Are you ready to watch the celestial ego soar while human morality gets trampled? Join us on the irreverent romp through the divine melodrama of Jeremiah Chapter 4 in our latest podcast episode, where the Almighty apparently moonlights as a jealous lover with a penchant for over-the-top theatrics. Your snarky hosts are back, poking fun at the ancient text's depiction of a deity who's more concerned with his worship stats than with any meaningful moral compass.
In this episode, "The Almighty's Ego Trip: Unpacking Jeremiah's Melodrama," we're not just rolling our eyes; we're dissecting the perplexing narrative of a God whose jealousy rivals that of the pettiest high school drama. We've got threats, we've got smiting, and, oh yes, we've got the ever-entertaining image of heart circumcision. Because nothing says 'divine love' quite like a celestial command to chop chop your spiritual foreskin.
Dive into our philosophical musings as we question whether an immortal being can truly be considered 'alive,' especially if it's so caught up in whether its creations are singing its praises. We've got divine temper tantrums, prophetic guilt-trips, and a whole lot of ancient fear-mongering that sounds eerily similar to some modern-day fire and brimstone.
Don't miss our rants on the absurdity of a supreme being demanding the limelight while the world burns, and join in as we try to figure out why God's priorities are more misaligned than a crooked halo. Spoiler alert: We're pretty sure omnipotence shouldn't equate to being omni-needy.
As always, our thanks go out to Elizabeth, our newest patron saint of skepticism, for supporting our quest to bring humor and critical thinking to the often too-serious world of scripture analysis.
Whether you're a die-hard atheist, an agnostic on the fence, or a believer with a sense of humor, tune in for a dose of irreverence and some much-needed laughs at the expense of the ancient text that seems to have left its sense of humanity on the cutting room floor. Listen, laugh, and maybe even learn a thing or two about how not to run a universe. Check out "The Almighty's Ego Trip: Unpacking Jeremiah's Melodrama," because sometimes the best way to understand the divine is to realize it's just as flawed as we are.
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[00:00:00] Hey everyone, husband here.
[00:00:05] And I'm wife.
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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 in episode 1.
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[00:01:44] Alright, let's go read the Bible.
[00:01:46] Yeah, let's I mean God didn't say shit. So right right there's that Now before we get into what we're doing today. I do want to mention we have a new patron What yep, their name is Elizabeth. Oh
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[00:04:22] Or tap the banner to go to Monday.com. the Lord lives, then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast. I see. Does the Lord live? Like, is he an entity that is alive comes from. Okay. I don't like that. It's to chop off the foreskin of your dick. Right. Yeah. No, it's not a good visual image there.
[00:07:02] There's nothing that the word circumcise can ever be used for that won't make you think of a penis.
[00:07:08] Right. Like it should have to do with their actions and the way they live their lives, right? If you are a God, right? Yeah.
[00:08:20] And you shouldn't care whether that's direct than whether I'm raping children or cats?
[00:09:42] Right.
[00:09:43] Like honestly, I think they didn't apparently they didn't listen quick enough. No, okay
[00:11:00] This is in the same chapter God's like I'm gonna fuck you up
[00:11:03] He's like repent and before the tea get gets out of his mouth. He's like too late murdered and God's not doing anything for them. So they're like, uh, fuck this. Right. Yeah. I can't blame them really. No, I can't either. Then I said, alas, sovereign Lord, how completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying you will have peace when the sword is at our throats. I don't, I don't disagree. Yeah.
[00:12:22] At that time, this people and Jerusalem will be told Well, here's the thing. When we were talking about Greek gods and stuff like that, they had chariots and horses swifter than eagles. So I find this very interesting that we're talking about this god here. He advances like the clouds. His chariots come like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles.
[00:13:41] Woe to us, we are ruined.
[00:13:43] Like, this sounds like we're just grabbing a Greek god.
[00:13:47] It does a bit.
[00:13:48] Yeah. but I do have to say that I Feel like you know how when things are going bad, and people need scapegoats to blame shit on mm-hmm. I feel like essentially God is that scapegoat for everybody right like they're like well shit's going bad
[00:15:00] Well, not God specifically the Israelites. They, oh, this is why he's weeping. Yeah, he's weeping He's so sad. I see my heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent For I have heard the sound of the trumpet. I have heard the battle cry Disaster follows disaster the whole land lies in ruins in an instant my tensor destroyed
[00:16:23] My shelter in a moment the mountains and they were quaking. All the hills were swaying. I looked and there were no people. Every bird in the sky had flown away. I looked and the fruitful land was a desert. All its towns lay in ruins before the Lord before his fierce anger. Sounds to me like he needs to lay off the drugs. I think he was getting on some ayahuasca right
[00:17:41] there. Yeah. Because that's a hallucinatory. How have you never heard of ayahuasca? I've never heard of ayahuasca. That is so crazy to me. I'm not even sure that
[00:20:07] one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you. They want to kill you.
[00:20:13] I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child,
[00:20:19] the cry of daughter Zion gasping for wife, I guess that's the end, but husband that's just sad It doesn't have to be we are on lots of social media platforms like Twitter our handle there is sacrilege. It's underscore D
