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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

EST105 - I Don't Like Haman at All

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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ESTHER 5:9-13 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Opening song, "Spooklight" from the album, "The Clamour and the Crash" by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

Look, I don't know how else to put this in.

0:14.9

I just don't like Heyman.

0:17.2

He seems like a genuinely awful dude and that's not just because of the genocide.

0:22.9

Don't get me wrong.

0:23.9

The genocide is a pretty big deal and that is the primary reason I don't like him.

0:28.0

But he's also a terrible right-hand man to King Zerkees, who admittedly, he's a little

0:32.8

bit up and down himself, but Heyman is the second most powerful person on earth.

0:37.2

His job is to prop up the king and also to preserve the relationship between the throne and

0:44.5

the citizenry.

0:45.5

That means subjects, if they're not taken care of, if the realm doesn't function, that'll

0:51.1

be the end of the realm.

0:52.8

And even in relatively oppressive governments throughout history, everybody still gets that.

0:58.8

And there's only so much you can do to the citizenry before it breaks.

1:04.4

People will cease to consent to be governed if you're not just, if you don't take care

1:09.7

of them.

1:10.7

And they pay taxes and people who pay taxes eventually will be like, I think we should

1:15.8

get something for that.

1:18.3

So a second reason I don't like Heyman is that he abuses his position.

1:21.5

He's not any good at it.

1:22.7

He's willing to create an outgroup and then kill them in order to achieve his own goals.

1:28.2

He's unjustly weaponizing his power, his access to the throne, his access to the sword

1:35.9

for his own personal grudges.

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