(May 2, 2021 at 11:01 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
You really should add emoticons to your posts when you're being facetious, Bel.
Jus' sayin'.
I'll summarize, in case your work schedule doesn't allow you to follow the conversation closely.
The OP's analogy puts Anderson Cooper in the role of the four evangelists, reporting an event that happened decades before.
I contend that Cooper is not a good candidate for that role, because he is a mouthpiece for the current oligarchy. (Just like Rachel Maddow, Tucker Carlson, and all the other big shots you can name.) The evangelists were not in the service of the Roman oligarchy, justifying violent policies and foreign wars.
If you only want to say that certain people have an agenda and are not to be believed in a literal sense, then I guess this applies to both the evangelists and Cooper. Nonetheless their place in the hierarchy and their goals vis a vis power were very different, so the analogy is misleading at best.
Much later, the New Testament was put into the service of power, and was defended as credible by the sheeple, just as Cooper's credibility is defended today. However at the time of writing the evangelists were not like this.
