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I'm your host, Caving Ants as Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I'm going to talk about five wild anti-Catholic historical myths.

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Five wild anti-Catholic historical myths.

So going, and I'm doing them in roughly chronological order here.

The first one takes us back to the fourth century around the end.

This is after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

It is the claim that Emperor Theodosius banned the Olympic Games.

You'll have critics of Catholicism saying that the Catholic Church is against culture,

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