> it's remarkable how different the consensus of serious historians is from what most people learned in sunday school. Well one side is "children, once a week"

> it's remarkable how different the consensus of serious historians is from what most people learned in sunday school. Well one side is "children, once a week" and the other is "full time commitment in history career". Sunday school is just day care with stories. I once believed that "wet wood burns better than dry wood" because that's what a Sunday school teacher opened with for the story of the altar burning comparison (OT). I'm still "a Christian" in some sense of the word, in that I think humans operate wholly on stories, and that there needs to be a unifying power structure that is ruthless yet humane, and I think some form of Christianity fits the bill. but I believe no one (in most churches) actually knows what they're talking about. "Useful ignorance" useful for the power structure. They don't want historians at Sunday school they want recital.