Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the

Tomistic Institute and this is Pineser the Quinas. In this episode I'd like to talk about whether Christians can have fun.

Now obviously that's like a little bit silly as far as questions go because

clearly Christians do have fun and many Christians feel no hesitation or

conflict about the fact that they have fun. But I think there are a few people out

there who do feel some hesitation or do feel some conflict and they might think along these lines.

So here's the thing.

Human life is a very serious business.

And yeah, we're called to a very serious task.

And so we should undertake it seriously.

And if we're out here having fun or getting all like stirred up with fun having,

then we're going to be distracted from that goal or dispersed from that goal.

And yeah, we shouldn't indulge in that type of

nonsense. Or if we do, we should feel guilty about it and regret it. So I think

that there's, yeah, there's like a little bit of truth there, but there's a lot of falsity and I think that there's a little bit of truth there but there's a lot of

bit of falsity and I think that that falsity hinges on how we understand human life

and specifically understand what human life is for. So let's talk about that a

little as we appreciate the place of fun in human

flourishing.

Okay, so at the outset I think that we need to assign an appropriate place to seriousness because you know those folks are right

We as human beings are endowed with a great dignity with an immense dignity and we are fixed on a very noble goal, I mean the most noble of goals.

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