice how I do, but what I've noticed is that usually the group I have will either outgrow it or move on in some other way, get married to someone of a different practice and adopt that, etc. When that happens I try to find another group and usually realize that my original group was an anomaly.

Someone posted on /r/asatru shortly before the sub was shut down with similar ideas to what my pagan friends and I practice and they were downvoted to hell and back for implying that the religion could be anything other than the cut and dry path it was a thousand years ago or more. According to them, anything with runes isn't 'real'. Anything where the gods have magical abilities isn't real. Anything that implies the gods are anything but metaphors or just beings that lived a long time ago but are now dead are not seen as 'real Asatru'. The Asatruar building the temples in Iceland don't even believe the gods are actual living beings. Anything ritual where music or dancing or making merry with your friends and neighbors is involved isn't considered 'real Asatru' because 'real Asatru' is about sealing yourself away from the public eye and creating a tribe of maybe a dozen people who follow the letter of the law to a T. In a little group or by myself is fine sometimes, but I'd love to find an IRL community and it sucks when you're at a festival or gathering saying "well this is our little group and this is how we celebrate/honor the gods" and everyone says "that sounds like a cool thing to do but it's not Asatru/Heathenry and it's not welcome here".

For me and for the people I joined, Asatru was about playing music, baking huge trays of food for the community, helping to clean up the neighborhood, things like that. It was very much "the gods are our bros, they're all our neighbors and good friends, and we're going to take a letter from their book and be your good friends too". The people who originally introduced me to this phrased it as "if you think god is someone you'd like to hang out with, go hiking with, or smoke a joint with, not some distant father figure who only shows up when he wants to punish you, you might like Asatru, check it out" and that's how I've been following it for the past six years.

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