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Machete posted...

It probably was a real event... Jonah probably went off into the wilderness and ate some kind of hallucinatory mushroom or plant and tripped his testicles off for a few days and the whole whale thing was in his head and then he came back and told the story as if it had been real and people believed him.

I find it far more difficult to believe that the book of Jonah is written based on his own testamony than to believe a dag gadol swallowed him and puked him up, tbh.

It's pretty unflattering. It paints Jonah as a petty, self-righteous ingrate who insists God is a jerk for not being evil and insults God with his own words on being loving and forgiving, and even ends when God asks him a question he can't answer, which serves as the moral of the story.

It would be like seeing one of those moderation complaint topics that says "so I blatantly broke the ToU, disrespected the mods in the dispute, then whined about times when people I don't like have gotten their moderations overturned, and finally they pointed me to the exact spot in the ToU that describes the rule I broke and they were totally right."

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