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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: 2 Maccabees Chapter 11: Bible Study by Atheists
Description: 2 Maccabees Chapter 11 serves up a whole new flavor of biblical absurdity: after chapters of divinely sanctioned slaughter, suddenly everybody wants to write letters. The chapter kicks off with Lysias—the Seleucid general who absolutely just got his ass handed to him by Yahweh's gold-bridled cosplay squad—showing up with 80,000 infantry, cavalry, and eighty elephants because apparently he didn't learn the first time. The Jews do their usual routine: pray to God, ask for a "good angel" (because the bad ones are busy, presumably), and then get a visit from a heavenly horseman in white with gold weapons. Again. Because nothin...