Steve Bannon

You actually say, well, you ain't seen nothing yet.

I want to go back to this concept and it gets bandied about a lot, but I would like you to define it for our audience.

The post-Christian West.

What do you mean about post-Christian West?

How did we get there?

Because we think of the Judeo-Christian West as a society and culture really predicated upon Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome.

How was that formed?

What did it mean?

And why do you say and can point to that we're in a post-Christian society?

Talk to us about the first century church.

What was it about Christianity that was different?

What was it about Christianity that caused the great persecution and everything that led up to that?

Because in understanding that, you can then begin to understand the coming Christian persecution.

That's essentially the thesis of your book, right?

You must go back in time and understand what differentiated this from other religions, what differentiated this as a faith,

to see the strong reaction of the Roman state against it leading up to the Great Persecution, sir?

One of the things about the book that's very chilling is to show that some of the emperors, and it's almost like the modern world, they understand these Christians have the deep faith, but they're kind of saying, hey,

All you got to do is light some incense.

All you have to do, you don't have to give up what you really believe.

You just have to light some incense.