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

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Categantz's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And if you've been watching the podcast for a while, you know I've done a few series

called How Protestants Argue Like Atheists.

In those episodes, I've showed that some of the arguments and strategies that Protestants

used undermine Catholicism actually mirror attempts that atheists used to undermine Christianity

itself.

So for example, some Protestants say that Catholicism is nothing more than rehashed paganism.

You know, veneration of Mary is no different than veneration of ancient goddesses.

This is just repackaged paganism.

But atheists do the same thing to Christianity.

They say that the worship of Jesus Christ, the risen son of God, that's just repackaged

paganism.

It's taking dying and rising gods of the ancient world and repackaging it in the form

of Jesus.

Now Protestants rightfully say, no, there's important differences here.

And Jesus is not like those pagan deities.

But then Catholics can say the same thing about veneration given to Mary.

If you want more on that, check out those episodes.

But right now, I am putting all of the observations I've made together into a book.

And I'm hoping to finish that book actually by the end of this month.

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