On Jordan Peterson

He's basically looking for religion, without Christ. [Religion] has nothing to do with narrative. It has to do with Christ alone.

Jordan's view of religion is very worldly. Of course, having a set of beliefs about ethics is one aspect of religion. However, people don't need religion to know that. In fact, in many cases, religion can override the rational foundation of ethics. It's my thought, that everyone encounters the Rational Truth of Moral Supposition, and it's one of the conflicts we entertain. Either abandon it, for the social decorum, or embrace it, and suffer persecution and ridicule.

No, we need Religion---Christ in general---to have our sins forgiven. Religion is not about giving a set of moral principles. At least not Christianity. It's about saving us from what we already knew, and giving us a way out of our suffering. Yes, Christ's morals were perfect, and unerring. So were Judaism's. It would create a happy existence. But, we've seen in the past, where people trying to live up to those same ideas have created hell on earth. That is not the basis we judge a religious system, is how well it structures society. Though, objectively, it can structure society very well, it's not the basis. Confucianism and Taoism structured Chinese Society very well;  or Christianity, created the most prosperous civilizations in history.

The point being, the universal value we all know, we have breached. And we need to be saved from that sin. As, we all have sin which we put into the Cosmos, and it creates ripple effects throughout many people's lives. Whether it's a little sin, such as bullying, or a large sin such as rape or incest. The fact remains, that we need to be saved from those sins, as there is NOTHING which can override the damage we've already caused. There is nothing that can reconcile the hurt we've caused people. And we're all guilty of it. That's why we need Christ alone.