Killing is in our genes. Humanity is not the originator of evil, but merely finds evil already present and perpetuates it. Our origins are divine, to be sure, since we are made from a god, but from the blood of and assassinated god. We are the outcome of deicide. Human beings are thus naturally incapable of peaceful coexistence.
Unquestioning obedience is the highest virtue, and order the highest religious value.
The only detail in our modern rendition that is different is that the enemy has generally ceased to be female. As Marduk's representative on earth, the king's task is to subdue all those enemies who threaten the tranquillity that he has established on behalf of the god. The whole cosmos is a state, and the god rules through the king. Politics arises within the divine sphere itself. And because chaos threatens repeatedly, in the form of barbarian attacks and domestic unrest, an ever-expanding imperial policy is the automatic consequence of Marduk's ascendancy over the gods.