^* One seeming exception is the Israelite killing of the Canaanites in the conquering of the Holy Land. But it is not really an exception. First, it was a one-time event directed against one group three thousand years ago. There is no demand in the Old or New Testaments that nonbelievers be humiliated or put to death. Second, the Canaanites were not killed because they were nonbelievers but because they sacrificed children and engaged in other horrific acts; and the Jews are repeatedly warned in their Bible that if they act similarly, they will suffer the same fate the Canaanites did.