Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

What if you could prove the existence of God from the dictionary alone?

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, I'm your host, Catholic Anches Apologist and

Speaker, Trent Horn.

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Now on to the topic of today's episode.

Today, we're going to talk about the ontological argument for the existence of God.

Why are we doing that?

Because today is the feast day of the arguments and ventures, Saint Enselm of Canterbury.

So Saint Enselm was a Benedictine monk and abbot philosopher and theologian who was archbishop

of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

So during the 11th and beginning of the 12th centuries, for his resistance to the English

kings, William II and Henry I, he was exiled twice from 1097 to 1119, and he was exiled

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