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 Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

Recently I was invited onto a podcast called When Belief Dies to do a Devil's Advocate

Debate.

So a devil's advocate debate is where you defend a position that you don't normally hold.

It's obviously opposite to a position that you currently hold.

I've seen a few of these over the years between Christians and atheists, where an atheist

will make a case for Christianity and the Christian will make a case for atheism.

And I was asked to come on to When Belief Dies and do a devil's advocate debate.

And so I suggested them.

I said, well, I don't know at least at this time if I want to do a devil's advocate debate

on atheism.

But I said I'd be happy to do one on the issue of abortion.

Now I had a little bit of hesitancy about doing this because I understand the concerns

that people would have.

And I had concerns.

I still have some about doing devil's advocate debates, but I think it has their place.

Because I mean, my ultimate goal is to lead people to the truth, right?

And so it would seem weird for me to go out and publicly defend a lie.

Because what if that leads people away from the truth?

I don't want to do that.

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