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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️

      I had the most tiresome arguments with fundie classmates over whether it was theoretically possible for Jonah's story to be literally true if God gave him an invisible magic diving suit after the whale ate him for the sake of making his point or somethinghttps://twitter.com/emilyvdw/status/1362945543312302080 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      Emily says: And then God is, like, "HERE'S A STORM, AND IF YOU SAILORS THROW JONAH INTO THE SEA, I'LL TAKE IT AWAY." 5:52 So they do. 5:52 And the storm goes away. 5:53 And Jonah is, like, "I'm sorry I doubted you, Lord. I'll do anything to make it up to you if you just keep me from drowning." 5:53 At which point -- giant fish, which is the record scratch freeze frame "Yep that's me" of this story in the popular consciousness. Then Cassie says: that’s a really bad parable
      Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️Verified account @emilyvdw
      Explaining the story of Jonah from the Bible to @CassieCeleste pic.twitter.com/IviZ66oQ2X
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    2. It is no longer November, Dave‏ @6502_ftw Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Yeah, in my experience most of them are still hung up on “It wasn’t a WHALE it was a BIG FISH” and I had to remind them that that’s even worse, because, y’know, mammals at least have some air in there, but they weren’t really big on science

      2 replies 0 retweets 35 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @6502_ftw

      That's because they're stupid and don't even understand what "taking the Bible literally" means I mean they don't understand the basics of how language works, which is why they don't understand what "taking the Bible literally" means

      1 reply 1 retweet 63 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      They act like they believe the NIV Bible appeared written in English on magic tablets inscribed by God, and God also inscribed the current year's edition of the Oxford English Dictionary next to them so you can know what each word "objectively means"

      6 replies 5 retweets 68 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      (The Hebrew word "dag" meaning "sea creature" is translated as "fish" but doesn't *mean* "fish" the way English-speaking biologists today mean "fish" because none of those biologists were born yet Hell "fish" doesn't really mean that either, hence "shellfish")

      4 replies 2 retweets 41 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      (But I already did a tiresome nerd thread a while back on how the Chinese word 鼠 doesn't really mean "rat" but the general idea "rodent" But it doesn't mean the modern scientific definition of "rodent", it just means "ratlike thing")

      1 reply 1 retweet 32 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      Btw the fact that the Hebrew word for "fish" is "dag" is what led people to think the ancient Canaanite deity "Dagon" was a sea-god, and led Lovecraft to write The Shadow Over Innsmouth where he's a horrifying fish-man who spawns a race of hybrid fish-people

      2 replies 4 retweets 33 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      A lot of people still think this is valid, so this is controversial, but the current prevailing theory seems to be that the ancient Canaanites didn't in fact think this and the etymology is unrelated This was Jewish writers insulting a deity from an enemy culture with a mean pun

      3 replies 4 retweets 36 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 19
      Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

      Same thing as what got us Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies (a mean pun on "Ba'al Zebul", the Lord of the Manor) A lot of what we call "demonology" in Christian tradition ultimately starts from ancient Near East schoolyard insults

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        1. Jessie Roman  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @FroyoBaggins Feb 19
          Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

          "And the Lord said unto them: 'Whosoever believeth in Me shall be as Rubber And those without faith shall be as Glue; Whatever they sayeth shall bounce off thee And adhere to them.'"

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        1. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite Feb 19
          Replying to @arthur_affect @6502_ftw

          Oh, hell, yes, adding this to my Dumb Etymology Bank! (So much etymology is just dumb. SO DUMB)

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