Evil

 

Jordan Peterson is a genius and incredibly knowledgeable, but, one of his finest insights is that one does not know God or believe in God, unless one is as morally good as one can be. No matter what deity we worship, or how we profess that we are saved and love Jesus, and surrender our lives to Jesus (more or less, we Christians should so conduct and so profess), God will hold it against us if we are not as ethical as we can be.

 

God loves goodness and the good person and hates evil (but not evildoers) and is upset with the conduct of evildoers. We too are to hate evil and fight it in our generation with our whole hearts and our whole souls.

 

Three caveats:

 

!. We must fight evil out there openly and upfront, but the best way to do that is, concurrently, to be personally as ethical as we can be, personally, and this can be our greatest moral contribution to God and to the race. If 50 million adults in America would self-realize and dedicated themselves and their lives to one of the good deities that they worship, American would be a country sought by all refugees, a land of prosperity, decency, law and order, peace, and happiness.

 

2. We must make altruist-collectivist ethics our minority moral emphasis and move away from ethics in the context of group identity. We must give top billing to egoist-indivudalist ethics as the major moral emphasis, within the framework of individual identity.

 

3 We want to be passionate but not fanatical and intolerant of misidentified, or over-identified groups of sinners. We do not want to take up the sword or have the government torture or imprison sinners, collective or individual, in the name of moral policing. Right is not advanced by human rights violations against evildoers on earth.

 

Our moral mission, is, then to hate evil and love good, and work to expand goodness in our hearts and then in the community.