
God is Beauty (Christopher West) | Ep. 334
Pints With Aquinas
The Perversion of the Life Instinct
i was really moved, matt, by your your the way that touched you so deeply. You something feel at a viteral level this human longing to be loved. And we think that aging and death is the enemy of this love. We think to be loved we have to be young and beautiful. All of that. To loop back to that movie and then my marriage. I once heard it said very well that the perversion of the life instinct begets a death instinct. Life instinct is the sexual instinct. It's meant to lead to new life. But when we shut that down and we're just after the pleasure, it leads to death, leads to a culture of death. This
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