Putting my words about Susan Wise Bauer into context

I don't like being snarky about Susan Wise Bauer (and I email her when I write a post about her, so, human nature being what it is, she probably reads what I write, or at least skims it for actionable material), as I was saying, I don't like being snarky to her; she isn't Peter Enns, she isn't an active false teacher, she just currently is not interested enough in biblical doctrine to know what Peter Enns is all about. I emailed her to tell her I write about her like I do to wake her up. She's in an academic bubble (and somewhat of a cult bubble with the homeschooling moms), getting a lot of praise and devotion, and there's a lot of intellectual vanity and 'correct thinking' involved in her environment. A lot of naive appeal to authority as well. Authority being the pieces of paper academics put on their walls, or the resume they accumulate. "Peter Enns graduated from Harvard and has taught at a leading seminary," Susan's husband says. "I would think a Harvard graduate would know best whether the Bible is full of errors or not, and I should think that a modern scholar would be in a better position to determine whether the apostle Paul got things wrong or not." OK, that's not an exact quote, but it's close in spirit. (Her husband also graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary. Are seminaries good for anything? Seriously. If there's a building and a gathering of humans the Devil will be there.)

So I feel a bit uncomfortable writing about Susan Wise Bauer as if she's a comical idiot, but regarding biblical doctrine and false teachers she *is* being a useful idiot.

Hiring Peter Enns to write an intro to the Bible for children is like hiring the Taliban to cater your wedding.