There is also the fact that ancient people(and many people now) did not see it as appropriate to judge a god by human standards. Theognis of Megara said that it is not for mortals to judge the gods. Have a problem with Zeus' affairs? Who are you to judge the king of the gods?

And again, treating myths as literal, temporal accounts is a pitfall. There are layers of subtext and symbolism in them, and shrill moralizing will miss those. One problem is that the Greeks had an obsession with organizing myths, making a linear narrative. That was a mess.

Allegorical interpretations are harder for the Bible because most myths there focus on human characters, and are meant to lead up to the settling and founding of Israel and Judah. The Danites slaughtered people admitted in the text to be no threat to anyone, not much room there.

Another problem is that they will treat myths as proscriptive or exemplary. Just because something was in a myth did not make it socially acceptable, or common. I see that misconception all the time. It doesn't apply to the Bible most of the time, because the Bible has commands.

The Norse looked down severely on anything effeminate in men. But Loki in a myth gave birth to monsters, after he spent time as a mare. I have seen that used to support the idea that "fluid gender roles" were a thing among the Norse. Positive and negative spins on that as well.

To me, that is speaking nonsense. The crazy events underline the mythic nature of the story. And this was not about humans or human society, but gods and giants. Applying our logic to them is faulty. It is about like making a similar argument over Helen hatching from a swan's egg

Odin is said to have spent years in the form of a woman among female magic users. This was an insult of Odin by Loki. But again, if Odin did appear as a woman(and it is possible), it is important to remember that gods do not have human limitations. But we should not forget ours.

The Greeks punished adultery severely(often death) in the early period, and even leniency was often a cruel mercy, the woman's reputation would be ruined. A husband used to have the right to kill the man cuckolding him if he caught them.

Stories about adulteries among gods were treated differently because gods are not mortals. And the interesting thing in Greek myths is that gods do have to make up for offenses against their own rules. Apollo had to make up for his killing of the Cyclopes.

Areas and Aphrodite pay for their affair by being humiliated and made sport of by the gods, when Hephaestus caught them in his net. Gods also have to keep their word. In Homer, a nod from Zeus is as good as saying that something is done. And gods could not break oaths.

Looking at myths from a societal angle, they tend to crystallize the mores of a particular time and place. This is jarring for other times and places where things have changed. Some actions of Romulus and his people were an example of that by the late Republic to early Empire.

I did not make the thread about Israelite human sacrifice as a way to beat on some long dead tribes, that would be pointless. I wanted to expose the pretensions of modern Abrahamic followers. They all tend to think that the moral views current in their time were around forever