The Meaning Code Gavin Ashenden on Jordan Peterson's Reaction to #SocialJustice
In this conversation, we are reacting to an article that Gavin wrote in the Catholic Herald about something Jordan Peterson wrote in a tweet response to the Pope, @pontifex on twitter.
Here is the article: https://catholicherald.co.uk/jordan-petersons-twitter-spat-with-pope-francis/
A quote from the article: "What had the Pope written to provoke the world’s most popular psychologist to lay down a Twitter challenge?
'#socialjustice demands that we fight against the causes of poverty: inequality and the lack of labour, land, and lodging; against those who deny social and labour rights; and against the culture that leads to taking away the dignity of others.'
To which Professor Peterson (never short on self-confidence) replied: “There is nothing Christian about #socialjustice. Redemptive salvation is a matter of the individual soul.”
Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to the Queen of England, a university lecturer in psychology, had his own radio show on the BBC and now blogs at Ashenden.org. He converted from the Anglican Church to becoming a Catholic apologist for the faith.
The story of his conversion: https://youtu.be/J-3CxAjbVBM
An earlier conversation on ecumenism: https://youtu.be/F3y7gD_2NTI