Pope Guilty: "The believers weren't writing what they knew or saw, they were writing what they had heard had happened decades before. There's a difference between writing about something which is happening and writing down a collection of stories heard thirdhand."
Exactly. It would be like if someone asked a 20 year old today to write about the Eisenhower Era, but the only source material they had were Happy Days episodes. (Which really, I think explains a whole lot of the Republican Party...this wishful remembrances for a time that never actually existed.)