Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

A place where everything is good and still getting better.

That's the identification with the spirit of revelation that descends, that replicates the conditions that obtain at the beginning of time and space itself.

That's the central core message of the first four sentences of the biblical corpus.

Thank you very much.

So, you know, when you came out on stage, you said that you were going to talk about 12 rules, eh?

But you talked about this, even if you didn't notice it, because that whole story that you told was wrestling with God.

Yep.

Right?

So you got that exactly right, just so you know it.

No problem.

Yeah.

Well, Satan, obviously.

And I actually mean that, and I can explain why to some degree.

Cain abides by the narrative of victim and victimizer, right?

And Cain is resentful and bitter and arrogant and murderous and deicidal and genocidal.

And the reason for that is that he construes himself as an eternal victim of innocence and everyone else, God included, as a victimizer.

And that story leads to hell.

So that's the theological level of explanation.

More prosaically, it's a consequence of idiocy and moral degeneration.

So the idiocy part is the willingness of ignorant people to swallow hyper-simplified, idolatrous rationalizations.