User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1483327-20100809015702

@Oer: The Israelites had to have their share of cruel and bloodthirstly people. It was the ancient world. There were thousands of tyrants and murderers. Pretty much in order to survive at the time, a massive streak of cruelty was pretty much mandatory. From the Roman Emperors Nero and Caligula to pretty much every Egyptian Pharaoh, no nation was innocent.