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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: 1 Maccabees Chapter 1: Bible Study by Atheists
Description: In this episode, we crack open First Maccabees, Chapter 1 and immediately get dropped into the chaos left behind by Alexander the Great and his idiot successor fanboys. The hosts walk through how Alexander’s fractured empire births Antiochus Epiphanes, a power-drunk tyrant with elephants, daddy issues, and a raging hate boner for the Jews. We watch him steamroll Egypt, swagger into Jerusalem, loot the Temple like a divine Dollar Tree, and then call it “peace.”From there, it only gets darker: Antiochus forces Hellenistic culture on the Jews, including building a nude gymnasium in Jerusalem so everyo...