Religions teach backward ideas - Yes & No

[Kyuuketsuki]

It is not these books or the writers that were backward, they must have seemed pretty forward for those times, but what is really backward and frightening is when people of today stupidly regurge the same thoughts!

Yep, as a fellow debater of mine once said:
"The Bible? A book written by ancient, ignorant, superstitious mystics who had no clear understanding of the world around them and made up stories that sounded good at the time. What little truth is contained in the Bible is accidental, at best. Fundamentalists & creationists? Ignorant, superstitious moderns who have no clear understanding of the world around them and believe made-up stories that sound good to them. What little truth is contained in what they say is accidental, at best"
Reverend Rob Miles, ULC

It's not quite right i.e. I get what you say about these people being potentially advanced thinkers of their time but it still amuses me.

I hear there is actually a flat-earth society, people who don't believe that the earth is round! Trying to disprove evolution and denying the existence of dinosaurs, even with all the skeletal evidence.

There is and get this (I believe I recall this right) their leader is an ex-aircraft engineer or controller.

Actually there is another reason why people fear evolution. Remember god made us in his image? 5,000 years ago man looked presentable, but if you keep going back the picture changes. Now if we go back to the neanderthal times, man looks horrible. Bad teeth, bad hair, smelly, disgusting, unwashed, grunting like an ape! This is god! Keep going back, now god is an ape!

My view is, if god made us in his image then he must look like us, that means he must have a penis ... I'll be buggered if I can figure out a reason why?

Kyu