Did Christopher Nolan Christianize The Odyssey?

About this Episode

Scott and Bill head back to ancient Greece—by way of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. They explore what Nolan does with Homer’s strange, violent, morally complicated epic and take up a provocative debate sparked by Ben Shapiro and Ezra Klein: Has Nolan “Christianized” The Odyssey?

What happens when a pagan story about glory, cunning, fate, and the gods is reframed around guilt, mercy, homecoming, and redemption? Is Nolan imposing a Christian moral universe on Homer—or revealing themes that were already hiding in plain sight?

Along the way, Scott and Bill talk myth, movies, Christianity, modern politics, and why stories written nearly three thousand years ago still have the power to tell us something unsettling about ourselves.