Right.
I guess if your world view states that the world began with the god of the Jewish tradition, then yeah. Unfortunately, many other societies and traditions and oral histories predate the Moses fables - societies that fully understood that killing fellow humans was a bad thing.
But anyway, playing within your construct, how do you reconcile the rivers of blood and rampant genocide in the Old Testament? The stuff that god commands? How many millions did he murder or command to be murdered in “his” vain attempt to gain terrified worshippers?
And again, I ask you, if you weren’t born into a christian society and very most likely raised christian, would you be a murderer? Earlier, kimtom waffled on that question.
It seems like a pretty straightforward question. Is your religion the only thing holding you back from a murderous rampage?
“..Unfortunately, many other societies and traditions and oral histories predate the Moses fables ....”
OOps! your ignorance is showing!
Before I can answer your question I need to understand from what moral lensing do you view the world? From what body or philosophy do you judge right from wrong? After all it is no fair borrowing from Judeo Christianity to judge Judeo Christianity if you have no superior morality from which to frame your questions.
Paul states “If there be no resurrection of the dead then, let us eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!” So it all depends on what you believe and are prepared to put your trust in. If God, who came to Earth as flesh and allowed himself to be crucified in his own “rivers of blood” and then was resurrected....if one is prepared to believe it, then one may have to accept the other “difficult” parts of scripture as being true as well.
Speaking of violence, Christ said he came “not to bring peace on the Earth but a sword”. The only unity he commanded was that his followers “love one another”. Christ’s kingdom will be established from fiery judgments that will fall upon the Earth. Ultimately , the heavens and the Earth will pass away save for the words of Jesus Christ. I don’t have to justify the word of God, the Bible speaks for itself...accept or reject as you will.
If you think you know some higher truth or wisdom, then play your ace of spade, the house will announce “call!” soon enough!