>>13447344 pb

also known as making sure there are plenty of young hot heads available to protest.

>>13447345 pb

That us the strange thing about people who see the bible as the only true world of God. God is portrayed in the bible as only really caring about his chosen people, and the further along you get in the story, the more it becomes apparent he only cares about a subset of that group. People yell about how they know God is on their side, but using the bible as the measure, more likely than not, God is not on their side and their chances of being saved physically or spiritually is very very low per the auxiliary explanations of who is going to make it.

Of course, people latch on to easy to digest things like 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that who so ever believes in him shall not parish but have eternal life'. From that standpoint, the message is clear and hopeful, but dig a little deeper and the story gets much darker and harder to see how the 'who so ever' can refer to that vast human population.

For me, here in lies the difficulty with taking the bible in its entirety as a advantageous guidebook for most people outside Israelites who want to try to live up to being the few within the chosen. On the other hand, as a part of a much larger study of writings that are trying to explain humanity, its place in creation, and the unseen (and possibly more important) parts of man, the bible contains many edifying and sometimes unique paths worth contemplating.

As for the bible working as a supporting document for Patriot and freedom loving people, the ideas exist in it; but using the Israelites to prove a point about God intervening on behalf of one or another faction on earth is following more of a narrative than what the book says.