[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I do know that a hell of a lot of lives and resources were wasted in the building of some of the most wasteful structures in human history.

I take it that you are describing the buildings holding our current government bureaucracies, right? The Egyptian people freely gave their services to honor their conception of God, and to express their loyalty to him and their nation. Of course I have noticed a few folks around here lately to whom the concepts of honor, loyalty, and patriotism are at least as foreign as ancient Egypt.

[I'm ALL Right!]

The Israelites did not freely give their services to build those monuments.