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Second Maccabees kicks off like a group text from Jerusalem to the Jewish diaspora in Egyptâbasically: âHey fam, come celebrate the Temple rededication⦠also hereâs some bonus lore.â And by âlore,â we mean sacred…
Welcome to the episode where Greek gymnasiums aren’t about leg day, they’re about full-frontal assimilation and the kind of identity politics that involves… anatomy. The hosts dig into how the Greek gymnasium was basically…
Forty-ish days of sky cavalry (yes, literal “cavalry appeared in the midst of the sky” vibes) kicks off 2 Maccabees 5, and it’s immediately giving “ancient mass hallucination” more than “divine revelation.” While Antiochus…
Turns out the importance of religion is allegedly dropping “dramatically across the world”… which is both comforting and deeply annoying when you live in the U.S. Midwest and can’t walk outside without tripping over…
Welcome back to Sacrilegious Discourse, where we read the Bible so you don’t have to. This week 2 Maccabees Chapter 4 delivers the spiritual equivalent of a corrupt city council meeting… with bonus nude…
Three dead Americans. Three official stories. And a whole lot of “trust us, bro” from the same federal machine that keeps demanding obedience while waving guns around like they’re handing out parking tickets. In…
Jerusalem’s supposedly vibing in “unbroken peace” until one petty bureaucratic snitch decides the temple treasury looks a little too stacked—and runs to the Seleucid power structure like a hall monitor on a sugar high.…
Snowpocalypse hit Ohio, the schedule got wobbly, and somehow that still wasn’t the most chaotic thing in this episode. We kick off 2 Maccabees Chapter 2 with a very real moment, our hearts are…
A peaceful 20-minute protest walks into a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul, Minnesota… and somehow the church reacts like it got hit with the Book of Revelation and a Yelp review. The target?…
Welcome to Second Maccabees, Chapter 1, aka “First Maccabees, but make it churchy.” The crew kicks off with the Jews in Jerusalem sending a very official “hey fam” letter to the Jews in Egypt……
