"why are you a christian when they hate queer people?"
well 1) your experiences are not universal and 2)
i do actually believe this stuff. i do believe that God created the universe. i do believe he spoke to the jewish people and made an eternal covenant with them, and i do believe he incarnated himself as a human and was born of a human woman. i do believe he became a religious teacher, traveling around the land we now call the levant. i do believe he was murdered but then came back to life three days later. i do believe that the descendants of his students have more or less kept the faith of their elders since then, and i believe that god still guides them in spirit today. i do believe that the dead will be raised to eternal life to live with God.
some of these things i believe more or less depending on the day, but it's the story i cling to, and i didn't get to choose that that's what gives my life meaning. i don't get to just drop it because sometimes it's socio-culturally inconvenient. because it's what i believe. some of us really do believe in things