Welcome back to Samus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. I want to do something a little different

different different Protestant arguments against Catholicism, and I want to rank them

in a purely subjective way or almost purely subjective way in terms of how good and interesting,

I think the arguments are compared to how much they can just be dispelled by having the other person, like, read a book.

And so, you know, I don't know if you're like me. I really like tier lists. I like watching people's videos. I have no idea why. It's not like this desire for order goes anywhere else. But it does help me, I don't know, evaluate how convincing other people find

arguments that maybe I'm familiar with. For instance, Austin from Gospel Simplicity recently did a

tier list on Catholic arguments and how convincing he found them in unconvincing. And his and my

list would have looked pretty different. So take it for that, right?

Like these are the arguments I find, obviously not personally convincing because they haven't

convinced me to not be Catholic, but at least ones that maybe make me stop and think more.

Or ones where I think like, oh, I see why a person, you know, struggling with that would think

I can't be Catholic.

And then the ones that I'm

sometimes a little baffled by, the ones where I struggle a little more to think, yeah, I can see

why someone would think that. So please take it in that spirit. And obviously, I don't mean any

disrespect. If you find some argument more or less convincing, you might have a different list.

And obviously, the most important

arguments are the ones that you're grappling with. And I'm happy to grapple with whatever arguments

people have. So I've done the tier list in this order. At the top are arguments that I find

actually interesting. So I'll give an example of this.

Papal authority in the first thousand years.

This you'll often find, even though I'm putting it in the, you know,

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