JMJ
April 08, 2018
I am on page 182 on Jordan Peterson’s 12 RULES FOR LIFE. I decided that I would read every word of his 370 page book before I wrote a word of criticism or praise.. Sorry I can’t stand it. I promise truly to myself and to the world that I will finish the book but , like one of his favourite yin and yang symbols nonsense and sense flows in and out of book in stark contrast to each other.
Some of his favourite words are myth, symbolic, millions or billions of years et c et c. But the one sentence that gagged me up to the point I had to grab my aging DELL was “ in the great and fundamental myths of ancient Egypt , the god Horus, often regarded as a precursor to Christ .......
I do not know about Horus but I do know about Christ. Not only that I know Christ.
In the Baltimore Catechism The first question is Who made you?A. God made you. It proceeds Q. Why did God make you? A...to know, love and serve Him and to be happy with Him in Heaven forever.”
Jordon’s problems start with not knowing the first few pages of the Catechism, or of Genesis or of the first pages of the Gospel of John. It’s like he arrived late in class and only got the fancy stuff that makes you sound erudite. He knows the actual words of the Bible very well . He even quotes the Book of Wisdom and Protestants don’t even know that one exists. But he can’t read without surfing. It’s like he says “ if I start really reading this Book and concentrate on It I’ll start really Believing in It. Then I’ll start talking as if Jesus Christ is real. Then my persona as an academic and intellectual will be lost and gone forever. Even my friends and allies will insist that I’ve gone too far.
Peterson knows the importance and significance of Genesis but because he is thoroughly entrenched in the Religion of Evolution he can’t take it straight. Everything to him has to be a myth that evolved through millions of years , that is a compilation of an amorphous committee spread throughout eons of continents, cultures and vertical time zones.
Then poof, Jordon starts making sense. When he’s faced with “ a two year old monster “ (his words) he gets it right. In short if there is a power struggle the adult better win. He even has experienced real cold. I think his home town is in the same latitude as Brabant Lake. Maybe he thinks that reality should be part of the debate on the myth of global warming. He gives us a real, useful and painful picture of a friend who lost his grasp of reality and thus lost his life by marijuana.
He is obsessed with real evil, the evil in us, in the world, in history but he has no coherent explanation and I think he knows it. If Genesis is only a compilation of myths then Genesis has no answers. But Peterson cannot accept that Genesis does have the explanation of evil. Perhaps he would use the old saw “but that is too simplistic.” Why a great many people read and listen to Peterson is because they are simplistic enough to trust their instinct on logic and illogic.
What is wrong with Peterson’s book is what is wrong with evolution which is an unscientific dogma without proof, that answers nothing. Evolution cannot explain evil and good. It can’t even explain why it matters. Evolution can’t explain why people sing and create music. Evolution can’t explain worship and why we need to worship. Evolution can’t explain evolution.
Jesus, Jordan, is Not androgynous . He is a real Man. When St. John says “ In the beginning was the Word”, he is saying that Jesus is the Word and the Creator. He is a real being who really exists, creates , lives. As the Baltimore Catechism states, our job is to know Him. Gay
