I’ve never hated Jews nor had cause to. I knew a few of my class members were Jewish back in high school but that did’t mean anything to me. Nobody bothered each other with religion up in the northern town on the Canadian border. My parents were raised Catholic but they grew weary and distrustful of it, quit the church just after I was born, so my older siblings were baptized in it but not I. Nobody really cared too much for Christianity I felt, even though my Father had a PhD in comparative theology and studied the interlinear bible and other scholars three hours a day even after retiring. We had a lot of great intellectual discussions, but even he ended up not formally liking any churches, because of the “priest craft.” He had been a minister for a number of years before retiring after being a professor but I think it drained him. I don’t think people are born and don’t change. They do. There are many, many more atheists and agonists today. Only 40 percent of Italians are said to go to church, the lowest in the world. It’s just boring and overly moralistic without much room for original thought and expression. The stories of the whale and the ark seem way over dated and childish. They were metaphors back then, had entertainment value, and no one was supposed to take them seriously. 2000 plus years later I think the original authors were laugh that people take them seriously now.