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, Cathery Answers Apologist, Trent Horn.

And today I'm going to be responding to a recent video from Father Casey Cole on the issue

of imprisoning people.

Now if his video had just focused on pointing out the problems in the modern American prison

system, then I wouldn't have had any problem with it.

I would not have made this response because those problems do exist and people should

respond to them.

But my concern is that Father Casey goes far beyond that and says things that aren't true

and could even undermine the Christian faith.

So let's take a look at what he says.

Father Casey's basic argument is that slavery is always wrong, forcing people to work in

prison is slavery.

Therefore, it is always wrong to force imprisoned or incarcerated people to work.

In this episode, I'm going to show that this is not a teaching of the church.

So you're free to disagree with Father Casey.

And there are good reasons you should disagree with him because as I said earlier, this

kind of reasoning can be used against the faith itself.

But before I do that, I want to make it clear that there was actually a lot in Father

Casey's original video that I do agree with.

Let me go through that now.

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