Welcome back to Samus Popery. I'm Joe Heschweir, and today I want to respond to a series of arguments against Catholicism made by the popular evangelical pastor, Vlad Savchuk.

And full disclosure, I'm not particularly familiar with him. I've seen a few clips of him, but it turns out he's massively popular on YouTube.

So I'm going to try to be as fair as I can to him.

It's clear that we run in kind of different spaces. His blog is mostly focused on, as far as I can tell,

spiritual warfare, demonic attack, and possession. And similarly, like when you look at

Vlad Savchuk interview, which I often do to make sure I'm pronouncing people's names, right?

I'll try to find an interview where somebody else introduces him.

His top result is an alleged interview with Lucifer.

So this is the kind of stuff that he often does.

But on Monday, somebody asked me to respond to a video that he made called Catholicism

versus Christianity. And in it, he lays out

10 arguments for why he's not Catholic. And I thought I'd go ahead and respond to all 10 of those

arguments. But before I get to those 10, I want to just question the whole frame of putting in this

as Catholicism versus Christianity rather than Catholicism versus Protestantism.

And I think Pastor Vlad, as he's called, knows better because he grew up in Ukraine

where there are plenty of people who are neither Catholic nor Protestant, but would still be

considered Christian. So the first kind of foundational question is, are Protestancy only Christians? And he is going to say,

no, Catholics and Orthodox are Christians, and then spend the rest of the video denying that. So here

you can see his argument where he claims that most Christians are Catholic. Why am I not a Catholic?

Ten differences between Catholics and Christians.

Christianity has about 2.2 billion people under its umbrella.

Out of which 1.3 billion of people are Catholics.

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