#11149 Tips for Defending the Faith - Trent Horn

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 04:47 – Could you comment on arguments against legal abortion based on it allowing people to make lazy decisions? 12:08 – My son has a buddha statue in his home. My wife and I were invited over to dinner. I don’t feel comfortable going over because of how scandalous it is. What’s your advice? 20:21 – How do you respond to atheists who say you’re only Catholic because you grew up that way? 29:44 – How do you respond to a protestant who explains away Marian apparitions as demonic? 36:38 – Gavin Ortland claimed that the Church Fathers would not agree with what the Church became by the 1500’s. How would one debunk that? 45:58 – How do you reply to someone who says the Catholic version of baptism because of the sprinkling of water instead of submersion? 49:43 – We are studying centering prayer in our Catholic book club. The book by Fr. Thomas Keating says that we are God and my parish priest says St. Athanasius backs this up. Can you clarify? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Kathy Ganswell's live.
0:18.4	I'm Sy Kelly at your host, Big Friday show for you.
0:21.3	Second hour Dr. Stacey Trasenko will be here and we'll do faith in science.
0:25.4	You've got questions about faith in science, it's always fun to ask those of Stacey and
0:29.4	we always have a good time when she's here.
0:31.5	This hour, Trent Horn joins us with tips for defending the faith.
0:36.4	If you'd like tips for defending the faith, give us a call, 888-318-788-4, triple-8-318-7-88-4.
0:45.2	Trent Horn of course is the most, I don't want to say successful, that's the wrong word.
0:52.2	The most, not brilliant, brilliant is not the word, the best selling, that's it.
0:56.2	The best selling author in the country.
0:58.7	Persistent, yes, that's true.
1:01.6	Impervious to criticism, I don't know that that's true, I think I've seen you take criticism
1:08.0	gracefully before.
1:09.8	Trent, thanks for being here with us.
1:11.5	Well, thank you for having me, Sy.
1:13.4	Yeah, I'm very excited actually.
1:15.0	We are preparing, it's kind of hard, I've said this for a while now.
1:19.2	The second edition of my book, Persuasive Pro Life, but I'm looking at all the galley
1:22.8	proofs and the editorial department has told me they would like to get the book out for
1:30.7	June commemorating the first year anniversary of the DOBS decision that overturned Roe.
1:36.9	So I completely reworked Persuasive Pro Life as a book I wrote back in 2014 and I've
1:42.0	updated the statistics, I've added more arguments, I ironically decreased the book in length,
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