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The Books of Jonah and Micah: ”Swallowed Up”

Unshaken Saints

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The Book of Jonah - The Comedy of a Big Fish

The book of Jonah is where the comedian finally can't keep a straight face, and even they laugh. I mean, a big fish swallowing somebody and then spitting them up on land. And that was Paine's genius. This was the most effective anti-religious tract in the late 18th through the 19th century. People started at skeptics with Celebrate Thomas Paine's birthday posthumously.

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