Writing Archive
Essays, commentary, and Bible-study writing carried over from the original site and organized for easier reading.
The Sacrilegious Discourse crew wraps up 2 Maccabees chapters 11–15 with a gloriously skeptical Q&A episode full of war stories, timeline confusion, divine propaganda, and enough named generals to make your brain file for…
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…
This round of Sacrilegious Discourse dives headfirst into 2 Maccabees 14, where political snitching, fake loyalty, and religious propaganda all collide in one gloriously deranged chapter. Alcimus rats out Judas, Demetrius sends Nicanor to…
2 Maccabees 13 is a messy little fever dream of military numbers, political backstabbing, war elephants, and one extremely weird ash-tower execution method, and we are not okay. In this episode, we drag our…
2 Maccabees Chapter 12 is what happens when a propaganda machine runs out of fresh material and just starts copy‑pasting numbers. After the diplomatic letters of chapter 11 supposedly bought the Jews some peace,…
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…
This week on Sacrilegious Discourse, the hosts dive into 2 Maccabees chapters 6 through 10—which somehow manages to cram in torture, rotting flesh, worms, divine vengeance, and a Hanukkah recap like it’s assembling the…
This week on Sacrilegious Discourse , the hosts dive into 2 Maccabees chapters 6 through 10 âwhich somehow manages to cram in torture, rotting flesh, worms, divine vengeance, and a Hanukkah recap like itâs…
2 Maccabees Chapter 10 kicks off with temple rededication, sacred cleanup, and the origin-story vibes of Hanukkah—because nothing says “holy renewal” like tearing down altars, relighting lamps, and immediately getting dragged back into divinely…
2 Maccabees 9 is what happens when biblical writers decide simple death isn’t dramatic enough and go full body-horror revenge fantasy instead. In this episode, we dig into Antiochus’ spectacular downfall—complete with chariot chaos,…
