Things Will Get Bad. Expect it. w/ Dr. Peter Kreeft

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Dr. Kreeft shares his thoughts on the state of marriage in the world today, and what that might mean for society's future.
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[@PintsWithAquinas]

What's your BEST parenting advice? Go!

[@daenithriuszanathos9306]

Allow yourself to be sanctified through your kids. It will be painful. Have fun.

[@marthamary9273]

There is not « one talk « about sex and marriage and the craziness out there. It s an ongoing conversation. Keep in mind our goal : to know, love and serve God.

[@drjanitor3747]

If some one has a differing position to their own they should de platform and ignore those people. Even if such people have strong arguments backed by church teaching, that they can’t refute.

[@christinamarin3063]

This too shall pass. Just love them through it.

[@davidryan5819]

The two need to be on the same sheet of music and don't let the kids play one parent against the other. Marriage takes 3.. be God centered.. you'll come out ok!

[@alsolark3029]

This society is collapsing. As a divorced Catholic, I was encouraged by non-Catholics to start dating and be promiscuous. They thought that would heal the wounds of betrayal. And in the beginning the thought of celibacy was devastating. But I know the truth. I had been asking God to help me be a saint. I don’t know how this sorrow will get me there, but I trust in Him.

[@theden3162]

Daily Mass, spend time with the Lord, and stay occupied with Holy habits, pray and do spiritual reading, let Jesus heal the wounds, go to the sacraments as often as you can

[@TheRealDealDominic]

@@theden3162 excellent advice. God will provide more then what you could ask for. Stay patient and remain faithful

[@alsolark3029]

@@theden3162 Thank you. I feel so much closer to Jesus already.

[@theden3162]

@@alsolark3029 Remember that even in marriage your first Love is JESUS, no one will be married in heaven but we will all be united with God, so keep seeking His Holy face, what you need is alot of grace, so the mass, regular confession and receiving the eucharist and praying the rosary, will give you what u need . God is love

[@alessandrovolta8354]

You are a Great blessing tò the world

[@donald4054]

Dr. Kreeft is partially responsible for bring me and my family back into the faith. His thoughts and inspirations also contributed to my son's journey into the priesthood. God bless Him and you for presenting him to your audience.

[@gregdavidson6067]

Bless you for coming home ❤

[@SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

I have tried to live my life like Christ is returning today but only in the last decade or so. Im old and encourage all young people DON'T WAIT LIKE I DID, DO IT NOW,, turn to God now, once you incorporate confession, Mass and Rosary/Adoration into your life it rejuvenates you to withstand the storm outside. The Saints/Scripture/Our Lady have all prophesied the chastisement.

[@Antonia_D]

Thank you, i reality appreciate this. BTW did St. Charbel work a miracle in your life?

[@SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

@@Antonia_D Yes. Jesus sent him to cure my sister of cancer. We never heard of him before he appeared to her in hospital and placed one hand on her forehead. She said she felt the cancer leave her body. Long story short, she was healed and searched Internet for hours until she saw his distinctive face as per my profile pic. Prayers of strangers. Our family has made it our mission to spread knowledge of this great Saint.

[@garybrown2039]

@@SaintCharbelMiracleworker The Lord be with you.

[@IONov990]

The rosary is intimidating. I can easily start daydreaming, feeling like I am wasting time, or I start worrying about all my to dos

[@Mike-Migliaccio]

Prayer is time with God and it’s all about our will to pray. You chose to pray and be with God and can offer those distractions up to him. One of the beautiful ways I’ve seen it out is this. When you are baptized the Holy Spirit came to reside in you. Even now He is within you heart. In love He constantly cries out “Abba Father” within us in union with the Son. Prayer is simply when we join in, either by our words in vocal prayers like the rosary, or by a silent resting in His presence. So really, prayer isn’t something we do, it’s allowing God to act by our own consenting actions. Hope this may help you on your journey. Peace and blessings.

[@kristenstudebaker814]

Divorce is so hard on kids, and parents who put them through it will never understand, unless they have gone through it themselves.

[@AndiSligh]

Absolutely true. It never ends. I’m 52 and my parents divorced when I was four. They were cordial to each other and gave me the best “divorced parents” scenario possible. Both remarried wonderful people who cared for me. But they were still divorced, so I floated between two families and was not fully part of either, and that is still true today.

[@MikePasqqsaPekiM]

@@AndiSligh I’m so sorry. I’ve heard of this from others, and it must be very, very tough. I’m clinging to that promise from Scripture that in heaven God will wipe every tear from our eyes. We have our Heavenly Father and the Mother of our Lord to comfort us when our biological families fail us.

[@banquo80s99]

Always a pleasure listening to Dr. Kreeft...One of the Church's treasures on apologetics!!! May God keep him healthy

[@nickmedley4749]

Our Lord to St. Faustina: "You will prepare the world for My final coming. Speak to the world about My mercy… It is a sign for the end times. After it will come the Day of Justice."

[@AronBagel]

What a beautiful way to describe marriage. I see why you love this man so much, Matt. God bless him.

[@BenBrossMusic]

"We are hobbits, and we are facing orcs." - what a perfect way to put it!

[@themonsterunderyourbed9408]

Sam took care of business with that frying pan.

[@RodrigoMera]

That's how I feel most of the time.

[@christophersnedeker]

I think this may encourage a too one sided view of our ideological enemies.

[@RodrigoMera]

@@christophersnedeker Well then think about Hobbits vs Gollums.

[@tayzk5929]

Diversity is a codeword for antiwhite

[@jimjustjim976]

Really liked that analogy " We are hobbits fighting orcs"

[@christophersnedeker]

I think this may encourage a too one sided view of our ideological enemies.

[@jackieo8693]

We should be glad, in a way, when we see things getting bad Because that means the Triumph is getting closer. Let's all make the five first Saturdays 🙏

[@millersatthefarm8]

The extreme example is my example. My pain is more than you would believe.

[@samuellee2107]

May God give you strength and victory

[@mmvr2680]

I hear you! Praying 🙏🏼

[@JP2GiannaT]

I'm so very sorry.

[@sheilasmyth5874]

You’re in my prayers Adam

[@chrisppraefecti373]

This is truly mature advice instead of some of the strange and goofy takes on marriage that I have seen on this show. No hopium copium, but rather real hope.

[@melspati]

🤣🤣

[@josie6497]

Boy that was a bit depressing 😏. I can appreciate the truth in it, but the beauty is each individual life has the capacity to live within the context of tremendous Hope. Essentially it doesn’t matter that the world is falling apart. The world doesn’t save us. The harder they make it, the greater the battle, the more magnificent the Hope. He is our everything. He’s all that matters and He longs for each member of our families. That will never lessen or diminish. Eyes on Christ.

[@adam12732]

As a Zoomer(Gen Z), I and those who believe in God will do our very best to take back this country.

[@croatiangambler8059]

Ah come on bro don’t call us zoomers that’s gay haha

[@jackieo8693]

Let's all make the five first Saturdays 🙏 as requested by Our Lady at Fatima!

[@MarkW126]

Thank you for this. But guard your identity.

[@dudutsulugulugan2911]

It will be very dark and bleak before it gets better. But the outcome is already decided. God is in full control. Our duty is to stand firm no matter what.

[@margokupelian344]

We cannot do that, God can through our prayers, lots of prayers. If only people knew how powerful prayer is! People are not praying enough to counter the evil forces.

[@rps.heaven]

There's a priest who always says to those who are preparing themselves to receive the matrimony: "you must know we are in the end of the times, so, live properly as this time claims [in order to save your soul]."

[@julianchase95]

A beautiful man. Learned, sensitive, humble, kind, blessed

[@francismcglynn4169]

We were cast out of a garden. We have too fight to get back in but first we have to die, to self, to the world and so be conformed to Chirst in his death.

[@ardyjeen6144]

What a beautiful man, this Dr. Kreeft; thank you for bringing him into the light for us to see, especially for us that didn’t know of him. Pray up and may God bless us all.

[@nixtermixter]

Needed to hear that! Thank you!

[@jessicasmith9599]

Great clip. Great commentary

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

Thank you for posting this - a preview of the best episode in a long time. Dr. Kreeft is so rich with wisdom and insights, five minutes of listening to him is worth an hour of many other speakers' time.

[@tonycrump1983]

Yes! Loved all of this Peteris just great to listen to. More please

[@MrBluemanworld]

Wow, "you're on your way out..." Well put.

[@bellanegrin3915]

Always love listening and learning from Dr. Kreeft. Much wisdom, reason, and faith.

[@dynamic9016]

Thanks much for this video.

[@lilianfernandes1198]

Thank you Dr Kreeft amazing priceless piece of advice. God bless both you gentlemen 🙏🙏🙏

[@poutine102]

Thank you.

[@katkat2340]

Fabulous insightful humble man.

[@tylerfoss3346]

God bless Peter Kreeft! Bravo, sir! BRAVO!!! Kudos to Pints with Aquinas for giving us the fuel of the Faith. Thanks be to God!

[@Kevinohanlons]

Role your sleeves up and pray the Rosary, that's our weapon.

[@jesusgirl4936]

Have faith! Pray for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!🙏🏼

[@elizabeth.annrose]

Such words of wisdom from the good Doctor!

[@AJKPenguin]

There is always collapse before great creation. But why have a collapse when we can provide needed creative restoration? : ) Go and dust off, go and strengthen the walls and foundation. Rise and shine, clean, polish with great oblation.

[@rev.blakeevans3827]

Excellent

[@derekrodrigues9414]

"it's easy for u you're on your way out" beautifully said 😂

[@lgc2247]

This gentleman is truly full of wisdom

[@GR65330]

My wife and I are friends of a Catholic couple that have 16 children of which 11 are still living at home. There is a lot of love in that family.

[@robertfischer1041]

He stated he didn’t think our society would last more than a couple generations. I don’t think it can survive that long at its current rate of lawlessness and sexual anarchy.

[@stephaniehill2652]

I just watched the Lord of the Rings for the first time and just loved the hobbits loved each other. This was a Beautiful talk ❤

[@ZTAudio]

I am quite vocal in my criticisms of Catholic theology. However, if the time comes to close ranks … count me with the Catholics.

[@MattBurrill]

That time is now my man.

[@c.Ichthys]

What criticisms do you have? God bless

[@sheilasmyth5874]

SMART MOVE AND THE TIME IS NOW

[@p.doetsch6209]

We will then each bite our tongues for the better of the other.

[@anilomd]

"Fistbump"

[@garybrown2039]

4:39 Funny thing is with the way Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, you'd see a lot of subtle but spiritual things happening in the background. Especially when it came to Bilbo spairing Smeagol and Gandalf (who is technically an Angel btw) commenting on it despite not knowing all the details. Even as we are doing these things in the physical world , what is in and is expressed by our hearts will determine the fate of so many.

[@lumpichu]

Gandalf not not simply an Angel. Tolkien's characters aren't usually so simple allegories. Just one example, he's also one of the prominent Christ figures especially by his death and resurrection as Gandalf the White and the conversion of Theoden. There are no complete angels in LOTR, no complete Christs, no complete Marys etc. but it's very well mixed (also with non-Catholic influences). Maybe it's a bit similar to the Old Testament's prefigurations. It's the big difference from Narnia.

[@lumpichu]

Btw, I don't have much to back it up and it's not probably even Tolkien's intention, but I see some similarities to Mechizedek in Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions. It's never told in the Bible "what" he is. He definitely isn't any "standard" angel, certainly not just a human, but she saw him as an angel and doing and preparing so many necessary things on Earth in the background.

[@grandlotus1]

Peter Kreeft is my favorite!

[@christopherconey732]

'...it's easy for you, you're on your way out...' PLEASE !!!!! Obviously intended as a joke but I felt quite uncomfortable when you said it and I am 10,000 miles from the USA.

[@everetunknown5890]

The Lord tells us in Matthew 24 that the one who endures to the end will be saved. But that kind of phrasing makes it sound like few will be saved. The Apostle John tells us in his revelation that those who come out of the Great Tribulation blessed and pure will be "more than any man can count." Be encouraged by this--we must stand together.

[@calendaryouthministry1847]

Get Good Sleep, Pray, Know and fulfill your duties. This gives glory to God, focus to your day, and the energy needed to thrive.

[@dalelerette206]

Pope Innocent III and his predecessors believed that the Albigensian heresy was dangerous to Christendom because it threatened its moral conscience. While the heresies prior to the twelfth century had all been almost entirely doctrinal, the Albigensian Heresy was novel in that it was also a moral heresy. Albigensian Heresy was reminiscent of the Manichean Heresy, a strange dualism where it saw the universe as a struggle between a good god and an evil god. If I can bring this discussion down to a more biological level, I think of the butterfly. There are some who saw a butterfly struggling to escape from its cocoon. And in an effort to help them, they prematurely took the butterfly out. But then the butterfly died because it required the struggle to to grow. Some efforts to 'help' actually 'kill'. Charlie Brown used the best cuss word since he was prone to say, "Good Greif". There's nothing really bad about saying random accidents can be good. Just DON’T 'cause accidents' on purpose in a weird effort to cause good. As Romans 3:8 says, "Their condemnation is deserved.” Some people even slander us by claiming that we say, “The more we sin, the better it is!” Those who say such things deserve to be condemned. I think one of most global crisis in philosophy today comes from STRANGE PHILOSOPHIES are who are conflating the idea of "ALLOWING struggles to bring growth" with "CAUSING struggles to bring growth." "ALLOWING struggles to bring growth" Is NOT the same as... "CAUSING struggles to bring growth."

[@marybethmiranda3037]

I love Peter Kreeft. I’d love to shake his hand someday.

[@laurenclyde]

He’s good natured, we’ll-informed 🕊

[@drewmcmahon2629]

In a world devoid of wisdom... Peter seems to have all of it.

[@R.C.425]

Just live Dr Kreeft.

[@grandoldpartisan8170]

No matter what happens, I'll meet my Maker never having voted Democrat.

[@grandoldpartisan8170]

@Blepe Life is a matter of choices. I choose less evil, not more.

[@Seminarian]

Hey... this guy wrote my textbook!

[@JudeMichaelPeterson]

Where can I watch full episodes?

[@davidryan5819]

Wow...what can I say? I need 10 pints with Aquinas!!!!! Maybe throw in a stogie or two!! ;-)

[@Napoleonheir1805]

God didnt see you to a garden, but to a battlefield. Well said Dr Kreeft, well said.

[@Cobe1976]

On a serious note, we are already seeing the symptoms of what Peter mentions: civil conflict, disillusionment, a return to barbarism…

[@christophersnedeker]

4:40 I think this may encourage a too one sided view of our ideological enemies.

[@Chordus_Gaius]

Things will get bad, before they get better.

[@suzanh7777]

“Expect it. God sends you into a battlefield, he doesn’t send you into a garden.” The Lamb wins.

[@lrfolkins6692]

Movie: sounds like THE MISSION w:Robert De Niro

[@rylewx]

“It’s easy for you since you’re on your way out, but what about these young ones?” 4:00 Damn this interviewer is one cold mfkr

[@peterfitzsimmons]

I found it is best done one day at the time is a then pray, pray & pray. I also note that God has no grandchildren, He only has children. Lastly, we are all flawed, so practice, practice & practice. In the end, all will be well!!! Peter.

[@markwurtz8759]

We are Hobbits facing Orcs!

[@michaelmartinx714]

Tom Brady’s divorcing after 13 years. Why?!

[@joannathatcares]

Pray for them. Nobody prays for them.

[@Mjl449]

He chose his sport over his family.

[@sheilasmyth5874]

Both of them lost their Catholic Faith -such a bedrock for marriage and parenthood Sociological study showed that when National divorce rate was 50%, the rate among Catholic Couples who went to Church was 10%

[@lucypollard-gott510]

"The Lamb wins! The Hobbit wins!" I'll always remember that!

[@brendamyc3057]

Fix the culture help people see the truth.

[@cigarbuttmutt6023]

the final battle between Our Lady and Satan will be over the family. It's all happening right in front our eyes.

[@jeannedrenison]

We are Hobbits and we are facing Orks! Yes, exactly! But the Lamb wins!

[@dr6278]

Does not exactly make a twenty year old excited for life LOL

[@michaelamclarnon9270]

You have to work so hard in marriage But JESUS CHRIST and OUR BLESSED MOTHER Helped myself and my Husband to get through lots of hard times Through PRAYERS 🙏❤️🙏 30 Years soon THANK YOU JESUS AND MARY 🙏❤️🙏 WE TRUST IN YOU 💯🙏❤️

[@guygeorgesvoet4177]

We are not even anymore in the more problematic but until recently, still somewhat liveable "garden" of history, this meaning "in a continuation of sorts of some overall sense of things", give or take. No common sense left, all around is ideology and its sheer will power, but, mind you, without the generosity of heart Nietzsche preached his hoped-for advent of the Over-man (Übermensch) with. In the end we will need all the extra dimensions of courage, hope and strenght the only true supernatural can give acces to, just to save a modicum of former natural truths as remaining common among humans,... except, maybe, if God in his infinite providential mercy, grants us all the really almost inconceivable grace of the Great Warning. We should all be praying for this wonder (Pope J-P II lived by the promise of in his veneration for Saint Faustina), and be in this surely led by an inevitably and obviously somewhat anxious Pope; but Pope Bergoglio, very unlike the joyous but ware and somewhat weary lucidity of old age Dr. Kreeft displays, seems enthousiaticaly (hell-)bound on massively modernizing the Church in a continuous ongoing synodality-process. Process-theology was never any good as a fundamental theology-base-ground, but if it is becoming the "modern cosmological thinking" much needed to finally steer the Church by (conceived as process of continuous renewal), then yes, we ought all to be enthousiastically following the shepherd, i guess. But I also venture to wonder if he is busy guiding and protecting the flock as the signs of the times give due, or is he postmodernly rebuilding, canceling-wise, the barn as one worldy whirlwind more than there are already plenty of....? "One more cup of coffee for the road, before we go, to the valley below" (Bob Dylan)

[@bernardoohigginsvevo2974]

I understand his pessimism, but divorce rates have fallen sharply since the 90s, and they only continue to decrease. Today, I know only two families that have divorced parents who are under 60 years old. The 50% of marriages end in divorce statistic is rather dated now.

[@ahuman9394]

That might be because less of the people who are inclined to get a divorce are even bothering to get married these days.

[@sitka49]

@@ahuman9394 More people co-habitat - that's why its a dropping statistic, how do you observer analyze data on the un- documentable couples ? Divorce is public knowledge from a legal aspect - has a written record.

[@ZHg-ix7ig]

Dr Kreft is a gentleman, as well as a devout Christian. Aquinas, you lack sensitivity and delicacy at times

[@AK-nw7tr]

Few more generations...oi. Tipping points of law abiding - approx 25-50% build society. Shaw didn't expect all to have middle class morality. Poor can't afford it. Rich think above the law.... So few saved seems about right. Don't see life on earth as a fantasy battle but purpose to redemptive suffering. God's directing destinies, where/when a soul born and when illumined to desire God. All powerful. Blessed be God Who blesses the years.

[@teresariggins7584]

I am a faithful Catholic and have a son who is mutilating his body claiming he is gender fluid, the greatest pain I have ever felt in my life, that he would so disregard the wisdom and love of His creator. My son wants nothing to do with me since I cannot deny reality and embrace him as a woman, but God has given me the grace to forgive what he has done, continue to love him and pray for him daily, and desire nothing else but his salvation, even if I never live to see it. He is Gods child first, God’s love for him will be greater and more perfect than mine can ever be. I willingly suffer pain of cancer and several surgeries for his salvation and thank God for giving me these opportunities to do so. And I am forever grateful for the gift of this precious child.

[@akimalvita8991]

Do not despair, there is still hope. Most Early Christians Were Universalists. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWiVgpeKqsyXhbM

[@maygio77]

MATT, you’re account has been hacked. On the post where you show Chris Stefanick’s picture on the news, there are replies coming from you saying to communicate with your trusted friend and manager Richard for a profitable investment bla bla.

[@keltar4071]

Bad? I think you mean worse because its already bad.

[@eddlzilla]

Sorry, I would prefer to be a Dwarf instead of a Hobbit.

[@MisterCCL]

I love the way he talks about marriage here, but I strongly disagree with the idea that society is just going to collapse. Conservatives in literally every time period have sworn that society was ending, and yet here we are

[@elperinasoswa6772]

Praise be to God. Has it not been the grace of God through conservitism, the world will surely ended.

[@kzizzles8329]

I don't think that they were necessarily wrong to say that society was ending but it isn't necessarily as drastic as was originally claimed. Rather than collapsing, society has been slowly erroding or disintegrating like how iron is eaten away at by rust if not properly protected from the world.

[@quitgoogle2534]

Well there sure are signs of End Times... and also the messages of St. Faustina and Fatima.

[@delsydebothom3544]

Generally speaking, they were correct. It is just the arc of collapse tends to progress more slowly than they expected. And, of course, people don't just stop when things collapse; they rebuild.

[@csongorarpad4670]

Society has been through quite a few upheavals and in those periods, unimaginable suffering was experienced and human life was lost.

[@nathanieldrain907]

He looks nowhere near 85 years old.

[@MrKravmagadude]

In England, kid means baby goat. Just saying. We have children, not farmyard animals.

[@msj5885]

Such silly pendantry. I've lived in England all my (very long),life. Everyone I've ever known calls children kids. Just saying.

[@sheilasmyth5874]

Please lighten up!

[@chissstardestroyer]

I have to disagree with him; things will get bad, but the USA will not fall, nor sunder at all; we had that, and we completely prevented any further sunderings.

[@maurac44]

Let our faith be in God, not nation

[@chissstardestroyer]

@@maurac44 Actually, we must be extremely Nationalistic, not loyal to any god at all, but loyal to our countries, and out for our own neighbors' best interests.

[@maurac44]

@@chissstardestroyer no thanks. Nations come and go, but God is eternal

[@chissstardestroyer]

@@maurac44 Nations come and go, yes, but all kings are completely unreliable; and that absolutely includes God in the category of "unreliable" *at best*.

[@AluminiumT6]

@@chissstardestroyer It's impious degenerates like you who are completely unreliable.

[@BenGowar]

Doomers bro... Doomers. Maybe check out some data-based descriptions of "society." Try some Steven Pinker. Or just operate based on your feelings of dismay.

[@aclark903]

Why Pinker?

[@BenGowar]

​@@aclark903, as it's sometimes said, "Numbers don't lie." I would recommend his Ted Talk: "Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers." Pinker is purely secular when it comes to analyzing the data.

[@delsydebothom3544]

I don't think the argument is that society as such is going to collapse in a definitive way. What you are seeing in the argument is an observation that Western Civilization in particular appears to have aquired characteristics also seen in previous civilizations which have collapsed. This is taking things from a social, economic, and ecological point of view. What is harder to guess at is the timing. Things have tended to take much longer to happen than doomsayers expect. Regardless, when our society collapses, there will be others to take its place. At least, that is what has always happened before.

[@albertogomeziii8507]

Which video from steven pinker do you recommend and are you Catholic?

[@csongorarpad4670]

Do you think more souls or less are going to heaven in this day and age, compared to other times in history? This age is filled with wondrous technology and society for the materialist, but it is not something that fulfills the hunger and thirst that we have for God. I am convinced that, in this day and age, more souls are being lost to eternal damnation than before and that is the condition on which one ought to judge living standards.

[@Cobe1976]

Thanks for uploading! I decided after watching this video to put down the meat cleaver and not mutilate my sexual organs this morning!

[@JP2GiannaT]

Well buddy, whatever helps.

[@sliglusamelius8578]

That’s a good thing I’d say.