A Liberal Scholar's Motto: Everybody Lies

It never ceases to amaze me how liberal biblical scholars can hypothesize that deception was so rampant when considering the composition of the Bible. They want to say that every book of the Bible was written at a later date by someone who thought they wouldn't be taken seriously unless they stole someone else's name.

I can understand the identity theft part. It's not entirely clear that Matthew wrote Matthew or Mark wrote Mark or Moses wrote Deuteronomy (although I am convinced that the internal and external evidence points to the veracity of the traditional authorship ascription). But don't you think that liberal scholarship would draw the line somewhere? Not everyone can be lying, right? Believe it or not, some people in this world have standards.

I sense a projection of the liberal scholar's own morally-bankrupt view of lying onto his or her identification of the biblical writers.

Or maybe they have just been watching too much House.