Quote:The authors either knew they were writing fiction, or they thought they were recording real events.
That is not strictly true. We have one basic story - gMark - which came out first and then two adaptations of the same story gMatty and gLuke. (GJohn is just far out crap which has long been recognized as totally different from the other 3). Moreover, gLuke has a question about the first 2 chapters being later additions...
http://vridar.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/l...arcionism/
in much the same way as some unknown scribe wrote a new and improved ending for gMark because the first one was not good enough.
I find it impossible to accept that whoever sat down to write this amended bullshit out did not know exactly what they were doing and why. At best, they were incorporating traditional beliefs into the yarn and at worst they were deliberately propagandizing them.
