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

So I took a little bit of a break from my social media fast.

I know, I know, but who of us keeps our our Lenten fast perfectly.

But I think it was for a good reason.

So welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers, aologist and speaker, Trent Horn.

The reason I took my fast from social media.

And now that Lent is over, I will tell you, I'm I'm not going to be on social media very

much.

I will be there, but I want to really roll back the amount of time that I spend there.

Because I saw that it can just turn into a giant time suck.

And my time to use to build up the kingdom of God is just more valuable.

Yours is more valuable.

But there are still elements of social media that are helpful.

One of those is to get ideas and insights from people for episodes.

And here's what I did.

I was thinking about apologetics.

And I had seen online some people getting into threads and discussions where they are

critical of apologetics or apologists.

So I just went out there on my platforms and said, Hey, what's wrong with apologetics?

Like either what's wrong with it?

Or if you think apologetics is great, but it loses its way sometime.

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