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The Counsel of Trent

#821 - The Lesson to Learn from Matt Dillahunty's Rage Quit

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Trent analyzes a recent debate where atheist Matt Dillahunty left the debate after opening statements. Trent discusses the promise and peril of Christians taking a more aggressive approach when engaging modern atheists.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

So when Christians have debated atheists in the past, they tended to be on the defensive.

0:12.0

But now you're seeing more Christians who are taking they tended to be on the defensive.

0:12.6

But now you're seeing more Christians who are taking an assertive approach

0:16.6

and they're attacking atheism directly.

0:19.0

Now, I think this approach does have merit,

0:21.7

but we also need to be careful to not go too far and

0:25.5

turn into the angry atheists we might be engaging.

0:28.8

Welcome to the Council Trump Podcast. I'm your host, Cathayantz's Apologist Trent Horn.

0:33.3

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0:35.8

before I lose all faith in God and humanity

0:38.7

and become an angry atheist myself.

0:41.6

I'm just kidding. I just don't want you to miss out on our content or

0:44.7

the chance to help people know more about the channel and you can also help

0:48.9

support us at Trendhorn Podcast dot com to get all kinds of great bonus content. And by the way when I was saying

0:54.4

angry atheist I put quotation marks because there are many atheists that I enjoy

0:59.5

speaking to who are not angry there we can have really good conversations. And there are some Christians I don't

1:05.6

enjoy speaking to because they can get pretty angry or aggressive or they're just not great for

1:12.0

having a dialogue with.

1:14.0

So what's interesting, sometimes what happens in debates

1:16.2

is I have an atheist who's really outspoken

1:19.1

and a Christian who is a bit more mild

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