The Ten commandments appeared only AFTER the Israelites had done the very things the ten laws LATER commands not to. Included and quite understandably the first three that came about by woshipping idols for example golden bulls etc. The laws with common sense golden rules are 'good' that you agree with. Using common sense laws is not in everyones mental grasp as we can see even today. So our society like Moses creates harsher governing laws detering bad things.
Ok, challenge accepted. Please show me a society where the last three commandments or golden rule aren't respected? They're always enshrined in law in every society. Breaking these laws are always news.
Oh, btw, forget, the commandment of banning coveting. Also complete bullshit. Which I'm happy that we've ignored, since coveting is the basis for our modern market economy. And the one about always respecting your parents. Nah. Respect always has to be earned. There's some nasty parents out there.
So five out of the ten commandments aren't total bullshit.
Still, a dick move to punish people for breaking rules they weren't aware even existed.
Can you point to any justification for punishing the Gomorrahn's and Soddomites? He killed all of them. Please, feel free to elaborate on how this can be justified?
And I'm skipping here the fact that there's no archeological or historical reason to think these cities ever existed. They were most likely wholly mythical. Which makes God a bit less evil. But the fact that he, in the Bible, takes responsiblity for it makes him evil. A bit like a guy who shows up at a police station admitting to a bunch of murders he didn't commit.
At the moment the only thing you probably missed are the many scores of cities confirmed and still existing today.
Yes, but not this one. Incidentally, we should mention that the reason these cities perhaps don't exist is because they were destroyed by natural disasters. Which would also mean that they weren't at all destroyed for breaking God's commandments, any more than children with leukemia get it because of all the wicked things they've done. Religious people have always been good at attributing natural disasters to God's wrath.
The problem is of course that, under closer inspection, these never hold water. Sweden for example, an early adopter of gay legalisation and gay marriage, perched upon the middle of a tectonic plate, geographically shielded from monsoons and all manner of nastiness seems to always receive God's blessing. Imagine that. Being a gay atheist seems to be just the sort of thing that God rewards.
While plenty of affluent cities in the Middle-East were situated on flood plains.