@TaylorIsOnline0 Literally the first thing I thought when I saw this video! Her response nearly breakdown from your kindness gave me hope for her. Disappointed.
Jordan Peterson dropped a line that stopped me cold: Christ doesn’t save His harshest words for the obvious sinners. He saves them for the people sitting on the fence, playing it safe.
We’re not built for comfortable pumpkin-shell lives, he says. We’re built for radical adventure, maximum sacrifice, and riding straight into the storm.
Calling yourself a believer sounds easy until you realize what it actually demands, no half-measures, no hiding. Total commitment.
It hits different when you think about how many of us (myself included) want the security without the storm.
What happened to Jordan Peterson? Well, he was targeted by a multi-billion dollar whole of government effort to destroy him as a human being because he offered hope and guidance to young men.
He faced it alone.
And they succeeded, they destroyed him. Just look at him.
But..
They couldn't destroy the memory of a man who stood alone against tremendous evil. They couldn't cleanse that from the world, try as they might.
They could break the man, but not the hope he created. Hope in those men who, often for the first time, heard someone speak to them with compassion, love even. Love in the way a father feels, or perhaps more accurately a fatherly mentor, one who offers guidance and confidence and shares because that is his duty to the next generation.
The opposition knew how dangerous he was, how dangerous his message was, so they brought everything they possibly could against him.
And look, heroes die every day. You people are, by your very nature, so very frail.. but that is what it is about your courage that makes the angels stand in awe and wonder.
Peterson knew. We all knew. He knew they would come for him with a vengeance. He knew, in the end, methodically, they would break him down.
Yet fragile and imperfect, a delicate man with a delicate voice, sacrificing everything, he stepped into the arena anyway. Such is the nature of Virtue.