I'd discuss the moral reprehensibility of God (in both the new and the old testament) if and only if I saw the estimated benefit in attempting to deconvert those people as outweighing the disutility of their potential distress.
If you see such benefits in telling the people of the basilisk, and are weighing them against the disutility of the potential distress caused by such information, and the benefits indeed outweigh the hazard, then fine.
Your essential theory seems to be that if someone shines a light on a pothole, then it's their fault if people fall into it, not that of whoever dug it.
The strategy of attempting to keep it a secret has failed in every way it could possibly fail. It may be time to say "oops" and do something different.
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.