Do you believe in good and evil?

[Mudhammam]

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.

What's your evidence of this? Can I take a guess? Hebrew sources? (Which by the way, contain all of the *terrible* practices you mentioned--homosexuality?! Good Gawd!--apparently so rampant among the Hebrews, in fact, that their crazy leaders quoted their warrior god as sanctioning capital punishment for anyone who continued to commit them, and of course, then blamed the fall of their temple and subsequent captivity on the "wickedness" of the people).

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.

Atheists! Those flag-waving patriots.

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.

Strange, because I do not support massacring human beings via either a President using drones or a religious nut with a sword citing the authority of an Iron Age god... and have never shied from that fact. I take it... you do support those, however?

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.

Yeah, actually, I do retain my right to criticize senseless violence committed in the name of a "war on terrorism" or a "judgement on pagans," thank you very much. I suppose your mind is kind of vacant when it comes to the whole moral conviction thing, huh?