‘Who’s the Enemy Here?’: Jordan Peterson Sets YouTube on Fire With Powerful and Convicting ‘Prayer’ By Billy Hallowell for Faith Wire
Famed author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson is setting YouTube on fire with a prayerful reflection that calls on our ever-divisive culture to confront a key, introspective question: “Who is the enemy here?”
Peterson’s video titled, “A Wing and a Prayer,” opens with him asking God to help him confront unpalatable elements of his human condition.
“God lift me from the intolerable burden of my ignorance, arrogance, willful blindness, bitterness and resentment,” he proclaims, adding an invocation for others as well. “As I pray that others rise above the same faults and temptations.”
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As the prayerful commentary continues, Peterson channels Jesus’ famed Sermon on the Mount and borrows from the Lord’s Prayer among other biblical sentiments.
Peterson’s purpose? To seemingly call both sides to recognize errors in coping with detractors, and the penchant too many have to defame and dismiss ideological opponents.
“Are you concerning yourself with the dust in your enemy’s eyes, instead of attending to the filth that obscures your own sight?” Peterson proclaims. “Do we want accusation, suspicion, discord, derision and hatred? Or the peace and prosperity and happiness that beckons to us at this moment like never before?”
He then poignantly asks, ‘Who’s the enemy here?”
Though it is easy to try and escape seeing oneself as an offending party in Peterson’s words, the author seems to make it clear he believes everyone has fallen prey to the madness.
“I see even the best of men degenerating into the exchange of blows. I see even the best of men identifying the enemy in our neighbors and friends,” he said. “I see even the best of men falling prey to cowardice and self-righteous anger.”
He implored everyone — including himself — to “stop … before it’s too late.”
Watch the powerful video:
As Faithwire previously reported, this isn’t the first time Peterson has discussed faith. In the past, he has said he lives as though God exists.
