> The Jews and their Christian offshoot invented the idea that every individual is important simply because he/she is a child of God.
Well, except for them durn Caananites...
Still children of God. Doesn't mean you can't kill them, of course. :)
Some Canaanites switched sides and were accepted as Jews, even winding up in the ancestry of David and Jesus.
"> The Jews and their Christian offshoot invented the idea that every individual is important simply because he/she is a child of God.
Well, except for them durn Caananites..."
And pretty much all of pre-Roman Gaul.