The Bible Isn't Old

The United States I grew up in 40-ish years ago is significantly different than the United States of today. A nation and its people is always at odds with an Empire. The Empire is evil. It always is. It makes use of the worst aspects of human nature to achieve its ends, so it's repugnant to everyone. Most people want to pursue a good, virtuous life, even if they miss the mark more often than not, and even if they horribly miss the mark, but wish they didn't. The Bible is actually relatively young compared to all the iterations of Empires. At least thousands of years of Empires rose and fell before the Bible was compiled.

Advice in the bible that seemed archaic a few years ago, now seems timely, like it was written yesterday. For example Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

There are admonitions against tattoos and body modification as well. It really isn't apparent why all this stuff is in the Bible until you see the Empire needs men to put on women's clothes and needs people to be getting tattoos. The natural law, which is what the Bible seeks to codify (which might be a problem in itself), is orthogonal to the interests of the Empire--an alien will that's imposed on the people.

There's no Empire that's in accordance with the natural law. The Empire is necessarily an abomination.