Steve Bannon

You just have to be performative and we'll look the other way and you can go along and lead your life.

And it's obviously more important to lead your life and have your community if you just do this performative.

And about the Christians said, I can't do that.

That is to the core of it.

It's very chilling.

Because many of the Roman emperors, many of the Roman officials make a quite modern argument, right?

They just be performative.

Just do this so that we can get past it because we're not that interested in snuffing you out.

We just want to get past this.

And what's amazing is the Christians said, I'm not doing that, that that did like one, you know, one thing of incense in front of a statue, not just the polytheism, but a statue of of Augustus Caesar or whatever, you know, whatever emperors at the time cuts to the core of my being.

It's very chilling that the Christians had the option and were dangled off and not all the time, but to dangle the option of just be performative and go about your business.

They said no.

That that it's performative to you, but it cuts to the core of my faith and I won't do it.

And they were then and they told him, hey, you're going to have the most heinous tortures if you don't.

And they said, hey, it's it is what it is.

Tom Williams.

Hang on, Tom.

We're going to take a break.

We're going to talk about, by the way, we wouldn't have had Christianity bequeathed to us as it was if the early church had been accommodationist.

They weren't.