You may have experienced this due to it being Sunday school designed for children...kinda like Pop sci but pop religion. It's day care mostly and not taught gen

You may have experienced this due to it being Sunday school designed for children...kinda like Pop sci but pop religion. It's day care mostly and not taught generally be the more knowledgeable people at the church. That's probably not a good thing but it is what it is. Even fairly conservative evangelical churches like the one I grew up in were pretty much totally in alignment with modern scholarship when it comes to topics like the authorship of various New Testament books. If you are into debating the "Q source" or other fun stuff then there is no better place cause most elders would know what you are talking about, whereas this is all a niche topic at best outside of that environment (but thankfully not on HackerNews). Study of ancient languages and strict study of the base texts is kind of a foundational aspect of most serious Protestantism. Basically what I'm getting at is that everything you've written is reasonable, and I don't think it would be remotely out of the ordinary to hear in an adult Sunday school or other sort of adults oriented class (for adults interested in these sorts of things...we usually don't do classes on Sunday lol, that's too long at church for one day). I'm as irritated as you are by the way a lot of the childrens content comes off.