It's Literally True, Jordan, Terrifying Thought that may It's not Metaphorical

Lately my blog should be titled something like "Notes on Daily Wanderings Through You Tube." Anyway, here's another:

Jordan Peterson is very interesting when he sticks to comments on today's cultural degenerations and the task of psycho0logical maturation of the individual and that sort of thing, but this taking it all into the Bible, rewriting Christianity in this same psychological image as it were, he's committing a sort of murder of the truth. His thoughts become a desert of meaninglessness in this context, they feel like the Abomination of Desolation to me, truly desoating. I remember reading simlar metaphorizings of the Bible back before I was a believer. A lot of high sounding soul death. M

He has to reject the reality, the reality you get from just reading the bible as written. Somewhere he said that to really believe it would be "terrifying." That I can appreciate and in a way I think believers should have something more like that perspective because what we actually believe is truly earthshattering stuff, mindblowing, life transforming. Real life and death, not pscyholgocial metaphroical life and death. That comment reminded me of a review of a book I read years ago, didn't read the book itself, Annhie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, in which she was quoted asa writing that we should wear crash helmets to church. That's the These unbelievers seem to me to feel something of the true level of reality of what we believe that may escape us even the best of us. But instead of joining us as belieevers they treat us as stupid literalists or something like that and prefer their psychologizing vision of Biblical ruth and have the arrogance to think they are right and we wrong.

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No, th3e truth is the reality of a man who really is both God and Man in the flesh, who chose to be born in human form so He could identify with our human condition even though we are sinners and he sinlesss. As sinners we are destined for Hell and in compassion God the Father sent His Son to die in our place so that we don't have to go to Hell. Gosh, how literal minded of us to believe that. GFoolishness to the Greeks, stumbling block to the Jews. He took on our sins, nailed them to the cross with his own body, poured out hisown blood for our forgivenessgave us his own righteousness in exchange for our sinfulness. Loved us even when we were still sinners.

How Bad Is the Current Poltiical Situation. I Agree with Bret Weinstein on This One

This is what I like about Bret Weinstein, and his wife heather although she isn't in this one, his, and their, sanity in assessing today's political scene, the censorship of those who disagree with the current political powers, undermining the American freedoms. The person he's talking to does agree with him that far, but he doesn't see the horrific depths to which those on the left have sunk in recent decades. Weinstein does. the other man, sorry I missed his name, calls himself an optimist and thinks in terms of an old fashioned sort of corruption he thinks is always present in polititcs. Weinstein knows this corruption is something far more pernicious than that. ,br> I'd say the underlying problem is that we are no longer the "moral and religious people" John Adams said could be governed by the Constitution they had given us, that it was inadequate for any other sort of people. I think we are there and therefore there is no solution to these problems unless that mentality somehow miraculously changes. And that would definitely take a miracle, an intervention of god.

But I'm a tiny bit optimistic myself today because of the Supreme Court's decisions on two major cases, yesterday their recuse of the Second Amendment from a "Progressive" attempt to so undermine it it would be as good as nonexistent. Thomas wrote that decision and it sounds like it's abso;lutely brillian. Then today they declared abortion not to be a constituional right and gave it to the states to determine for themselves. Both brilliant and Constitutional decisions. I'm happy for now but the "Progressives" are of course having their usual antiAmerican AntiConstitutional fits.

Anyway, here's Bret and friend:



Oh, I wanted to add that all the dire situations Bret sees looming over our heads are certainly dire if we are depending on fallen humanity to save us from them, but we'll never get out from under them unless we call on the God who is in charge of it all. but this is a fallen world, most people these days are unbelievers. tghere's no hope for the world under their governance.