Welcome back to Samus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I spend a lot of time on this channel

responding to objections raised against Catholicism by Protestant apologists or by non-Christians.

And I think because of that, a significant portion of my audience is actually Orthodox.

Now, as a Catholic, I'm very grateful to have you here.

We have a lot of areas of agreement, as I think the rest of my videos show.

I also know, though, that many of the people watching this channel might be Protestants who are

right now discerning whether they're meant to remain Protestant or become Orthodox or become

Catholic. And that can be a heavy question to discern. So today, I want to address that question

outright. Why be Catholic and non-Eastern

Orthodox? We're going to look at some of the areas we disagree. I'm going to actually answer

this by telling you my reasons. Now, other people have their own lists. My reasons may or may not

click for you. I hope you'll let me know either way in the comments. And speaking of clicking,

if you click on the link in the description below to shamelessjo.com, that's my Patreon. You can get bonuses there, like had free

episodes and Q&As for as little as $5 a month. And by the way, a special thank you to McKinsey

over on Patreon for asking me to make this episode. Now, I'm grateful both to her and for everybody supporting this

channel over at Shamelessjo.com. So let's begin with four areas where I think Catholics and Orthodox,

at least broadly speaking, agree. First of all, we reject the idea of self-shepherding sheep.

There's this model of Christianity associated with Protestantism in which the individual

searching for the right church has to first settle all the big theological questions for themselves.

And then once they figured out their own interpretation of everything in the Bible, they find

the denomination or the church that best agrees with them. But this approach is not biblically sound.

Nobody in the Bible behaves like this. Worse,

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