However, use the Old Testament carefully. Judges chapter 19 begins with, "In those days Israel had no king," and Judges ends with, "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit." Such freedom! Freedom upheld by generally right thinking. But read Judges 19 to the end of Judges, and see how thousands died, and look at some strange mind-sets of those peoples. It's the same in much of the Old Testament. People didn't seem to be as greatly affected emotionally as we are today, by the deaths of loved ones. Did they know something we don't?