Why is an albatross considered to be a christian soul?

Answer 1

Is this a joke??
Are their ego's supposed to be as large as the wing span??
Are they just a noisy ??
Please explain how is it that they are comparable??

Answer 2

Sailorly superstition. The ignorant deck seamen are told to listen to their boatswain's mates as if they were prophets...

Sadly, most of these boatswain's mates are from foreign countries, with terrible accents. They also tend to be drunk out of their minds most of the time, and they chew tobacco. Any pearls of wisdom that fall from their mouths are confusingly garbled.

The Deck seamen for their part may also be drunk. If they're not, they've probably got holes in their brain from breathing paint fumes for so long.

The combination leads to strange animals popping up all over the place. My perfectly good US naval warship at one point had the front of the ship riddled with Horse pipes, fox holes, wild cats, ant-cords, tommy-Hawks, Donkeys, Jays, gun bear-Ls, Deck apes, and He-Man lines... Everyone on the ship was required to memorize where these creatures all were located.

At one point I was also ordered to "Sweep the horizon," with a broom, to get all the white caps off of it... and to bring up some wind.

Probably, some drunk boat'swain was going off about the death of a guy named Albert Ross at one point... and saw a bird with the same name...

You know some sailors used to use albatross feet for tobacco pouches too.

Answer 3

On what planet was that?
Or were you reading the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner?

Answer 4

...because when they finally get their head out of the clouds they crash??

sounds good to me, but I really don't know.

Answer 5

because it's more silly nonsense, to go hand-in-hand with the nonsense already found in the bible.