Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists

The Dallas Cowboys walk into a cult psychology lecture…and somehow it makes perfect sense. In this episode, Sacrilegious Discourse uses football fandom as the gateway drug to a much bigger conversatio...

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 downf...

2 Maccabees 8 is what happens when the text decides God apparently loves guerrilla warfare, revenge, and a good old-fashioned body count. In this episode, the hosts dig into Judas Maccabeus rallying 6...

Seven brothers and their mom get hauled in under the king’s “eat pork or else” policy… and boy does “or else” show up ready to work. 2 Maccabees 7 turns into a full-on gore anthology: tongues cut out,...

We’re wrapping up the “between-the-testaments” chaos and realizing there’s a big missing bridge before we slam into the New Testament: how Judea went from Greek influence to Roman control, and why tha...

Antiochus (a.k.a. Mr. Forced-Assimilation) decides the Jews aren’t Greek enough, so he sends an Athenian envoy to “fix” that—by outlawing Jewish law, rebranding temples for Olympian Zeus, and basicall...

Second Maccabees kicks off like a group text from Jerusalem to the Jewish diaspora in Egypt—basically: “Hey fam, come celebrate the Temple rededication… also here’s some bonus lore.” And by “lore,” we...

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 g...

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 revel...

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 withou...

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 n...

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 ...

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 monito...

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 with Mi...

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? A pa...

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… and imm...

America claims separation of church and state , then turns Christianity into a loud, sweaty political identity, complete with church “startups,” worship bands, and a whole personality built around tel...

So… we accidentally finished 1 Maccabees . Like, fully. The last chapter. The end. Nobody noticed. Because we are professionals (derogatory). This episode is the frantic, hilarious cleanup where we ad...

Simon “I’m too old for this shit” Maccabee finally taps out and hands the family blood-feud business to his sons, because nothing says “healthy succession plan” like immediate warfare and a leadership...

Pronouns? Useless. Names? Recycled like a church bulletin. In this 1 Maccabees 11–15 Q&A , we finally stop the “he said to him who said to him” madness long enough to make a damn Seleucid cheat sh...