Is Jesus really the “reason for the season?” Find out in this podcast all about Saint Nicholas, mistletoe, Christmas trees, winter solstice festivals, Saturnalia, and Coca-Cola. Also, an expanded Skunk Dick section featuring a couple of Fox News blondes being outraged by their misunderstanding of the holiday.

The latest in our seemingly infinite series on the Gospels, part 53 of the Gospel of St Luke focuses on the parables of Jesus as painstakingly recorded by Luke the physician, who wasn’t an eyewitness to the preachings of Jesus but nonetheless managed to capture multiple parables that escaped Matthew, Mark, and John. We also go over the Lord’s prayer and Luke’s non-eyewitness account of Jesus’s passion and resurrection.

Also, we cover lots of skunk dicks this go-round in a wide-ranging discussion about gasterous balls, burning boobs, and Pat Robertson, who could just be the biggest boob of all.

Oh man, Ed and Lorraine Warren are at it again. These two nice, honest, and not at all charlatany monster hunters are just out and about, lecturing people about ghostology and giving helpful pro-tips to avoid getting anally raped by demons. This time, however, it’s not demons who are to blame but a witch! And not just any witch, but a descendant of a witch convicted by that ever-so-rational body of inquiry, the Salem Witch Trials. So you know it’s true.

Also, skunk dicks and iTunes reviews.

Continuing our epic series, we have reached the final synoptic, the Gospel According to Saint Luke. Definitely gentile, possibly written much later than the rest, this gospel also has its share of stupid moments: Mary busting out into song like a 50’s musical, the “worldwide census” no one remembers, the holy parents leaving the Savior of the Universe back in Jerusalem for three days (“honey, have you seen Jesus anywhere?” “I thought you had him!”), John the Baptist sorta kinda baptizin’, etc etc. All this and a bag of skunk dicks.

Part 2 covers Jesus’s triumphal entry on the back of two donkeys, what is now known as “the fig tree incident,” Jesus’s trial, crucifixion, death, and resurrection, and also the little-known and not remembered Zombie Apocalypse of 33 AD.

Also, Skunk Dicks, iTunes reviews, and lots of random blather.

EDIT: Here is a link to the Shirley Phelps-Roper interview mentioned in the podcast, which I do not recommend to anyone who values their brain.

And we’ve arrived at our critique of the book of Matthew, or as we like to call it here, “the gospel according to some anonymous Greek-speaking Gentile.” Is it the most Jewy of the gospels? Does it “complement” Mark or contradict it? Is its nativity story reliable? Did Jesus really descend from David?

All these questions answered and more in the latest blasphemilicious episode of Irreligiosophy.