But we are talking about Rome, Italy not Babylon, Egypt.
You wrote:
"But we are talking about Rome, Italy not Babylon, Egypt."
Incorrect. We are arguing over what "Babylon" meant to first century Christians. There were two cities called Babylon as their formal name. One city, Rome, was called Babylon in the NT and other Jewish and Christian writings as a code word to describe its decadence. Those are the facts. That's what we've been talking about.
I point out that there is a Babylon in Egypt -- and of course no Protestant here knew that -- to show that Protestants who insist that all the early Christians had no idea of what they were talking about when reading Peter's use of "Babylon" not only make a false assumption, but make such an assumption based on very limited knowledge (i.e. there are two Babylons, not just one).