text: To newsreader60 re "you don't know what 'piety' actually means": Inasmuch as piety is a true part of justice, it is a great virtue. It is also often a motive for much impressive creativity in the arts, including the composition of moving and inspiring fictitious narratives. More rarely it can be a motive for historical research. But in itself it can never be a substitute for real critical thinking. And in fact it can be a temptation to commit fraud, as we see very often in the history of the early church, with authority-craving attributions of this and that to one or another apostle (e.g. the deutero-Pauline letters; the gospels according to Matthew and John), or to someone close to them (the gospels according to Mark and Luke).