Source? It should be obvious to anyone who can read and think.

If the obvious is your standard, then it should be even more obvious that the entirety of Christianity is full of shit. Thanks for the laugh. Pray for a brain.

Jonah hates the Ninevites - hates them - claims he hates them because they are Godless. So God calls his bluff and sends him to convert the heathens. But Jonah doesn’t really want the Ninevites to get religion - he wants to see God punish them - destroy them. So he stupidly tries to run off and hide.

Then we get the hilarious ocean voyage - the three days in the fish - the vomiting up on shore - and the smelly Jonah stamping around Ninevah spounting his rote injunction - because, again, he doesn’t want these people to get right with God.

But they do - and this drives him absolutely batshit - so he goes off to the hillside there hoping against hope that HIS God will do what HE wants - destroy these people he hates. But no, God messes with him some more - shows him for the pathetic blowhard that he is.

Jonah is the same sort of guy as these Left Behind types - they don’t want the world converted. They want to be RIGHT - then they can sit in heaven, next to jesus and dig the gory destruction of evil heathens who made their lives so miserable when they were here.

What’s so hard to understand?

Mainline Protestant on January 11, 2006 at 2:42 pm said:

The Book of Jonah is a satire…

Source?

The voice of god almighty.

The Book of Jonah is a satire…

Source?