They Started a Civil War Over a Pile of Rocks (almost)? | Joshua 22

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Joshua 22 is one of the Bible’s most unintentionally hilarious thrillers.
An altar gets built, everyone assumes it’s for the wrong god, and Israel immediately prepares for another war. Because obviously.

In this episode, I keep reading the Bible even though I’ve already debunked it — mostly out of a morbid fascination with how often genocide is treated like a minor inconvenience. We get PTSD-ridden soldiers, performative divine anger, apologetics doing backflips, and a near-holocaust over what turns out to be… a decorative altar.

We talk about:
Why God needs humans to suffer so He “feels loved”
The altar that almost caused another mass killing
Biblical loyalty tests, fear-based control, and abuse dynamics
Why Yahweh cares so much about shiny stuff
How this chapter accidentally becomes a soap opera
Why God’s anger has a weird 24-hour delay
And yes — very much clothing

This chapter actually has a story. A real one. Suspense, misunderstandings, and a surprisingly happy ending — if you ignore the oceans of blood underneath it all.

If you’re into Bible criticism, atheist commentary, religious deconstruction, dark humour, or just watching sacred texts collapse under their own logic, you’re in the right place.

Stick around to the end for what I loved about this chapter… and the one petty thing I absolutely loathed.

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Chapters:

00:00 Preview and Intro
00:59 Verse 1
01:04 Verse 2
01:15 Verse 3
01:29 Verse 4
01:50 Verse 5
05:58 Verse 6
05:15 Verse 7
05:30 Verse 8
07:37 Verse 9
08:24 Verse 10
08:41 Verse 11
09:05 Verse 12
09:31 Verse 13
09:43 Verse 14
09:58 Verse 15
10:10 Verse 16
10:52 Verse 17
11:03 Verse 18
12:33 Verse 19
13:58 Verse 20
15:01 Verse 21
15:11 Verse 22
15:26 Verse 23
16:16 Verse 24
16:30 Verse 25
18:28 Verse 26
18:36 Verse 27
19:15 Verse 28
19:53 Verse 29
21:04 Verse 30
21:18 Verse 31
21:58 Verse 32
22:11 Verse 33
22:28 Verse 34
24:31 Closing Thoughts

Keywords

Joshua 22, Bible commentary, atheist Bible study, Bible criticism, ex Christian, religious deconstruction, Bible explained, Old Testament violence, Yahweh, biblical genocide, skeptical Bible reading, Joel Reads Bible, Bible debunked, altar controversy, faith and fear