The supreme arrogance of religious thinking

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Nero had the right idea. Definately. As did Pharaoh Merneptah with the Hebrews.

Nero never heard of xtians. That was all a much later invention.

Merneptah is a much different case. The word commonly cited as being "Israel" is actually "Isirir" and the word appears no where else in the entire corpus of Egyptian writing so we really do not know what it meant in ancient Egyptian.