ubiq and Just my hap… lack of bekius in Nach, an am haaretz does not make. I trust my rebbi enough to not make stuff up without a source, or unless he heard it from his rebbi (who was one of the gedolei hador until his recent passing). When I learn Torah I spend most of that time focusing on Shas, mussar, and halacha. Nach is great, but it’s not going to tell you how to keep mitzvos properly, and it’s more important to memorize halacha than to memorize what’s in perek 7 in Shoftim.
I decided to look it up and you are actually 100% wrong. Hashem tells Gideon to choose the ones who lap the water from their hands (the Mahari Kra even explicitly writes “standing up”) and to dismiss the ones that bend over to drink directly from the stream. The Metzudas Dovid, Ralbag, Rabbeinu Yeshaya, Baal Haturim and more, explain that this is because those that got down on their knees to drink showed an indication that they were used to bowing to the Ba’al. Sounds to me like you just proved my rebbi’s point. So before you slander my rebbi or my yeshiva maybe you should reconsider who taught you how to learn. I rest my case.