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The Psychology of Redemption

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is the State the Final Answer?

The idea that the is perfect, although it's a tremendously flawed idea, cand be pursued so hard by people who are gripping their narrow viewpoints. The old testament sort of sums itself up in the book of job. Everything that could possibly be terrible that happens to any person happens to job. So job is like a final state of unredeemed being. The state's not the answer. Well, so then if being is order and being is chaos, and chaos is intolerable, and the state order is not the answer, what do you have left? That's the question the new testament attempts to solve.

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