About this episode

The episode discusses the misconceptions surrounding the Byzantine Empire and its relationship with early Christianity, featuring an interview with Jay Dyer.

Jay Dyer's interview on Tucker Carlson this week once again proved how far Christians are willing to go out of either ignorance or malicious intent to slap their label on things that do not belong to them , even if they contributed to the same after the fact. Jay claimed that the Byzantine empire was the greatest in history of the world because of Christianity. He also claimed yoga was anti-Christian and magic was wicked, while simultaneously saying that he believed literal bread and wine could be turned into the literal flesh and blood of a God and then consumed. Constantinople was founded in 330 CE. Christianity was adopted as the state religion of the Roman empire in 380 CE. Byzantine was not referred to as such until approximately 100 years later. However, Byzantine was simply the eastern half of the Roman empire. Although Byzantine was primarily Christian, Christians did not build it from the ground because the eastern empire was a continuation of the collective empire, and it inherited all the same economic, social, legal, etc. elements from a primarily non-Christian world. To paint Byzantine as a Christian empire as opposed to the alternative Muslim world is dishonest…

People in this episode

Host: Ryan Gable

Guest: Jay Dyer

Topics covered

• Byzantine Empire
• Early Christianity
• Religious History
• Christianity vs. Other Religions
• Cultural Influence
• Historical Analysis

Keywords

• Byzantine Empire
• Christianity
• Jay Dyer
• Tucker Carlson
• historical analysis
• Zoroastrianism
• religion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Christianity, Zoroastrianism

Places: Byzantine empire, Roman empire, Constantinople, Sasanian empire

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