The intellectual aspirations of Job and his friends have reached their natural conclusion. Despite Job’s earnest belief that God is good, and frequent Allusions to a ‘mediator,’ or ‘friend,’ who would argue his case before the Almighty, they generally don’t know what they are talking about. Colloquially this is known as “blah, blah, blah.”

The religious establishment is fainting as if on sleeping couches because I said there is “blah, blah, blah” in the Bible. There is necessary context in the Bible. The reason it’s in the Bible is to prove how good God is despite the stupid people in it.

God can’t just write a story about himself, posturing like Captain America, or some hero, without us understanding what is truly heroic about Him. He listens patiently. Eventually, he sets the record straight.

He speaks of the moon and stars, the ocean, the animals in infinity variety. Then, some clever interpreter of the AMPC version, (near to Greek translation I am told) says near the end of His speech, that God wrestles alligators. And wins!

The crowning achievement of God, according to religious people apparently, (chapter 41) is that God quite nearly resembles Crocodile Dundee in magnifence and stature.

In the final scene of Act IV God is a bit angry. Just a hint. The bloviating of idiots has reached its zenith. No wonder God has stepped out of the scene on the large screen of our lives. Did the translators say to God, “God, you know now there are no such things as dragons…”

“Nobody will believe us if we speak of such things.”

Chilled hush floods the scene. Now nobody knows whether there is such things as dragons or whether God is angry about being compared to Crocodile Dundee.

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