Protestants are like, "We interpret the bible for ourselves".
No; not really.
Most of you are either democrat or republican and anytime the bible says something left wing, the democrat protestant says it's god's will and the GOP protestant says it's a metaphor and God didn't mean it literally (vice versa for the right wing aspects of the bible).
Your politics determines how you interpret your religion, and if you do vice versa, then you are a theocrat (a few of the GOP Protestants will own that they are theocrats, but the Democrat Protestants never do and most from both parties don't).
I could tell them, "Both parties are tribalistic" and they will agree with me in the moment, but then go back to their partisan ways.
If the bile says to do X (assuming X doesn't harm others significantly), then the religious person should personally do X and encourage their followers to do X while not forcing X on others. X can be helping the poor or waiting until marriage; it's irrelevant what party it's coded too.
