RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2011 at 11:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
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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