FAKE NEWS, FAKE GOSPELS!
A few years ago, Jacob Cherian, dean of faculty at the Centre of Global Leadership Development in Bangalore, India, received a cash gift of several thousand rupees. He gave three of those notes to a friend to use at a hospital, only to discover that the notes were fake.
Our propensity for fake news reflects our propensity for fake forms of the Gospel.
‘I decided then to learn the key characteristics of a real thousand rupee note,’ says Cherian. Soon he knew how to judge a real note from a counterfeit one, despite how much they resembled each other. Cherian sees this as an analogy for being able to distinguish fake news from real news, and the true Gospel story from the many fake gospels rampant today.
The sloganised gospel
The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘fake
