On Page 152 of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS, Jordan Peterson writes this about serial killer Carl Panzram: "His destructiveness was aimed in some fundamental manner at God Himself. There is no other way of phrasing it. Panzram raped, murdered and burned to express his outrage at Being. He acted as if someone was responsible. . . . Cain is jealous, of course, of his successful brother. But he destroys Abel primarily to spite God. This is the truest version of what happens when people take their vengeance to the ultimate extreme."
My response: Jordan exposes how our suffering naturally or from the malevolence of others can lead to us doing evil, hurting, destroying, even killing in revenge against the world and its Creator for our undeserved suffering.
But there are others that choose to do good, to love and create rather than seeking revenge against God and Being, and Jordan talks of them. Which way will you jump?
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