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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 11:21 am
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It only gets translated into "Jonah and the Whale", because "Jonah and the Giant Monster that Dwells in the Deep" sounds entirely too much like a fairy tale for the religious to handle. The people that wrote this narrative had, in all liklihood, never seen a whale. It's a monster story, not a story about whales or fish. They believed in monsters, and since they couldn't find any on land, they imagined that they were hiding under water. To propose anything else about such a monster is to run the risk of being called on obvious bullshit. That's something you can't risk when these myths are your meal ticket.
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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Peter Benchley did a far better version of that tale.
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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Hehehe, the books are always better than the movies. In the spirit of great fiction...
"Jonah and Mokele Mbembe" would get my kudos, if such a tale were written.
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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 4:12 pm
(December 3, 2011 at 9:22 pm)Justtristo Wrote: How can anybody with a little bit of common sense take this story (The Book of Jonah) as anything other than an fairy tale beats me.
Well, from what I've been able to guess, the Book of Jonah was written as a satire; notice the content of the last part of the book: a town of degenerate sinners converts on Jonah's say-so, and afterwards, Jonah eagerly awaits their destruction by God and has a hissy fit when God doesn't do so. The targets are essentially the same kind of people who are bull-headed enough to say that it's possible for a man to survive three days alive in a fish's bowels because the Bible says it's possible.
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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 9:00 pm
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(December 4, 2011 at 3:03 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Jonah is an obvious fish tale. Only people like Lucent actually think stories like Jonah are actual historic record.
Come on, reverend! You know better than that. You either accept the Bible, in its entirety, or you reject it. A good Xtian can't pick and choose what he likes to submit to and what he doesn't.
Funnily enough, though, we have at least a dozen ministers and priests overhere who are public and vocal about them really being atheists! And their parishes/ministries know about it and accept it. They conduct services in their churches every week! 
So IRL at least a magnitude more than that are also really atheists. Non-believers. Only they aren't public/vocal about it. A simple case of job security, of course. 
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