Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

It's good to be back.

We have been apart for too long.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, CalfiGances, Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I'm going to be responding to a short argument against the resurrection of Jesus

Christ being put out by counter-apologists.

So it's interesting on the internet, some people will derisively refer to me as an apologist,

you know, people will sometimes say, oh, here's what Trent Horn says about X and atheists

on the internet, especially quote unquote, new atheists or the internet atheist will say,

oh, I don't need to listen to what an apologist has to say.

Now an apologist is just someone who defends a particular position.

Some of these atheists online will take the term apologist and think it only applies

to people who are defending Christianity.

But I've got a new splash for you.

If you defend any position, including atheism, which is a position by the way, some atheists

will say, well, atheism isn't a belief.

It's a lack of belief, but that's too simple.

I mean, babies and pick up trucks and raccoons, they all lack a belief in God, but they're

not atheists.

And if they are atheists, that doesn't say a lot about atheism.

Rather, atheism has positive beliefs, either that God does not exist or that the reasons

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