BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Confirmation Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 30.3% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 174 faulty-reasoning hits from 175 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.5% and a BS Rank of 74% (5,876 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.20% of the article peer group.
In 2021, protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to overturn the presidential election.
In that moment, author Charles King turned to Handel’s Messiah.
He found solace in the famous 18th century oratorio, which tells the story of Christ’s birth and resurrection.
Maybe that’s because the piece was written in similarly tumultuous times.
Yes, the Enlightenment was underway, but it was also an age of empire and enslavement.
The first words sung in Messiah, spoken by God, are “Comfort ye, my people.”
That was the reassurance Charles King needed in 2021.
His book is about the creation of Handel’s Messiah and the troubled days for which it was composed.
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Charles King | Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University.
His latest book is called “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s Messiah” [Amazon | Bookshop].
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