Dr. Peter Kreeft, a philosophy teacher at Boston College, was on the “Pints with Aquinas” podcast when host Matt Fradd asked if he had any advice for people considering marriage.
His advice: if a person can imagine their potential spouse after the bloom of youth has left them, after the body has broken down and is no longer physically attractive, and still find that person beautiful, they should marry them.
“The last view I had of my wife in the nursing home about an hour after she died, I fell in love with her again. Here is a wasted, emaciated, wrinkled, suffering body… it’s as beautiful as a crucifix.” Kreeft said.
He continued to say that the body will not last but the soul will. So, if a person is not in love with the soul, don’t get married.
Ben Shapiro says on his “Daily Wire” podcast that's the key to existing in a broken world with, at times, excruciating pain.
“The world is an incredible, beautiful place, created for us by a loving God, but it's also a place of heartbreak and tragedy. What Dr. Kreeft is saying there is that it's the same place,” Shapiro says.
The Left, he continues, misses this point. Socialism is a heartless system that considers people to be cogs in a machine, and the only good is what's good for the so-called collective.
“A civilization that treats human beings with this sort of disposable mentality is a civilization that loses its moorings, utterly. It is a culture of convenience, and a culture of convenience — when it comes to other human beings — is a culture of death,” Shapiro says.
Shapiro, who is an Orthodox Jew, says that in God's economy, every soul has eternal value and is made in the image of God.
“That's the stuff that life is made of. It's the stuff that makes the adventure so wonderful. It's finding the soul in another human being and recognizing that you have inherent value as a human being,” Shapiro says.
