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So then explain to me why it was ok for God to order his followers to destroy the Tower of Babel and slaughter those building it? I believe God's logic was, "If they complete this tower, it'll show the world they don't need me, and we can't have that."

How exactly was that ethical? Or should we discuss being allowed to beat your slave, so long as they don't die within three days, you haven't commited murder because they are your property? Is that the ethics and morality you're speaking of?

Or maybe it's the "an eye for an eye" part, where revenge is completely justified? I believe it took a Hindu nationalist to add "makes the world blind" to actually make that statement ethical.

Or maybe you're trying to discuss one of the many, many instances of rape that occurs in the bible, but it's completely justified and ethical because God said so?

Personally, if you base your morals and ethics off of the Bible, you're a piece of shit who justifies their immoral behavior using an outdated text as some kind of shield because you think, so long as you repent riiiiiiiiight before you eat the big one, you're good. ๐Ÿ™„