our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed Scholar Andrew Henry of Religion for Breakfast tells Jonny Thomson why religion resists definition and what online debates about faith keep getting wrong. Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion and the creator and host of Religion for Breakfast, a YouTube channel dedicated to the academic study of religion that he launched[…] Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion and the creator and host of Religion for Breakfast, a YouTube channel dedicated to the academic study of religion that he launched[…] NYU philosopher Ned Block explains why he thinks today’s AI isn’t conscious, what the hard problem still leaves unanswered, and why biology may matter. The director of Donnie Darko on why the film is so misunderstood Scholars of religion still can't agree on what religion is, and Andrew Henry, creator of Religion for Breakfast, thinks that tells us something.
In this conversation with Jonny Thomson, he explains why he looks at what religious practices do rather than what they claim, why a stadium chant and a church creed may be closer than they seem, and why "true Christianity" is harder to pin down than its defenders suggest. They also take on common debate points, from the historical Jesus to Tom Holland's claim that Western values are Christian at heart. Jonny Thomson: Hello everybody and welcome to today's live conversation.
Andrew Henry, a scholar of religion and best known for his hugely popular YouTube channel Religion for Breakfast. Andrew holds a PhD in religious studies from Boston University where he studied magic and demonology in the late Roman Empire. And today we are exploring what people tend to get wrong about religion, what are the common misrepresentations and straw men that exist in the debate between all parties.
So before this conversation, I asked members of the community and people on social media for some questions. About what they consider to be either straw men or misrepresentations or common kind of debating points. And so I thought we might talk about some of them according to different categories like Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, paganism, etc., etc.
But before that, I have to know, how do you summon the demon in the Roman Empire? Andrew Henry: Oh, man, that's a good question. So it's a tricky question because when we think of demon, it's such a Christian concept.
So it's a very polarized concept that you have demons on one side and angels on the other side. The word demon actually comes from the Greek daimones. And especially in, you know, Classical Greek era, it really referred to, I mean, the Homeric hymns, it refers to gods.
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