Welcome back to Shemis Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to belatedly talk about some of the arguments that were made by Wes Huff,

both because I think he's worth responding to in his own right, and because I think the errors that he's spreading are the kind of errors about the Bible that many Christians believe.

Now, if you're not familiar with who Wes Huff is, he got extremely famous in the world of Christian apologetics a couple months ago

when, in short succession, he first debated Billy Carson on Christianity. That debate has millions

of views and every single person I've seen review it said that Wes absolutely trounce

Billy Carson's crazy claims about the Bible. But then if that wasn't big enough,

shortly thereafter, Joe Rogan invites Wes on. And they had what was honestly an amazing interview.

Now, I rarely listen to the super long-form stuff. I've got three small kids, and I rarely have

three hours I'm looking to kill. But I think I listen to every word of that three hour and 15 minute long episode.

Now, Wes was so clearly better informed on the history of biblical manuscripts and the like

than most of the people commenting on YouTube doing apologetics or going on Joe Rogan.

So, you know, naturally there are moments where he makes a few mistakes,

and I know people caught some of those, but he also quickly owned them. So I came away and

pressed both with his intelligence and his humility. The mistakes, frankly, weren't even the

surprising part of that. Everybody is going to get details wrong in what's essentially a 200 minute long episode in

which they're responding to random questions on everything from the Bible to ancient Egyptian

history. What was surprising was how effectively he could remember even arcane information. Now,

all of that is a long way of saying that I think Wes Huff is a good faith, smart,

Protestant thinker who's worth taking seriously.

But when he talks about Catholicism, he often makes these just rudimentary errors, things that

I'm genuinely surprised someone of his intelligence and goodwill. The caliber of arguments are just much worse than I would expect.

So, for instance, here he is arguing for why Catholic Bibles are bigger.

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