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June 22, 2025 97 mins

Zechariah’s Endgame: Plagues, Prophets, and WTF Apocalypse Fuel


📝 Episode Summary:


It’s the final chaotic cluster of Zechariah—chapters 12, 13, and 14—and oh boy, it’s less “holy scripture” and more “political manifesto meets acid trip.” Your favorite atheist duo dives into post-exilic fever dreams where Jerusalem gets divine superpowers, horses go blind, and God plays Mad Max with cups of judgment and supernatural rocks. Bonus: apparently the real apocalypse involves killing prophets, lying about your career path, and stamping “Holy to the Lord” on cookware.


We get messy with interpretations: is God pierced? Is it a metaphor for guilt? A prophecy about Jesus? Or just a confusing editorial mess written centuries after the fact to shore up priestly power? (Spoiler: probably that last one.) Expect tangents about nuclear war panic, theocracy creep, and why every chapter seems to be written by a different guy with anger issues. And if you thought things couldn’t get weirder—get ready for rivers of blood, horse bells, and sacrificial meat cookpots. Because Yahweh’s final mic drop is... sacred Tupperware?


This one’s jam-packed with snark, scholarship, political fury, and a healthy dose of Butthole Surfers. Yep, that happened.


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📌 Topics Covered:

  • “Divine intoxication, blind horses, and drunken geopolitical chaos”
  • “That time God killed ⅔ of his own people and called it purification”
  • “Why prophets suddenly needed to fake farm experience”
  • “The priesthood's jealous power grab dressed up as holy reform”
  • “How apocalyptic revenge fantasies replaced temple-building hope”
  • “Seriously—why does God care so much about pots and pans?
  • “No gods, just goat blood, guilt, and theological gaslighting”


💬 Best Quote from the Episode:

“Zechariah can lick my ass. How about that?”


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