The great levitical enterprise had its inadvertent bowel movement moment and James, the Lord’s brother, tried to make the Way a public crap shoot.  The slave economy of Egypt was good for making monuments of life, death and life after death, and all the monumental cultures are tourist attractions or interesting ruins.  Pathetic describes the little nations courting money and technology from the big merchandising nations, and nations is a poor description for gangster squads posing as responsible and respectable states. 

Leave Jesus and Moses out of your patriot games

If the devil himself can be transformed into a messenger of light why should people not be wary of criminal types having access to the levers of power?  Is that not the reason for faith being a matter of the adult heart?