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* More WordofGod. "The Targeteer" is actually based on a 1980s strategic analyst called Don Brennan (who was brilliant and affable but whose talents at gardening were worse than non-existent. "We used to joke that he could kill plants just by walking into the same room with them."

* Also, Doctor Kuroneko is [[LightNovel/{{Oreimo}} Kuroneko]], just cause imagining a gothic-lolita doctor (i.e. the aforementioned Kuroneko) is somehow hilarious.

* Also, Doctor [[NamesTheSame Kuroneko]] is [[LightNovel/{{Oreimo}} Kuroneko]], just cause imagining a gothic-lolita doctor (i.e. the aforementioned Kuroneko) is somehow hilarious.

[[WMG: Yahweh and Satan were the [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Nation-tans of Heaven and Hell]].]]

To take a second look at the appearance of Salvation War. Both spiritual factions aren't really all that powerful and the legions of Hell appear more like stereotypical artistic representations of Demons, Angels, and various mythological monsters (to boot why actual classical monsters were created by Hell at all since they never actually existed at all makes no true sense but YMMV on that) then anything that either is believed to exist or fictionally shown to exist (even several horror films depict supernatural good and evil (mostly evil) as either far more frighteningly alien and or powerful then what is shown here).

While the faction of Heaven make themselves appear either like completely uncaring jerks or oddly [[MagnificentBastards Magnificent Bastards]] just asking [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu for a punch in the mouth]]. Basically, every non human faction acts completely contrary to popular belief or philosophical understanding, so the only possible explanation is that the being known as Yahweh in the story is not the actual Judea-Christian God of biblical fame, and the entire war is in actuality is [[ThePlan planned]] by actual God to test both or either Humanity's faith or free will.

The test of faith is in "God's" message that Hell is inevitable for all humans so they just lay down and die and accept it. The humans that do are rewarded for their faith by being taken not to Hell, but [[FluffyCloudHeaven true Heaven]] instead. The ones who don't, and start the CurbStompWar against the armies of the afterlife, complete the test of free will.

Basically, God doesn't mind unquestioning faith, but He doesn't want boot-licking yes-men who go along with His every word like robots, either. That's not what Humans were created for. In fact, there are 2 examples of God actually doing this: the prominent 1st is God's command to Abraham to kill his son Issac (which God stopped before the deed was done) as a test of faith; the second is when another biblical figure (whose name escapes me right now) literally wrestles with a angel over one of God's commands to him. Afterwhich God commends him on this saying that at times His words should be scrutinized and not always blindly followed. That was the test of free will.

* Also, Doctor [[NamesTheSame Kuroneko]] is [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]], just cause imagining a gothic-lolita doctor (i.e. the aforementioned Kuroneko) is somehow hilarious.

[[WMG: Yahweh and Satan were the [[AxisPowersHetalia Nation-tans of Heaven and Hell]].]]

* Possible semi-confirmation from the bonus features incorporated in the Black Lagoon 1 Series 1 and 2 DVD set. The author said that many of the characters in Black Lagoon were based on people he'd met while doing research in Thailand. The similarities between Balalaika and the real officer on whom General Asanee is based (ruthless, aggressive, assertive, intense pride in being a soldier, generates intense loyalty from her subordinates, cooing voice when threatening death and destruction etc) are so great that it is hard to imagine the author of Black Lagoon didn't meet the real thing and use her as a base for Balalaika. That would make Black Lagoon's Balalaika and the Salvation War's General Asanee cousins of sorts. Also Roanapur appears to be based in part on a small town on the Thai/Myanmar border (with shades of Port Moresby, Saigon and Marseilles and a touch of Butte, Montana in the 1920s) where the real-life officer was stationed in the 1990s.

* Also, Doctor [[NamesTheSame Kuroneko]] is [[LightNovel/OreNoImoutoGaKonnaNiKawaiiWakeGaNai Kuroneko]], just cause.
** This makes way more sense than it legitimately should. General Asanee is officially Thai, right? So is the city of Roanapur... Also, imagining a gothic-lolita doctor (i.e. the aforementioned Kuroneko) is somehow hilarious.

* Economic issues confirmed: Fedex is reported as going out of business, and Obama reflects on the fact that, with an economy fully geared towards war, they might not be able to work fast enough to return to a civilian-based economy before it all crashes down.

[[WMG: Following the theory that this a test by actual God, Yahweh is [[HebrewMythology a Caananite god]] who's [[AGodAmI full of it.]] ]]
Before Yahweh was blended together with [[TopGod El]] to make the Abrahamic YHWH we understand today, he was simply the god of war, and [[GodIsEvil not a very nice one.]] The God in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early parts]] of the Bible? Yahweh, spending his time discrediting all of his rivals. By Christianity, Yahweh had developed a full-blown [[AGodAmI El complex]], either refusing to believe or outright forgetting [[GodOfGods El's existence.]] Jesus was probably the son/messenger of El, hence why [[JesusWasWayCool he was way cool.]]