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$\"Job$ <\/p>\n

Gakusei Don suggested the above in response to my prompting about adding Godzilla to the Bible<\/a>. One can actually make a serious point by doing this. Godzilla fits the text much better than a dinosaur would, and that supports the understanding of the text as referring to a mythical dragon and not a real prehistoric lizard.<\/p>\n

Someone else suggested David vs. Godzilla, and that already exists, courtesy of Ben Riddlebarger<\/a>, whose work I\u2019ve shared here previously in a post with the title \u201cThe Bible as Fantasy\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

$\"david-and-godzillasm\"$ <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"