{"id":11492,"date":"2012-12-17T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T04:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2012-12-17T23:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T04:41:22","slug":"fox-news-and-jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/fox-news-and-jonah.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox News and Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11493\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/Birth-of-Fox-News.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"359\"><\/p>\n<p>Get it? He spent three days in\u00a0<em>Wales<\/em>? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy and appreciate this cartoon because it does some subversive things. Fox News is notorious for its distortion and bias, and yet it is popular among people who claim to value truth and being \u201cBiblical.\u201d And so the cartoon subversively asks what if behind some of the stories in the Bible there is similar bias and distortion?<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Jonah, I don\u2019t think this is at all what happened. The story of Jonah does not read like a distortion of some historical kernel, but rather seems like a parable aimed at challenging an ethnocentric view of God \u2013 which adds further irony to this whole thing, since the resulting story of Jonah in the Bible challenges ethnocentrism in a way that we don\u2019t associate with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/comics-and-games\/fun\/Pardon_My_Planet\/2012-12-15\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pardon My Planet<\/a>. \u00a0HT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2012\/12\/17\/if-fox-news-channel-existed-during-biblical-times\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/lecture-on-the-book-of-jonah.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">For more of my thoughts on the Book of Jonah, here\u2019s \u00a0a link to a lecture I posted a few months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get it? He spent three days in\u00a0Wales? \ud83d\ude42 I really enjoy and appreciate this cartoon because it does some subversive things. Fox News is notorious for its distortion and bias, and yet it is popular among people who claim to value truth and being \u201cBiblical.\u201d And so the cartoon subversively asks what if behind some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,49],"tags":[1138,1625,2736,3174,3559,4871,5899],"class_list":["post-11492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-jonah","tag-bias","tag-cartoon","tag-distortion","tag-ethnocentrism","tag-fox-news","tag-humor","tag-jonah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fox News and Jonah<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get it? 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