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...from Galilee, according to the Gospel of Mark, was himself the first to raise the echoing question "Who do men say that I am?" That question is today not only at the heart of Hollywood's latest controversy but also at the center of equally bitter, though less publicized, disputes among scholars concerning the life of Jesus and what can accurately be said about...
...twice a year to cast ballots on whether each of the Master's New Testament sayings is authentic or not. Sample conclusion: Jesus did say "Blessed are the poor" but not "Blessed are the meek" or "Blessed are the peacemakers," phrases that, the group contends, were added by the Gospel authors in an echo of Old Testament writings...
...notion of history and how to record it was, of course, rather different in the 1st century A.D. Like other ancient authors, the Gospel writers did not set out to produce records that meet modern standards of precision. Furthermore, they were clearly saturated with faith in Christ and were not necessarily objective transmitters of his story. Says Anthony Harvey, canon of Westminster Abbey and a New Testament scholar: "The writer of a Gospel is not just an editor but a creative theological intelligence, telling the story in a particular way to make a particular point...
...candidates are inherently lying, pandering and manipulative bastards, trying to con the living daylights out of those malleable voters. Therefore, this self-serving mindset continues, voters should wise up, ignore what the candidates are saying, and treat what an "enlightened" few in the press say about them as gospel...
...Democrats as the party of opposition and severely limited their room for maneuver. As Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank points out, "The deficit is a great constrainer. If we had another $50 billion to spend, we would argue over how to spend it." From Dukakis on down, the Democratic gospel still includes ritual phrases like "unmet national needs" and "reorienting our priorities." But there is a hollowness to this rhetoric that reflects the barrenness of the federal cupboard. How could any Democrat today have the temerity to propose anything as grandiose as a Great Society when the funds are barely available...