Do you believe in good and evil?

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So what I'm asking is, do you believe the concepts of good and evil to be universal truths, or just ideas that can vary from culture to culture or society to society?

Both. The concepts of good and evil vary from culture to culture and society to society - but most cultures and societies regard their concepts as universal truths. You need to define your terms more rigorously for a better answer.

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The Hebrews were practically saintly compared to the people who lived around them, who engaged in human sacrifices, wild sex orgies, rampant homosexuality and pedophilia, and all the other evils that caused God to destroy Sodom and Gamorrah.

"Allegedly". Don't confess to your god's purported crimes so easily.

I know that is not an explanation that will satisfy atheists, who demand that all people in all historical periods act like perfectly civilized 21st century Americans.

No - we demand that people who claim to have absolute perfect morality from god act like perfectly civilized 21st century humans - no matter which historical period they come from.

After all, we are so far superior to the Hebrews, since all we do is send drones to kill people at long range so we don't have to do the killing up close and personal, getting our hands dirty.

I don't know - that sounds very Yahweh-like.

Therefore, we have the right to sit in judgment over the Hebrews, and condemn them, even though they were fighting the same kind of craziness we are currently fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Really? Are there "human sacrifices, wild sex orgies, rampant homosexuality" in Iraq or Afghanistan?