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I love religious history. Ever since I took a course at CSULB on the “Historical Jesus” I was hooked. I took another on “Early Christianity” by the same professor. And now I frequently listen to the debates and lectures of Bart Ehrman about how the Gospels came to be written some 40 years after the death of Jesus.
Because in those times approximately 10 percent of the population was literate. And so, someone had to write the first gospel based upon stories told about a man who lived and died (and maybe lived again) several decades earlier.
And today we are getting a chance to observe this phenomenon with regards to Trump. Even though we live in an age of information deluge (and perhaps because of it) with video clips and newspaper writings everywhere, listen to interviews of Trump supporters at his rallies.
