I have been observing Dr. Jordan B. Peterson since 2016, when I saw a story about him on CBC
news. In that story, he has been shown shouting during a protest against him on the campus of the university of Toronto where he worked as a tenured professor. What has not been shown, however, was that he came out to talk to the "protestors", but they unplugged his speaker and mike, so that he would not be heard and that is why he was shouting.
He has been portrayed as an unhinged anti LGBTQ personality allied with the alt right white supremacist groups. I didn't know anything at all about him back then, but something just did not sit right with me about the way he was being portrayed by the media, so I did my own research by visiting his You Tube channel to find out who he really is and what is it that he is actually saying.
He had a good foresight to publish all his ideas there in form of videos with his lectures and his concerns with Canadian bill C-16 that would effectively force everyone to use the pronouns they chose for themselves even those made up ones. It so happened that Dr. Peterson as a Clinical Psychologist and Social Scientist with a very sound scientific publication record, was also interested in how the most deadly dictatorships of the 20th century developed and how they could compel ordinary people to participate in committing crimes against humanity.
What he discovered was that the governments in the countries where they developed such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, gradually restricted freedom of speech, intimidated, and later imprisoned and killed all who would dare to speak out against their ideology or actions. So, while Dr. Peterson as a classical liberal was opposed to any form of discrimination and prejudice, including against people from LGBTQ communities, he saw government forcing people by law to use words they didn't want to use as a dangerous precedent that could be abused in the future and warned the government and the public against it for this reason.
In the detailed analysis of this bill and other similar laws in Canada, he warned that the vague wording could lead to very lax interpretations of these laws and cause Canadians to lose their jobs and have their reputations destroyed simply because someone has misinterpreted something they have said or not said, or be persecuted for refusing to do or say something that is against their conscience ( freedom of conscience is one of the rights protected by the Canadian Charter of rights and freedoms) and that it would stifle any open dialog in our society around important issues creating a very unhealthy climate.
In the years since, Dr. Peterson became a voice of reason and hope in an intensifying culture war that we are now witnessing. His warnings came true as we began to see serious academics, actors, and politicians "cancelled" from social media platforms, suspended, and even fired from their jobs for so much as criticizing any ideas that have become politically correct. We are seeing social media and traditional media companies trying to silence anyone who does not agree with their ideology.
In one of his then very popular Biblical series lectures where he was analyzing Bible stories from psychological perspective, Dr. Peterson shared a vivid dream he had the meaning of which he said he could not understand. In this dream, he saw himself in the middle of ancient Roman theatre like arena and Satan there ready to fight with him. He was naturally terrified and asked God why would He let Satan to fight him like that and God answered : "Because I knew you would win."
I could immediately understand the dream perfectly, especially after all the recent events. Dr. Peterson has been drawn on his spiritual journey more into the Bible and Christianity and its core teachings about humanity being created in the image of God and the individual freedoms and dignity that come from that. For this he has drawn to himself Satan's attention and all the personal attacks from the media and politicians controlled by the spirit of antichrist have been the fight depicted in the dream.
We know from the Bible that Satan is planning to create a global dictatorship that will one day be controlled by him through the Beast. This is the same spirit that was animating the blood lust of the Roman Empire when it devolved into dictatorship. Western civilization developed out of the ashes of the Roman Empire mixed with strong Christian influence, so the spirit of Christ and that of the Antichrist had been struggling for pre-eminence within it for ages.
Following WWII, the emphasis on individual freedoms and the dignity of each person in the West, allowed for extended period of peace and prosperity such as the world has never seen before. With this freedom also came freedom for Christians to preach the gospel to every nation on earth and to help lift poorer nations out of poverty, so for this reason Satan aims at destroying the Western civilization by destroying these values to create his global dominance, but it looks like God is raising some unexpected people such as Jordan Peterson to delay Satan's plans. This is very good news. While as Christians we need to get stronger and better prepared for persecution that is inevitably coming down the road, it looks like we might be given some extra time. Let's pray for Dr. Peterson and others like him who seek the Truth to be filly guided into it and thank God for their courage and commitment to our fundamental God given rights.
