Jeremiah Chapter 19: Bible Study for Atheists

Jeremiah Chapter 19: Bible Study for Atheists

Are you ready for a holy roast of biblical proportions? Welcome to our irreverent take on Jeremiah Chapter 19, where we unpack the Almighty's penchant for pottery-based parables and divine temper tantrums. This isn't your Sunday school teacher's podcast – we're serving up a sacrilegious breakdown of the good book's darker chapters with a generous dose of snark and skepticism.


In this episode, we're picking apart the ancient text like it's the last day of a theology fire sale. Prepare for a no-holds-barred commentary on God's not-so-subtle approach to object lessons – smashing clay pots to scare the bejesus out of his chosen people. And because we're all about cultural references, expect a "nuclear vessel" detour à la Star Trek that's sure to warp your sense of scriptural seriousness.


We'll wade through the murky waters of prophecy, where God's wrath seems more like a cosmic overreaction to being ghosted by his earthly fan club. Was Jeremiah just the ancient world's equivalent of the town crier of doom, or was he onto something deeper? Spoiler alert: we're leaning towards the former.


Strap in as we venture into the treacherous intersection of mental health and religious visions. Could yesterday's prophets be today's mental health case studies? We'll explore the fine line between divinely inspired and desperately in need of a therapist – and how, historically, your diagnosis might just depend on your gender.


And because we can't resist a jab at the absurd, we'll even take a sidestep into modern-day politics, where biblical prophecies somehow find their way into state legislation. From frozen embryos to IVF chaos, it seems like some folks are taking their cues from a book that champions divine smiting and celestial scare tactics.


Join us for a blasphemous romp through the pages of Jeremiah 19, where we'll challenge everything you thought you knew about prophecies, divine judgments, and just how much the human psyche can take before it says, "I'm out." Whether you're a believer, an atheist, or just here for the giggles, we've got something to make your ears tingle – and not in the way Jeremiah intended.


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[00:00:00] Hey everyone, Husband here.

[00:00:05] And I'm Wife.

[00:00:06] If you've been listening to us, then you know we're all about reading the Bible and

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[00:00:24] There are two ways you can donate. we're reading the Bible for the very first time. We grew up without religion and wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Well what have we learned so far? That God is a dick and apparently some people believe in talking donkeys. We're not trying to pass ourselves off as experts. Nope, we're just reading the Bible for the first time and giving our first take reaction. If you'd like to join us in this venture you might consider starting at episode one.

[00:01:42] Otherwise jump in wherever you like. Alright let's go read the Bible. Yeah

[00:01:46] let's get to it. All right, so we are about to jump into Jeremiah chapter 19. We sure the fuck are but I But I have to tell you something first, okay, okay So this is gonna be about a broken vessel but anytime I hear the word vessel in this sense, I can only ever think of

[00:03:05] Star Trek for the voyage home because and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. Oh, are you gonna put them inside your flask? That's a big old flask. And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which that's Gehenna. So go to Gehenna, go to hell, go to the burning fires where we toss children,

[00:04:22] which is by the entry of the Potsher Gate

[00:04:26] or Pottsherd, remember we had that word before? Yes, who they hate right? It's just it might have something to do with pottery It's a speech within a speech within a speech within a flask, right? Yeah, behold I will bring such a catastrophe on this fucking place that whoever hears of it his ears will tingle Apparently they're all hearing about it because they're there if you're listening to this you're hearing about it

[00:05:43] So their ears are all tingling. Are you?

[00:06:44] offerings to Baal which I did not command or speak nor did it come into my mind end parentheses boys okay therefore behold I'm gonna behold the days are

[00:06:51] coming says the Lord yeah that this place this Gehenna yeah this fire pit

[00:06:56] with broken shards right shall no more be called to fit or the valley of the

[00:07:01] son of Hinnom no at the valley of slaughter we today call it Gehenna sure that much more impressive if he just like, you know, snapped his fingers and, you know, killed three quarters of them or something. Yeah, like if it is drop dead, right? Kind of like in The Avengers, right? The snapping, right? Like he didn't be like, I'm about to kill all your asses. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Right. He snapped his fingers and

[00:08:22] they all disappeared. Boom, done. Some dude up there's gonna be snakes I don't know right yeah yeah maybe

[00:09:43] cuz it's like so dry that it's like the fucking Bible Yeah, fuck off. You're this is a Christian hospital. So fuck off. I'm following the Bible. Yeah, fuck off, right?

[00:12:05] online and they never had to actually go on fucking campus to get their fucking degree and

[00:12:11] So they're kind of trash and they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Maybe they need to learn some more science

[00:12:14] Maybe I'm saying I think wife might be a little

[00:12:22] Might be a little uppity. Yeah, look and I'm not saying everybody gotta go get the vaccine because there are health reasons

[00:12:26] Why maybe it's not in your best interest to do that. But the more we go on and hear the same shit over and over and over, right. It makes me angry. Instead of being painful and making me cry, now it just makes me angry and pissy. Right, yeah. It's not that the emotion is not still there, but at some point, as we've been reading this, you realize we're reading a fictional book, right?

[00:13:42] And we're reading about how people perceive things

[00:13:45] should be done in a time that was thousands of years ago. Right. Okay. So yeah, we got some cannibalism happening, right? Then now the flask comes into play. Oh back to the flask Okay, you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you and say to them So this is still god talking. Yeah, so break that fucking flask Okay and say to them thus says the lord of the host So tell them I said this sure

[00:15:02] Yeah This place says the Lord and to its inhabitants and make this city like tofit Let us not forget that tofit is the name of all the places where they buried the bones of children that were sacrificed So, I mean, I'm not letting the people off scot-free here. They were pretty fucking nasty. Yeah. Yeah No, I mean we've discussed that like the practices that they were

[00:16:21] accused of doing anyway

[00:16:23] We have found right graves

[00:17:25] unbelievable. IVF companies have said we cannot operate under this. Yeah and I'm sure that there'll be a fix for somebody will fix this right because there's too

[00:17:29] much money at stake there's too many things that are just ridiculous like no

[00:17:35] one's going to support this going away because it's something that most people

[00:17:39] that have that problem want to have done. Well and the people that can afford IVF

[00:17:44] are the people with money right we're doing here when you are calling heart-visted frozen egg cells when you are calling those Children, right? Okay. So why aren't fathers paying child support for that? Then let me ask you like we've been reading this Bible for

[00:19:02] nearly four years now, right and

[00:20:06] Definitely ludicrous. I lend my name to that because yes it is. Right. All right. And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Tofet because

[00:20:12] of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the hosts of heaven and poured out

[00:20:19] drink offerings to other gods. Yeah that's I mean thing, right? A non-practicing Catholic, a non-practicing Christian. We have a lot of people that claim the religion just because that's what they grew up with, but they don't really. I mean, religion's been a thing for 4,000 to 6,000 years.

[00:21:42] Judaism and Christianity specifically, right? skip the sentence yeah I did I skipped a sentence I'm sorry let's start over ready go then Jeremiah came from the tofit where the Lord had sent him to prophecy and he stood in the court I don't know who's talking now this is a narrator voice okay where the Lord had sent him to prophecy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to the people this is Jeremiah talking now Jeremiah

[00:23:01] yeah thus says the Lord of hosts the god of Israel okay now God Jeremiah is about to quote God right Jeremiah has been walking around shouting in people's faces. He gonna get ya, right? He gonna get you not only that but he's using He's telling people I'm gonna use God as a hitman I'm gonna kill you fuckers specifically cuz you don't like me and you laughed at me, right? Kinda like remember when the guy Had the bear eat the children because the children laughed at him for being bald. Yeah, it was either Elijah or Elijah

[00:24:25] Yeah, yeah, that's what this strikes me at right Out at the mouth right in front of a large groups of people because I'd feel like any minute one of those fuckers is gonna kill Me why would they fucking care? They don't they're gonna die anyway How many people do you think that got a God quote unquote God? Yeah tapped for this job that were like nope and then they died of the plague or whatever and we don't ever hear about them because

[00:25:41] They were like, I'm not doing that. That's I mean realistically, I think none right obviously but like in cannon and cannon I

[00:26:42] pariah or

[00:26:47] Definitely. Definitely if you were a woman because you notice all of the fucking prophets are men, right? Oh, yeah, and when women do it

[00:26:49] They're just witches right and burn them at the stake and kind of shit like that

[00:26:53] So I would imagine that people that were crazy had one of two options and that is to either be

[00:26:59] An outcast and just labeled crazy for being crazy or lean into the religion

[00:27:04] into it, you know

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