Counter-factual rebuttals to revealed religion

If your “Bible” had come out of SE Asia or Africa, it might have contained a parable for Father and son, mother and daughter, based on how the trainer breaks the will of the captive elephant.

This is already present in American culture in a near iconic form: the breaking of horses as a demonstration of the “true man” of the Wild ( and free ) West. The painful irony should be extended to include how the horse came to be in North America.

Anyone who has watched footage of the reuniting of two old elephant girlfriends or of a mother elephant with trunk and foot getting new-born to take a first breath, has has an opportunity to observe that these animals reveal our own animality to ourselves, however reluctant we may be to witness and to bear witness to this insight.