It's partly that. (Say, remember all the "real-life Jonah!" stories?) The bad logic part.
It's partly the whole thing of people not knowing what a story is any more.
It's partly how early archaeological work in the near east was done "with a Bible in one hand"-- the objectives behind the work, their exclusiveness, the demands for, I don't know, something like archaeological relic-finding.
It's partly how aggravating more modern/contemporary/read-the-story-from-the-finds-not-the-text-into-the finds/finding find the whole thing.
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It's partly the whole thing of people not knowing what a story is any more.
It's partly how early archaeological work in the near east was done "with a Bible in one hand"-- the objectives behind the work, their exclusiveness, the demands for, I don't know, something like archaeological relic-finding.
It's partly how aggravating more modern/contemporary/read-the-story-from-the-finds-not-the-text-into-the finds/finding find the whole thing.