The methane leakage problem is often wildly overstated (in no way does it make nat gas worse than coal), and it's trivially solved by stricter standards that can be achieved at 1/1000th the cost of re-wiring our entire energy system around renewables.
And if you say "but we can't trust poor countries to achieve Norway's ultra-low methane performance"...then we're back to the original problem with the net-zero fantasy in the rich world altogether. If poor countries can't be relied upon to properly seal a pipe fitting, then we've demolished the fantasy they'll voluntarily do something far more unproven, expensive and technically challenging like industrializing 3B+ people using windmills.
Calling something a religion is a lazy and disingenuous way to dismiss it. The effects of airborne and waterborne pollution on human health has been the focus of scientific investigation for centuries at least. Ecosystem destruction is not "a religious belief" - it's something which has been measured, carefully recorded and studied using scientific methods.
> at 1/1000th the cost of re-wiring our entire energy system around renewables
This is alarmist hyperbole. Renewables now account for about 35% of the global electricity generation mix. There are countless examples of countries that run grids where renewables account for more than 80% of the electricity mix. Even if you just consider wind and solar, many countries are approaching 50% penetration in the space of 20 or 25 years without "re-wiring their entire their entire energy systems".
Yes NG generation is the only fossil tech still standing in terms of being able to compete at any level with modern generation tech but it is being squeezed. Batteries surpassed NG in terms of economics for peaking sometime around 2020/2021 - which is reflected by the share of new capacity investment since then.
> industrializing 3B+ people using windmills
A windmill is a device used to mill materials that happens to be powered by wind, like a watermill, or a pepper mill or a paper/wood/etc mill. I'm not sure what that has to do with electricity generation.