>Christian tradition upholds the authorship of the Gospels and epistles in the New Testament for 1900 years
>In the 20th Century some (((secular scholars))) decide half the books were pseudepigraphal based on their gut feeling about how the style of the letter is composed despite the fact that Pauls use of an amanuensis was well understood and the fact early Christians didn't dispute the authorship at all
How did they get away with this? The idea that church tradition about the authorship of the gospels and epistles comes second to some textual criticism of a guy 2000 years removed from the writing deciding "Nah this doesn't seem like it's written by Paul so we'll say it wasn't despite the good chance it was paraphrased by a scribe who took dictation" is absurd, but people actually take the opinions of these people seriously