Matt Speaks to His 6th Favorite Person in the World, Dr. Peter Kreeft 

I was BC class of ‘23, took Dr. Kreeft five times. Now I’m Catholic!

That’s the old school I believe and I love it. So much has changed!!!

I had him three times a week my freshman year at BC for theology and philosophy. It was awesome.

Graduated class of 23’, I took 5 classes with him….wasn’t enough

I really wish ppl would stop saying protestant when what they mean is a particular stripe of protestantism, and oftentimes a very American evangelical protestantism. Formal liturgy, the following of the liturgical calendar with all the changes in vestments, altar cloths etc that accompany it, sacraments from 2 to all 7, Tradition, Creeds, saints, church history etc can all be found to varying degrees within protestantism. (Yes, even Adoration and Benediction.) Tradition is actually one of the pillars of Anglicanism, 'Scripture, Tradition and Reason.' Alongside sacred scripture they have the creeds, fhe writings of the Church Fathers, the 39 articles, BCP...it's bizarre to say that protestants "only" have scripture. Some Presbyterians use the anaphoria of Hypolitus eucharistic prayer in their liturgy which is older than the one currently used in the Roman rite in the Catholic Church. Protestants belief that scripture is the only source that can be relied upon to be inerrant and that it has everything that is sufficient to be saved does not mean it is the only source that can be drawn from. The idea you put forward is the equivalent of Protestants saying "Catholics bow down to statues," or other tired and ignorant misconceptions. It does perhaps reflect the particular kind of protestant background you came from though. Were you from a non denominational evangelical type of church with a "worship team" and communion once a month with grape juice kind of church?

@@littleboots9800 the different Protestant denominations are all different. They have bits and pieces of truth, but lack the fullness of truth.

Matt simply said “Protestant” when speaking about the Catholic’s seeming lack of scripture knowledge. Therefore, I as a former “Protestant” spoke to the accuracy of that statement and why that might be.

Bravo! Extremely well-put!

@@littleboots9800 I can understand Anglicans getting offended being lumped together with low church Baptists or other denominations that are world's apart. Protestant as a label can only really mean "not Catholic", as there aren't many consistent ways to narrow it down further.

Offer up ur sadness to Jesus. He'll accept it and use it to cleanse ur soul. I'm praying for u

Dogs and children are not mutually exclusive. I have both. What you are seeing is that people who reject having children still have the innate desire to have someone ti care for. They replace the children with dogs, but the rejection of children comes first, not the other way around.

@@danacasey8266 I don't disagree, but I've know people simply too old to be bringing in replacement dogs for two or more when one is all they can handle at their level of physicality. And abused dogs should be off limits and yet the pounds sell them off. And driving in today's current reckless and negligent driving it is irresponsible to have them sitting on your lap. I appreciate the old and often with a deceased husband or wife -- dogs are good companions and I've seen that as well. "Dog carriages? When did that begin? But people spending thousands of dollars on pets that would normally died natural deaths is highly questionable. At at my it is simple weird to see so many dogs and so much spent. When I was a boy and man people had the family dog. THAT was normal and the dog came after the family. And there wasn't the need for laws and licenses from the ALMIGHTY STATE. BTW There remain hundreds of thousands of unadopted children. I privilege people and the human space before animals of any kind or place.

Haha yep, living in Potterville, USA

@@kevinkoski7570 I laughed when I saw your reply. That's the irony of that film. My fellow boomers who made that movie popular never seem to literally see my point. Thank you.

As a millennial, I do see many of my childless peers attempting to fill the void of children with pets. Calling them ‘fur babies’. A family member my own age (37) calls his dog his ‘daughter’. Yeah no. I have both children and a dog, and gosh we love our dog, and loved our cat, but we do not feel the same way about pets that we do about children. People are filling the child-shaped void with pets just as they fill the God-shaped void with work, greed, identity politics, made-up mental health issues, social media likes, p*rn, and so much more.

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Lmao I was doing the math. Wife... 4 kids...

Yeah i cringed a little bit.

😂 Matts awkward sometimes but we love him for it ❤

@@SL-es5kbthat’s the truth a little rough around the edges at times ❤

Is there really anything awkward or cringe worthy about discussing our deaths, though? Maybe it shouldn't be something you mention to people you don't know well, but if you know someone is working toward Heaven and desires to be with God, isn't it a little like asking a pregnant woman if she's ready to have that baby? I've been wondering about this since I had my first baby and experienced the awful awful awful pain and then the joy and relief of having done it. I think there's a lot of similarities between death and childbirth, and I'm leaning towards the thought that we could discuss death with a lot more anticipation.

@@jessie341 no I think talking about death is fine. I think saying to someone who is close to death to guess when it will be is cringe.

That would be amazing!

How???? His Pascal's Wager video on PragerU was DISGUSTING, also his argument from desire is just a laughingstock

I left a negative comment, so, my apologies for that. He is a wise and witty and wonderful man on all other topics.

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Fun! Sunday's Homily quoted a paragraph or two.

"Catholic Christianity" Last ch from "handbook of Catholic apologetics" "Jesus shock" "The philosophy of Jesus" (All by kreeft) Look up mortimer Adler's syntopicon and u can find great books written by Catholics. I've read very little by them, but I know these books have helped others. Try someone like John of the cross. ----- Saints are best people to learn the faith from. Go to local pregnancy resource center and u should find solid catholics.

Ted Dekker is delightfully weird and makes me think… but I bet much of his stuff borders on too abstract. This one is one of the least weird of his books.

@@vinciblegaming6817 he also wrote a sequel to it called A Man Called Blessed, if you haven’t heard of it.

Muslim fasting aka don't eat during the day and gorge yourself opulently after sunset. I suddenly don't feel so owned anymore ;)

Dr. Kreeft just barely out of the top five from Matt's wife and four kids lmao

Lol I'm not far enough into the video to get this reference, but I'm very intrigued.

@@stephencotter538 He pronounced the name "Stubb" instead of "Scrubb" ...