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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a lot of bias on pages about religion, I find.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My kind of bias, or the wrong kind?

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is hilarious, thank you

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For example there were pages that would state that "Scholars agree that the gospel of ____ was not written by _____ but was written by an anonymous author" when the original sources never discredited the original claim of authorship, but were essentially "I can't be sure who wrote it", never actually saying/discrediting that it wasn't written by said evangelist.

I think the anonymous perspective belongs there, but when the original source says "I cannot be sure who wrote it" then that's not saying it wasn't written by them.