Jordan Peterson’s Take on the Bible Is as Bad as You’d Think

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Unfortunately, going through We Who Wrestle With God, it’s hard to imagine anyone but his most devout fans finding much in the way of inspiration. It’s by now clear that Peterson’s evolutionary trajectory has been toward becoming another hacky right-wing pundit in the mold of Ben Shapiro and James Lindsay.

Jordan Peterson’s Take on the Bible Is as Bad as You’d Think

In his latest book, right-wing provocateur Jordan Peterson looks to extract existential and political lessons from the Old Testament. Far from probing deep truths, it’s a shallow, self-serving exercise in culture war.

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The problem is that, for a book that’s supposed to be about wrestling with God, Peterson doesn’t actually want to fight that hard. It turns out that, upon reflection, the Almighty’s views are pretty straightforwardly those of the average North American conservative. God doesn’t much like “Marxists,” trans people, environmentalists, atheists, materialists, ChatGPT wokeness, or “Tinker Bell, the porn fairy.”