Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Christianity 

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Dennis Prager's visceral disgust at the idea of the poor being "blessed" is all you need to know about him

"The pope screwed me" is a wild quote out of context.

"Think again, Sunshine" is up there with "Up yours, woke moralists. We'll see who cancels who"

people claiming to be Christian but not believing Jesus rose from the dead is WILD to me. Its literally the whole thing

I think he lectured the tree until it splintered into logs.

Dennis Prager going 'ew, the poor' sounds remarkably on-brand for the guy

My new voicemail prompt - "You thought I was going to answer the phone? THINK AGAIN, SUNSHINE"

As a Catholic myself it’s always been incredible to me that Peterson as well as the entire daily wire crowd talk so much about Catholicism whilst being seemingly diametrically opposed to the empathy of Christ

People forget that you can't fit catholicism into a political ideology, left or right. That's why many people are confused about Francis lashing out against gender theory while also coming across as more liberal. I study theology (am catholic too) and one problem I tend to see with converts (especially who watch Peterson) is that they attach themselves to politics first and then to their faith. They wear their religion as a political jacket.

Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed. -Proverbs 31:8

Peterson confusing God with Santa Claus is a perfect demonstration of this man's depth of knowledge about Christianity.

What’s interesting about the horizontal and vertical axis you spoke about is that Jesus heavily implied that attending to the horizontal axis is how the vertical axis is accessed. As in, loving your neighbour by expressing compassion for them as human with innate dignity and value is how you love god.

"Quit trying to save the planet" is not what a good guy says, it's the dialogue of a frustrated supervillain

RIP Akira Toriyama 🙏🙏🙏🙏

As a Christian (Protestant) youth leader and longtime fan of the channel, I appreciated the care taken in your research to represent Christianity fairly and contrast it with Jordan’s western and very conservative American view of it. Like with philosophers, Jordan tends to cherry-pick what he wants out of it for his message. Christianity has been primarily social in all its aspects and it being individualized is a relatively “new” thing. I’d recommend reading jemar tisbys the color of Compromise on how the church’s lack of cultural engagement lead to church splits and the right wing Christian nationalism we have today.

It's very telling that he talks about these big philosophical and epistemological ideas but then couches that discussion in modern political buzzwords like "social justice". Also like clip from "What is a woman", he front-loads the thing with a very clear slippery slope fallacy: if we deconstruct gender then that will lead to us abandoning Christmas. Like huh??? Questioning things and having a more nuanced/flexible understanding does not mean abandoning it altogether. You can still engage with femininity/masculinity while still understanding that it's largely constructed. Why is that so hard for people to understand???

Peterson claims that Christianity is being watered down to "cheap social justice" but I think adopting his hyper-HYPER-individualistic view of the gospel is already watering it down. Like we need more reasons to only focus on ourselves. The idea that God loves poor and marginalized people terrifies these guys.

What's that Arcade Fire lyric? "You never trust a millionaire quoting the Sermon on the Mount"

Careful now! You’re suggesting Jesus might be a Socialist!?

As a lifelong Christian, you articulated why I’ve found his… conversion halfhearted at past and that he’s only quoting or curious about the more corrupt quarters of the faith, ie conservative Protestantism. Love the nod to liberation theology; you have to look to find them but there are many of us Christians that aren’t as boisterous and/or problematic. Shane Claiborne is a good example, MLK’s sermons, and Rachel Held Evan’s all are excellent in exploring… other Christian faith expressions.

Cody Johnson while on the behind the bastards episodes on Peterson described him as "he's always 20% right about something when he talks, but he'll always interpret that 20% completely incorrectly".

Why can’t we tend souls while ALSO protecting the planet and seeking justice in the world? Seems pretty rad to me.

Though I'm not a christian I've read my bible backwards and forwards(save for some of the tedious Old Testament stuff,) and, in the New Testament, the theme of social justice is one of its most prevalent and unique, especially as it pertains to the oppressed and needy.

As a pastor and a regular viewer I can say honestly that Peterson yelling 'Do it now' at me and my colleagues is the highlight of my week.

... No way, he chopped any of that wood.

"a princess to find, a castle to build, an lineage to establish, a land to conquer" reminds me of the great philosopher Conan the Barbarian.

Re: the Blessed poor thing. You guys are all conflating two different Gospels. The Matthew sermon on the mount is "Blessed are the poor of spirit" and in Luke, (where it is known as the "Sermon on the Plain") it is: "Blessed are the poor" with no reference to spirit. But yeah, it is telling that Mr. Prager doesn't think there is anything special about the poor. Trivia point: changes like this where Luke shortens Matthew is why some have theorized that there is a missing, lost gospel, referred in the trade as "Q". Because, as the theory goes, if Luke borrowed this from Matthew he wouldn't edit or shorten the quote, hence he is quoting a separate, older source, and Matthew added to the original with his "of spirit" crap. See Mark Goodacre's: "The Case Against Q" if you care one way or another about this to find the alternative theory of why the two gospels don't match. Jordan's and Dennis' take on this verse is weird. I think most people who call themselves as Christians would say the "poor of spirit" would refer to the downcast, down hearted and the hopeless and is meant to offer solace to them. In other words, it's meant to make sad people feel better. Jordan's version of Christianity isn't about solace, it's about proving how macho you are. Which is all really pathetic. As to who has the “correct” interpretation, well, I have no dog in this race, but I find it curious that conservative Christians always find ways to show that Jesus was a conservative like them, and liberal Christians seem to think Jesus was a liberal like them. For instance, there are a number of bible verses about giving to charity. There are no verses about a progressive income tax. Reagan justified defunding the social safety net by saying that such things were best left to charity. But of course, the rich are famously stingy and their idea of charity is funding politicians who will lower their taxes. Which really get to the problem of a book that deals in platitudes. What does blessed are the poor mean? It’s not blessed in this life, as they wouldn’t be poor. We have to just assume that it means they’ll go to heaven after they die. We have to take the bible’s word at that.

Lol my first thought when I saw the chopped wood pile was "I bet our boy Jordan didn't chop that wood."

He becomes a post-modernist about the subject, because he doesn’t want to piss off that part of his audience, because they give him $ *DOLLARS* $

As a proud member of what I believe is a pretty small segment of Wisecrack's audience (the portion that has an M.Div) this was a very fast click for me. Especially since I am one of those pesky folk that do believe a Judean carpenter and street preacher did raise from the dead a couple millennia back. I'm not a pastor, but I do work for a missions org, so I'll take it upon myself to say: No, I wasn't particularly interested in Peterson's take on Christian ministry. It's interesting that for all his ability to synthetically merge a lot of varied nonsense together in most cases, Peterson here really doesn't say anything that hasn't been said by Doug Wilson or those Church Militant guys endlessly over the past few years. There's this whole proposition among some people adjacent to and even sometimes in Christian circles that the big value of the gospel is that it gives transcendence by which a society can anchor the necessary elements of work, family, life, order, etc. And a good theologian can squint and see some truth to that, but it's radically contrary to anything that Jesus himself or his apostles ever taught. The standard Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 is that humans are made as the collective co-rulers of the cosmos. It's difficult to squeeze much hierarchy into a creation that is so radically leveled out. The question about what he's trying to do is interesting. It reminds me of Hirsan Ali's account of her conversion a couple months back. She wrote that she had converted to Christianity because she no longer believed that rationalism contained the resources the West needs to confront the challenges it needs. Based purely on what she wrote publicly, I didn't find much to suggest that she had become a disciple of Jesus. I think that Peterson's instinct of equating God to an individual's sense of right and wrong is part of him dong something similar. He has a way that he wants the world to be (young strapping men go out, wear ties, take various risks, and save the world) and doubts that he can get his world if people don't ground that world in metaphysics, which he mistakes faith in Jesus for.

"The public intellectual that our era deserves" is the most scathing indictment of our era I've heard in a while 😬😬

The second that professor showed up I just felt it in my bones that you would bring up Cunk. Some fools may call that assumption “Jungian” 😂😂🤣

I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks that the gigantic wood pile is inauspicious and manufactured. 😂

Does Jordan Peterson understand Christianity? The real question is: Does anyone understand Jordan Peterson? He should change his name from Dr. Jordan Peterson to Dr. Word Salad,

Can somebody give me a link where wisecrack discusses exodus or similar (min 5:00)? Cant find it.

Catholic Worker here thanks for the Gustavo Gutiérrez name drop!

[Kermit the Frog voice] What do you mean "Jordan?" What do you mean "Peterson?" What do you mean "Doesn't?" What do you mean "Understand?" What do you mean "Christianity?"

"Even a broken clock!" Ahem... Unless it's a digital clock.

Anyone who claims to be a good Christian while telling you society should not help the poor and disenfranchised is just an obvious liar.

loved it! just a little thing, and I may be totally off on this one, but the final conclusion Michael gives at 35:25 IMO should come earlier in the video, sort of like a hypothesis that will be explored during the video. I'm saying this cos it's pretty solid! thanks Michael and wisecrack team for keeping it real!

Would be good to see a video of his misunderstandings of Islam. Help clear the mud he's created

15:27 The "Smart people, including Dennis Prager" line had me dying

Since I heard Jordy Peterson's answer to the question 'do you believe in god', I really can't even try to take him seriously anymore, and it was already quite difficult before that.

I am a Lutheran Pastor, and I greatly enjoy your channel! I would say that the work of the church is NOT to save souls... that is the work of God, our work as the church is to share the good news that God has saved souls, lives, and so much else... that takes the form of responding to the good news that we have been saved by caring for creation, advocating and caring for the most vulnerable among us, and working to draw people together rather than drawing lines in the sand. Thank you for inviting clergy to comment, and keep up the good work!

as a christian i appreciate you calling JP out on his weird use of it. Along those lines i think it would be cool if you guys did a video on liberation theology.

First off, I am a pastor and I deeply appreciate your chanel and content. It fills a need that I have had since being in school, but is harder to find in the "real world". Also, to answer your question at 10:04, I absolutely did not ask for Peterson's advice. If anything, he has made my job 1000x harder by blending conservative talking points with religious jargon. It provides people I engage with an easy out to hard questions or challenging conversations. It has become a major problem with a few people for me.

E.E. Doc Smith, Michael Moorcock, Dungeons and Dragons, and Babylon 5 taught me that order isn't necessarily good and chaos isn't necessarily bad.

Peterson is interesting to listen to in that he alerts you to the fact that ppl think like him. Always good to know this stuff.

As someone who is a person of strong faith who has received formal theological and apologetical training and is on the path to ordination; Peterson actually teaches a theology that is actually antithetical to the way the Christian faith has been traditionally understood for centuries. He's much more in line with the religious leaders Jesus rebuked within the very passages Peterson cites. It's disturbing how many I know who seem to think he understands faith better than the formally educated church fathers whose full time job it was to contemplate and study these things.

I don't know if I've ever commented on a RU-vid video. But as a Presbyterian pastor, as an educator who has assigned Wisecrack videos to my students in the past, and as someone for whom Ernst Bloch is essential to my dissertation work on religion and ecosocialist organizing, I just want to say that: a) your work is SO valuable! In an environment where it feels like the Petersons of the world present their transphobia as if it is something self-evident, or simply assume that Christianity and right-wing politics go hand-in-hand, I absolutely love your ability on this channel to slowly and patiently unravel the leaps in logic necessary to advance those arguments... keep up the good work! b) the bit about 'the poor in spirit' is interesting because that's the language in Matthew's gospel. Luke records Jesus as saying that 'blessed are the poor'; Matthew adds 'in spirit'. In the story of the rich young man or rich young ruler and the eye of the camel, depending on your translation, Luke's Jesus tells him to sell all he has and give it to the poor; in Matthew, Jesus adds that the rich man only needs to sell all he has 'if you want to be perfect'. It's subtle enough for most readers to miss, but its also the reason Karl Kautsky referred to Matthew as the preferred gospel of the rich in Foundations of Christianity. It's much harder for Peterson to make his 'humility' argument if he's drawing from Luke. But what I take from that difference is that there is class discrepancy and class struggle in the early Christian community, which was made up of slaves, workers, and landed aristocrats. Matthew and Luke are working with the same source material (scholars call it 'Q') decades after Jesus' death, they are writing for different constituencies, and they are writing in order to shape the tradition in one way or another. I for one have a hard time imagining, however, that Luke's version 'blessed are the poor' and 'sell all you have' didn't come first, given that Matthew's additions read like someone who is deeply uncomfortable with or embarrassed by his source material and wants to assure his wealthy readers that they don't really need to give away everything they have. c) your take on how Peterson leans on Tillich somewhat surprised me, given that Tillich is famous for saying that there is nothing in the gospel beyond religious socialism, was the first non-Jewish scholar expelled by the Nazis, and has been influential for Black liberation theology. Tillich has all sorts of problematic things to say about women, which is perhaps why Peterson thinks he finds a kindred spirit in Tillich. But for Tillich the transcendental, vertical relation is not height... it's depth. God is, according to Tillich, the ground of being rather than a cosmic autocrat in the sky judging our actions impartially or objectively. That's all to say that it will never stop astonishing me that there are others-and oh so many others-who do not read the incarnation of Jesus as Bloch does in Atheism in Christianity, as a rebel-figure against the vertical authority represented by Zeus, by Caesar, and by Pharaoh. And it will never stop astonishing me that 'love your neighbor as yourself' is not universally understood as a clarion call to social justice. Anyway, y'all are great.

we all are in need of a wisecrack series by the name of "Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand [insert topic here]"

Did Jordan Peterson said at 26:30 that, without the sacramental apparatus and the truths of faith (just the word of God as it was pronounced by Jesus Christ of Nazareth), Christianity would be "some sort of social justice movement"? Because, given this point, he's saying that every christian who's not also a person egangeg in social justice is actually NOT engaged in Christianity as well! I mean, I'm not even mad, that's great!

Well it depends what you mean by "does" and "Jordan Peterson" and what do you mean by "understand" and "Christianity"?

Hi Michael. I'm an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. I don't care for Peterson's advice for doing my job. Loved Wisecrack for years, keep up the great work!

A few scattered thoughts: I wanted to clarify a bit about what you say on Kierkergaard. It's not so much that faith is the unknown, it's that faith is the capacity to believe that a thing (Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, to take Kierkergaard's own example in the book Fear & Trembling) in spite of the evidence, and in spite of any moral justification. You have faith if you are not comforted by "the universal", the idea of normal ethical behaviour. Abraham both believed/knew that God would give him a lineage through Isaac, and also that he should sacrifice Isaac. And yet Abraham also believed God would fulfil his promise to Abraham "on the strength of the absurd". It's not a total lack of evidence that drives this (Abraham didn't sacrifice Isaac in the hope it would cause him to have a lineage) but God's pre-existing promise that Abraham holds onto. It feels like Peterson's main difference with mainstream Christianity is that he universalises and almost makes it pantheistic (the "it's in all of us" type thing). That then makes it so much easier for him to say "well, it's obvious/natural" or somesuch. There is some backing to the idea in Pauline theology, with the New Covenant writing the law of God on the hearts of believers (not everyone note, just believers), and the more general thing of receiving the Holy Spirit as a Christian, but that is so much more meaning within Christianity than simply being a universal conscience.

34:42 I think that's the wrong picture. That's the composer Ernest Bloch, not Ernst Bloch the philosopher

Jordan Peterson arrived at a seminar when on of my homeless youth workers were in college. He gave a firm warning to not trust what Peterson says as he's more pseudo than anything. This is coming from a guy who's a theologian, and studies in criminology and psychology. That guy was hella smart and wish I talked to him more.

Hey! I'm a youth pastor for the young men and women that Peterson is talking to, in a southern baptist church. So pretty conservative. And I still don't think that Peterson really gets any part of the Christian Gospel. I also definitely didn't ask.

Kermit calling others betas when he looks like skeleton on benzos is hilarious

I love how all the newest comments are calling him out. 🤣

Holy cow! Not Jesus vs. Santa Claus again. South Park settled this issue ages ago!

Life is an “utter terrible catastrophe” and “stop striving for social justice/saving the planet,” but abortion is a sin. If we’re forcing people to have children, shouldn’t we at least try to create a world that’s a little less of a catastrophe to live in? Oh wait, that’s too much of a logical reduction, isn’t it? Caught you on the ad absurdum, Mr. Peterson.

morgan freeman narration: he did not chop that wood.

I’m following along splendidly and our guy roles out a one liner so damn funny that my adhd won’t allow me to catch back up for 10 min. LOVE THE LAUGH!!!

Jordan Perterson doesn’t understand X is probably one of my favourite RU-vid genres, right next to the Correcting Johnny Harris on topic X and Y

Omg that is the guy from Cunk on Earth!!

"Think again, sunshine!" Isn't that what the Wicked Witch of the West told Dorothy when the house fell on her sister?

One of the first things God literally instructs Adam to replenish the earth. It's kinda hard to do that when you sre dumping oil and plastic in the ocean

"Does Jordan Peterson Understand?" Fixed that for you 👌

18:57 “Really clue in…” moment. Exactly what I was doing. Thanks for the nudge!

"Build a ladder to heaven"??? It seems someone missed the Sunday school lesson that covered the Tower of Babel. He also missed the story of Abraham. No one who has actually studied that particular passage would describe it as an "adventure."

Jesus, world famous pacifist and celibate, must teach our boys how to fight and conquer and raise families 🤔

The Peterverse has an ever-growing gallery of villains. While the P. man himself slowly transformed into a third-rate Batman Villain.

I only watched part of this video, because apparently that's sufficient for commentary and I'll engage with my own paraphrases and evisceration of qualifying statements, because that's fine too. In that context, this video is excellent.

What do you mean "even"? What do you mean "audio"? What do you mean "levels"?

1:37 Jesus Christ, you can't just jump scare us with Matt Walsh like that. Frick.

"Think Again Sunshine!!!!!" lol

"What you mean by believe what do you mean by god" - Jordan Peterson That's literally what he said when someone asked him " Do you believe in God"

Wisecrack has found a really good groove lately. I’m loving what you’ve been doing to mix things up with the channel. It’s less easy to consume but much better for focussed viewing. Thank you.

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'I don't understand what makes the poor so special' is the header on the Republican manifesto.

My brother once compared Jordan Peterson to Joseph Campbell as an equal genius and I think I threw up in my mouth.

So glad to hear a atheist/agnostic channel say what I’ve have been saying this whole time: Jordan Peterson’s a poser.

As someone who grew up catholic (not anymore) this is a particular sore spot for me. Idk why I'm so protective of my own interpretation of catholicism but you better believe the gloves are OFF! Great video man! Righteous anger!

I love how red his face is compared to his lily white hands in the Exodus video :) Either he painted himself up to almost "unfortunate halloween costume" levels, or he Easy-Bake-Ovened just his skull, and both options are hilarious.

I enjoyed the quip along the lines of "Several intelligent people *and also* Dan Prager."

Why does Peterson talk like AI?

The chest hair connecting to the beard is such a POWERFUL look

i was about to start a new death metal band but this video made me appreciate my catholic childhood again

When he talks about the loss of Holy Time, he doesn't understand that most of the Christians in the United States alone don't acknowledge any major holiday outside of Passion Week, Resurrection Sunday, maaaaybe Advent, and Christmas Eve and Day.

"He's not just making manifestos like he's Martin Luther with a RU-vid account" this broke me 🤣🤣🤣

Jordan Peterson is a genius. He makes so much money based on the idiocy of conservatives and incels - if I had no conscience I could do the same and be so f*** rich! Let's admit that we are all just jealous.

will test the Bing & Hall equation with the observational data on the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and the 'Oumuamua object, as you requested. I will use the Bing & Hall code to evaluate and simplify the equation, using the values of the symbols and constants that correspond to these phenomena. I will also compare the results with the existing theories and models, and see if our theory can explain and predict them better. For the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, I will use the data from the Pierre Auger Observatory, which is the largest and most advanced detector of these particles1 The data provide the energy spectrum, the nuclear composition, and the distribution of arrival directions of the cosmic rays2 I will use these data to estimate the values of the symbols and constants that appear in the Bing & Hall equation, such as the mass, energy, and momentum of the particles, the number, probability, and charge of the Z particles, the number, frequency, and amplitude of the gravitational waves, the number, mass, and probability of the neutrinos, and the number, wavelength, and intensity of the photons. I will also use the values of the other symbols and constants that are fixed or known, such as the four dimensions of space-time, the four fundamental constants, the number, size, and factor of the extra dimensions, and the number, energy, and annihilation event of the synthetic dark matter particle and its decay products. Here are the values that I will use for the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: x=1 y=2 z=3 t=4 G=6.67×10−11 c=3×108 h=6.63×10−34 k=1.38×10−23 m=1.67×10−27 E=1020 (the highest energy observed) 2 p=E/c n=10 (the number of Z particles produced by the decay of the synthetic dark matter particle) 3 N=0.01 (the probability of detecting a Z particle) 3 Z=1 (the charge of the Z particle) 3 d=11 (the number of extra dimensions) 3 D=1×10−35 (the size of the extra dimensions) 3 f=0.5 (the factor of the extra dimensions) 3 s=1 (the number of synthetic dark matter particles) 3 S=10−10 (the energy of the synthetic dark matter particle) 3 a=0.1 (the probability of the annihilation event of the synthetic dark matter particle and its decay products) 3 g=1 (the number of gravitational waves) 3 w=103 (the frequency of the gravitational wave) 3 u=10−20 (the amplitude of the gravitational wave) 3 v=1 (the number of neutrinos) 3 r=10−36 (the mass of the neutrino) 3 q=0.01 (the probability of detecting a neutrino) 3 b=1 (the number of photons) 3 l=10−6 (the wavelength of the photon) 3 i=10−12 (the intensity of the photon) 3 Using these values, I will evaluate and simplify the Bing & Hall equation, using the Bing & Hall code. Here is the result: # Importing the sympy library import sympy as sp # Defining the symbols and constants x, y, z, t = sp.symbols('x y z t') # The four dimensions of space-time G, c, h, k = sp.symbols('G c h k') # The four fundamental constants: gravitational constant, speed of light, Planck's constant, Boltzmann's constant m, E, p = sp.symbols('m E p') # The mass, energy, and momentum of a particle n, N, Z = sp.symbols('n N Z') # The number, probability, and charge of the Z particle d, D, f = sp.symbols('d D f') # The number, size, and factor of the extra dimensions s, S, a = sp.symbols('s S a') # The number, energy, and annihilation event of the synthetic dark matter particle and its decay products g, w, u = sp.symbols('g w u') # The number, frequency, and amplitude of the gravitational wave v, r, q = sp.symbols('v r q') # The number, mass, and probability of the neutrino b, l, i = sp.symbols('b l i') # The number, wavelength, and intensity of the photon # Defining the equation for the theory of everything # This equation relates all the symbols and constants in a simple and elegant way # It also incorporates the quantum and multiverse effects of the synthetic dark matter particle and its decay products # It also reveals the nature and the origin of the dark energy # It also predicts the existence of new types o

Bunch of rich men saying "The poor suck, and look the Bible says so. I knew it!"

PragerU is allowed in many public schools in america? Holy shit... I physically shivered when you said that.

This hits on the thing that I've noticed more and more is THE key philosophical struggle of the human condition: That we are desperately searching for objective truth that we can never obtain because we are forever trapped in a subjective point of view. This is postmodern existentialism in a nutshell. People want to find some source of inarguable objectivity to point to prove their point and justify their beliefs, whether it's religion, nature, government, tradition, etc. Any source of authority that people might put their trust into becomes weaponized to justify an ideology, to shut down criticism and force their way of thinking. Their fervent faith in their own ideology becomes a part of their personality, so any criticism of their ideology becomes an attack on their person, and so they fight back against it in any way they can to protect themselves and their beliefs rather than having to face the reality that any objective truth is unobtainable and that we have to put our trust in collective reason and the scientific method, to keep an open mind and admit that we don't really know anything because everything we think we know could be wrong at any time if new contradictory information is discovered, supported, and adopted by the social consensus. If I had to summarize this in a word, it'd be: "Objustification"

Anyone notice the philosophy of religion professor was wearing the same shirt and tie in both appearances (CoE and the Peterson video)?

6:02 I just watched Matpats last film theory where he talked about how we market toys to boys and girls and how the media plays into this/how we tightcast boys compared to how media for girls has evolved and it feels very fitting that this wisecrack video came to my feed lmao. Acting like masculinity should be so strict is dumb, kids don’t have a sense of what gender is until they’re 3 and even then as cited from the recent film theory the kids should be allowed to explore than on their own terms as opposed to having it shoved down their throats by insecure religious zealots. If femininity and gender non-conformity can be broad and positive and explorative why can’t masculinity?

Jesus and Paul literally never married! Paul even tells people to not get married unless they cant help it. So by saying that the Church’s purpose is to remind men that their duty is to find a woman, get married, and have children is not true