Life is Very Simple, Actually

Life is Very Simple, Actually
Pints With Aquinas

The episode opens with a confession the speaker clearly shares with his audience: we are confused about many things, embarrassed to be confused, and we bluff our way through conversations with a few rehearsed sound bites, hoping nobody presses us past the second or third question. This posture, he argues, feeds a lie—that life is complicated, that figuring it out is hopeless, and that the only options left are to numb, quit, or run ourselves ragged trying to understand everything we think we should understand.

Against that, he sets a single counter-claim: life is very simple. There is very little to figure out.

The core thesis: love what is good, hate what is evil

The central argument is not a system or a program. It is a moral and spiritual orientation. The speaker reduces the whole of the Christian moral life to two movements: love what is good, hate what is evil. He does not present this as a truism or a platitude. He presents it as a real, actionable posture—one that immediately runs into the obvious objection: what do you do when you have already habituated yourself to do the opposite? His answer is direct: pray. Repent. Keep turning away from distractions. Do not hate yourself for failing. Hope in a good God who is better than you think and who cares for you more than you think.