Jordan Peterson: Church Became "Shallow and Contemptible" After Vatican II
Peterson was referring to Christ's invitation to take up his cross and follow him. He calls this "a hell of an invitation" (a very demanding invitation) but "that's the invitation, and the Church has lost faith in it."
The Church, he said, had wanted to make the Gospel more "relevant" to the world but had obscured its true vocation and put something else above Christ's invitation.
"That's not going to work, not if the original statement was correct," Peterson noted, adding that "obviously the original statement is correct."
The Catholic Church doesn't ask the faithful to take the difficult path: "The gate to paradise is barred by a cherubim who has a sword that burns and turns everyone. This means that "it's hard to get into the club."
Of Francis, Peterson said he was on a climate mission but should be saving souls: "That's how you save the planet, not by worshipping Gaia." Gaia is the pagan name for a personified Mother Earth, a synonym for Pachamama.
Peterson doesn't see what the Church has to do with climate: "The wording is wrong. The priority is wrong. You save the world one person at a time." But the Church "lacks faith in its own mission".
Peterson's wife Tammy will convert to the Church at Easter. She said the rosary helped her get through cancer treatments.
Peterson, who comes from a Protestant background, avoids publicly identifying with any particular religion, but has appeared on social media as a teacher of responsibility, self-discipline and political incorrectness.
In July 2022, he told a homosexual comedian that "gay" marriage had become "part of the structure of marriage itself", defining marriage as "the union of two people".
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