To alter, much less reverse, a culturally held, self-evident assumption is no minor thing, especially when the assumption benefits the assumers. That Christianity—or as Peterson refers to it, “an ethical/religious revelation”—had the power to flip several ancient scripts is no small thing. But—to the point of this book—how? Peterson gives us several clues: The society produced by Christianity was far less barbaric than the pagan—even the Roman—ones it replaced. . . . It objected to infanticide, to prostitution, and to the principle that might means right. It insisted that women were as
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