Jay Dyer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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I'm Orthodox because I went through a long journey trying to figure out what authentic Christianity is.
And so I was raised Baptist.
That took me eventually into Catholicism when I was about 20, 21, I think.
I read...
St.
Augustine's City of God, I read a bunch of his other works, and I thought, well, Baptist isn't right because I'm finding in the Church Fathers all these teachings that are not Baptist.
And so that kind of gradually took me in the realm of traditional Roman Catholicism, did that for a long time.
And as you get into, I think, the more recent problems of Vatican II,
post-Vatican II theology, that led me to the question of how do I reconcile this with what I know the first thousand years of Christianity teaches?
So long story short, it took me about eight or 10 years.
I finally came to the Orthodox Church about 10 years ago.
It's an area that we're not taught.
I know that when I went to college, the only thing that we talked about from that whole period was like Augustine's Confessions and maybe one other book or two.
Then we have something called the Dark Ages and nothing happens.
Nothing about Byzantium.
so i and i remember at college i was like pressing the department like why don't we study some medieval stuff some byzantine stuff and they were like why should we we don't care about that christian stuff so um yeah i think there's probably a little bit of an intentional desire to suppress that uh for i mean american education i think it's pretty much brainwashing so um so but yeah one sentence this might take between constantine and the fourth century
and the renaissance you had christian civilization the most successful empire in history is the byzantine empire from constantine all the way up until you know the fall of byzantium to to the to the muslims so um
It's a common sort of academic assessment just in terms of they flourished on a gold standard for a really long time.
They started clipping the gold, money clipping like the Roman Empire in the West had done before them and other empires.
So they fell prey to usury as well.
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