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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: 2 Maccabees Chapter 15: Bible Study by Atheists
Description: The atheist Bible podcast train finally slams into the end of the Old Testament with 2 Maccabees 15, and wow... it goes out exactly the way you’d expect: with war propaganda, divine favoritism, ghostly nonsense, and a severed head hung up like some kind of holy home décor. In this episode, we break down the final chapter of 2 Maccabees, where Nicanor decides the Sabbath is a great day for battle, Judas Maccabeus gets hyped up by a dream featuring Jeremiah’s ghost handing him a gold sword, and Yahweh once again gets credit for mass slaughter because apparently that still...