Matthew Chapter 4: Bible Study by Atheists
Jesus gets baptized, immediately wanders into the wilderness, fasts for 40 days and 40 nights, and then Satan shows up with the spiritual equivalent of a bad frat dare: “Turn rocks into bread,” “jump…
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Jesus gets baptized, immediately wanders into the wilderness, fasts for 40 days and 40 nights, and then Satan shows up with the spiritual equivalent of a bad frat dare: “Turn rocks into bread,” “jump…
Matthew Chapter 3 comes crashing in with John the Baptist yelling in the wilderness, wearing camel hair, eating locusts and honey, and apparently expecting everyone to already know who the hell he is. Spoiler:…
Matthew Chapter 2 wastes absolutely no time turning the Jesus story into a celestial scavenger hunt with suspiciously convenient prophecy receipts. We get the Magi following a star, Herod spiraling because somebody called a…
After nearly six years wandering through the Old Testament wilderness, we finally stumble into the New Testament and immediately trip over Matthew’s opening move: a genealogy. Because apparently before we can meet Jesus, we…
Before diving face-first into the Gospel of Matthew, we take a detour into the big awkward question Christians rarely love answering: who actually wrote this thing? Spoiler: probably not Matthew. The episode walks through…
The Macadoodles are finally done, and with them, the long, bloody, deeply weird road through the Old Testament gets wrapped in one last historical/religious/political burrito. This episode ties 1 and 2 Maccabees together by…
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…