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

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Antisapologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And in today's episode, I'll be responding to a recent video put out by Gavin Ortland

on icon veneration, which he says is one big reason that everyone should be Protestant.

I won't be rebutting this video alone, actually.

Joining me for this rebuttal will be Catholic Answers, Senior Apologist Jimmy Aiken.

And here are actually some of Jimmy's initial thoughts on Gavin's recent video.

I knew I would be disappointed by this video just from looking at the thumbnail.

I assume that Gavin is doing a little bit of clickbait here, which is understandable

because everyone has to work with the YouTube algorithm.

But in the thumbnail, Gavin has this angry, weird expression on his face.

And the word bark says, this alone will make you Protestant.

What this means is clarified by the title of the video.

Icon veneration is clearly an accretion exclamation point.

This presents us with a capsule summary of his overall argument.

My Conveneration is an accretion.

Therefore you should be Protestant.

I have to say that this is a bad argument because it's circular.

I mean, what's wrong with accretions?

Who said accretions are something bad?

The answer is that Protestantism says this.

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