Regardless of what good fellows they happen to be, the religious are indoctrinating our young and vulnerable with untruths. They exploit the poor countries, causing untold damage by saying contraception is a sin. And when I see the unbelievably rich catholic church selling off some of their prime real-estate to feed the poor, I will believe they have true altruism. Here are some pics of the obscene wealth of the vatican. Another is Bishop's house in Detroit that was for sale. Hypocrisy big time. No excuse.

Religion takes the form of the preacher.
A religious humanist (person who promotes the wellbeing of human life) will preach something promoting those values.
A religious greedy, narcissistic egomaniac will have a different gospel.

I will always resist those who prey on others, and theologians regardless of what they preach because even if I agree completely with what they want to promote; I find their reasoning polluted and disturbing.

Care for the weak. Help the poor. Peace. Empathy. Charity.
I can get behind all of these concepts. However, as soon as someone says "this is what god wants", they are opening the door to validating whatever madness the destructive religious fanatics promote.
Magical thinking is magical thinking.
It's not fair to blame the religious humanists/intellectuals but they are the backbone of the religious evil of the world.
For example: Very few Christians are comfortable with child rape or molestation. The leaders of the organization they support ARE ok with it and has gone to great lengths to make sure it keeps happening. A decision which has lost them no significant degree of support.

Like I said, I will probably agree with a lot of what your favored theologians promotes. I just will not side with any fruit of the poisonous tree.

"Be not as the hypocrites who pray in public" (roughly) what bible-Jesus said. I wish more religious people would follow this concept. However, even this is a seed of disaster IF your reasoning to follow this example is "Jesus said so in the bible", since you can't make that argument without validating everything else that falls under that definition.

What is the word of god? Why would I think that one person has it when another person does not?

A truer moniker couldn't have been chosen, but sometimes excessive wordiness doesn't really contribute to make a point or totally misses and fails. Pope Francis concerned with the quality of people's lives??? By protecting pedophile priests and publicly albeit hypocritically declaring to the contrary??? Not talking about the other dude because I never heard of this lutheran theologian nor do I care to know about any theologian, but that's just me I guess. Theology is a subject that has less than zero importance in my life, but the Argentinian Pope who is seen by many as a nice person, who talks a big game but delivers ZERO in reality, is only distinguished to me as a great hypocrite, period.

I see nothing here but rationalization. What is your point ?

All of them have failed to prove there is a god.

When I took the class; Intellectual Philosophical History of the Twentieth Century. we read Reinhold Neibuhr. His book "Moral Man, Immoral Society" became the framework from which the Cold War was rationalized.

Strictly speaking, theology is a faux discipline whose only rigor is self-referential. Its intent is to advance a particular hermeneutic (system of interpretation of the holy book of choice) and represents an attempt to understand a Being who is merely asserted and can't actually be examined. So it's pretty useless. Strictly speaking.

On the other hand, the "better" theology that you cite really amounts to philosophy with a religious disguise. It gets religious people thinking because it's supposedly theology. It's devious, in a nice way. In such theology, god for example might become "the Divine", the human striving for transcendence and understanding and meaning.

Generally I prefer my philosophy straight-up, but even secular philosophy occasionally borrows from religion -- e.g., Schopenhauer borrowed concepts from Buddhism. Religion is not a particularly rich or reliable source of ideas, but it does have them now and again, when it doesn't take itself too seriously.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one to admire