We Who Wrestle With God, by Jordan Peterson, a Review in Pieces

Various ideas I want to share as I read this latest book

I just finished the first chapter and wanted to share something Peterson wrote about and I have often thought about:

Why is slavery wrong?

Peterson asks this as if he is truly asking his reader if they believe it to be wrong. But not only that. He also asks us ‘why’ it is wrong. I really appreciated this question because I have in the past posited the same question for similar reasons.

If we believe slavery is wrong, then how do we come to that conclusion without assuming something specifically special about the very nature of human beings that requires us to treat each other as if we exist in the manner described in Genesis. How can you justify abolition without assuming that every individual human being is created in the image of God and equality is based on nothing more than humanity?

This revolutionary idea flies in the face of all the facts.

None of us are equal in any factual way yet we have to assume we are equal in some deeper, fundamental way in order to justify the idea that slavery is wrong…