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Bible Study for Atheists Weekly is a collection of last week's episodes by Sacrilegious Discourse with Husband and Wife. This week's collection includes Psalms Chapters 126 - 137 plus LIVE in Dayton OH and Patreon Teaser.

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Husband and Wife discuss how we can somehow manage to avoid being murderers even tho we're atheists, because it always seems to shock Christians that we have morals, ethics, and deeply rooted values — an internal compass that encourages us NOT to pull whiskers off kittens

— in this bonus episode for Patreon subscribers only.

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This episode was recorded before a live audience

as an event sponsored by Dayton Freethought at Brixx in Dayton, Ohio.

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Psalm 135: The Greatness of the LORD and the Vanity of Idols / Praise to God in Creation and Redemption / Many Mercies. Starts (and ends!), "Praise ye the LORD." Stop doing idols, y'all. Stop it. No idoling. No one likes an idoler.

Psalm 136: Praise for the LORD's Everlasting Mercy / Many Mercies / A Litany of Thanksgiving/ The Great Hallel. Starts, "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." His love endures forever, even as he murders people and kills babies. His love endures forever, while cancer slays our loved ones and people go hungry. His love endures forever, and also there's a report out now that aliens do in fact exist. His love endures forever, but hang on a minute can we talk about aliens for a minute? Holy shit! ALIENS!

Psalm 137: The Mourning of the Exiles in Babylon. Starts, "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept." In 1992, the rock/reggae group Sublime released a live cover of the Rastafarianon song "Rivers of Babylon," in part based on the opening verses of Psalm 137, on their album 40oz. to Freedom.

https://youtu.be/dULC24US1w8

And of course this reminded Wife of the 80s hit song "Voices of Babylon" by The Outfield. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/XtcCwl_sUWw

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Psalm 132: A Prayer for Blessing on the Sanctuary. Starts, "Lord, remember David." This is the longest of the 15 psalms categorized as "a song of ascents." There is literally nothing special about this psalm. No notes. It is a perfectly blah specimen of Davidic bullshittery.

Psalm 133: The Blessings of Brotherly Unity. Starts, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." The best part of this short psalm is the bit about how some plants are referred to as "Aaron's beard" because my dude didn't wear a bib when Moses dumped oil over his head.

Psalm 134: Exhortation to the Night-watchers / Praising the Lord in His House at Night. Starts, "Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD." Psalm 34 is the last of the fifteen Songs of Ascents! It urges us to pray for our leaders rather than hold them accountable and demand action.

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Psalm 129: A Prayer for the Overthrow of Downfall of Zion's Enemies / A Song of Victory over Zion’s Enemies / A Song of Degrees. Starts, "Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth." Why it was made one of the 'Songs of ascents' is unknown. Honestly that tracks for most of these psalms. They are shorter than the rest but otherwise don't really stand out as anything much different.

Psalm 130: Hope in the LORD's Redemption. Starts, "From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord." It is one of the psalms traditionally recited in times of communal distress. When I'm in distress I chant expletives, but you do you, boo.

Psalm 131: Childlike Repose in the LORD. Starts, "Lord, my heart is not haughty." Just empty your cute little brain of all thoughts. Don't worry over matters better left to your legislators. Get back to work and stop all that learning stuff. Education isn't for you. (Ugh. The message here is so gross.)

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Psalm 126: Thanksgiving for Restoration. Starts, "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion." Psalm 126 was proposed by religious Zionists to be the national anthem of the State of Israel. It got rejected. But its feelings aren't hurt too bad because it later inspired the hymn "Bringing in the Sheaves" and got to appear multiple times in Little House on the Prairie (so take THAT, naysayers!)

"Bringing in the Sheaves"

performed by gospel trio The Samuels

https://youtu.be/3RAUv7by07k

Psalm 127: Prosperity Comes from the LORD / The Builder's Psalm. Starts, "Except the Lord build the house." This psalm is recited as a prayer for protection of a newborn infant and is invoked by the Quiverfull movement, as one of the foundations for their stance that large families are a blessing from God. It is also often inscribed on buildings. Honestly, Legos should get in on this as the natural bridge between these two ideologies.

Psalm 128: The Blessedness of Him Who Fears the LORD. Starts, "Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD." Psalm 128 is used on the feast of the Holy Family, which presents the Holy Family as a model for Christian families in that all little boys should claim to be the Son of God and grow up to be tortured and murdered. Now that's a religion we can get behind! /s

Side Note: The Twelve Days of Christmas are the days between December 25th and January 6th.

The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ is a Christian celebration of the circumcision of Jesus that generally falls on January 1st (the 8th Day of Christmas).

Epiphany immediately follows the Twelve Days of Christmas and is a celebration that primarily commemorates the baptism of Jesus and his presentation to the Magi. It is held on the Sunday between January 7 through January 13.

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Chapter 1: Droll Characters, from A Treasury of Jewish Folklore.

In this episode of the Sacrilegious Book Club, topics include Schnorrers and Beggars:

black humor; laughter thru tears; satire; beggars with chutzpah; creative hornswoggling; and fleecing by witty rogues.

Next time, we will cover some entries from Wags and Wits. We hope you'll get a copy of the book and read along with us.

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Bible Study for Atheists Weekly is a collection of last week's episodes by Sacrilegious Discourse with Husband and Wife. This week's collection includes Psalms Chapters 113 - 125 plus Sacrilegious Book Club.

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Psalm 123: A Prayer for Mercy / the Psalm of the eyes. Starts, "Unto thee lift I up mine eyes." Take heed / 'cause he's a lyrical poet / Psalm's on the scene / just in case you didn't know it. (That's some souped-up Vanilla Ice lyrics because I guess sometimes Hebrew rhymes.)

Psalm 124: Praise for Deliverance from Enemies. Starts, "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side." I scream, you scream, we all scream for VERSICLES!

Gimme a V —

Psalm 125: The LORD Is Round about His People. Starts, "They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion." Book recommendation: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, by Bill Bryson. It's funny, educational, enlightening, heart-warming, and ultimately way better than the Bible while still leaving readers with that same appreciation for mountains that this psalm purports to inspire.

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