Sometimes Protestant social media accounts will try to make Catholics look bad, but they end up either making Catholicism look good, or they make themselves look like heretics.

So in today's episode, we're going to look at five common ways Protestants end up dunking on themselves when they try to own Catholics on social media.

Number one, awful is actually awesome. Some Protestant accounts like to share Catholic content that they consider unusual or off-putting, and then use that to try and impugn Catholicism as a whole. One account that does this a lot is Protestia, which, to be fair, shows absurdities across a wide range of Christian denominations. For example, here's one video of which the account says, if someone asks you to describe Protestia's content, you can show them this video,

a gay pastor dressed up as a Jedi singing Charles Wesley's Ye Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim,

to the tune of the Star Wars theme song.

Servants of God, your master proclaim,

and publish abroad his wonderful name.

That's bad. It's even worse than the Life Day song set to the tune of a New Hope

from the 1978 Star Wars holiday special, where you can see Harrison Ford dying on the inside

as he has to sit through this monstrosity.

A lot of protestia is legit, cringy content. And so when it comes to the Catholic Church, which has 1.4 billion members, you're bound to find similar cringe somewhere on the internet. I'm looking at you, hoverboard priest. But what many people think is cringe actually isn't. For example, it's not cringe to ask you to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on our content,

and to support us at trendhornpodcast.com so we can keep producing all this great content sponsor-free.

And it's also not cringe to be a Catholic that can also have fun in the secular world.

For example, here's a post on Protestia featuring the DJ priest from the Last World

Youth Day, Padre Guillermo, remixing the Mario theme for a concert.

It's me, Mario.

What's funny is I know some Catholics who also do not like this, but far more non-Catholics would be impressed by this and want to learn more about the DJ priest in his faith.

Next, here's a clip they posted of children kissing a crucifix to honor Christ, which isn't bad considering many people kiss pictures of their deceased loved ones.

Or here we have this celebration in Europe of a float depicting Jesus,

meeting and embracing a float depicting his mother Mary, and then everybody celebrates.

This is awesome, and it kind of makes a nice argument for Mary's bodily assumption into heaven,

because the only way Jesus could physically embrace his mother, as any good son should,

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