well, Lot's wife was told not to turn around and gawk once already... you can't be spoiling those disobedient women by telling them twice. Next thing you know they will be cutting the hair and crippling a great Jewish warrior who once killed a 1000 men with the jawbone of a donkey.
Granted, i grew up going to Church but have not been back in probably 10 years or so. I actually really liked the church i went to willingly as an adult and it was truly was not a den of hating gays, keeping women in their places and blaming migrants for all the world's problems but I just started hating 'the church' abroad in general personified by Jeffress and his ilk. But looking back, I should have been scared shitless of the OT God as a child.
As to the 4000 or 6000 yo Erff people. In this day and age with the scientific methods available to spell out exactly how and when dinosaurs roamed the land it's just a pristine example of willful ignorance to persist in 'believing' that. I mean, are there any ancient texts from Greek scholars when some of them started saying, "you know, as awesome as it sounds, I don't really think that Zeus ate his wife and then his son cracked his head open with an axe to let his daughter out of there fully grown and armed. Maybe, just maybe lightning is a natural phenomenon"