Earlier this year, Dr. Peterson managed to irritate most of Christendom when he retweeted a quotation from Pope Francis about #SocialJustice, commenting “There is nothing Christian about #SocialJustice. Redemptive salvation is a matter of the individual soul.” Many Christians were troubled by the fact that a public figure who has not made a public confession as a baptized Christian would criticize the teachings of the Pope.

The public outcry from Christian thought leaders everywhere was that Jordan Peterson does not know enough about Christianity to make such a claim. The Catholic doctrines of social justice, after all, came before the postmodern neo-Marxist forms of social justice, and are rooted in the Scriptures.

The arguments from Christian thought leaders were quite similar last year when Dr. Peterson shared a piece he had written entitled “Message to the Christian Churches,”. In it, he called out the ways in which the Christian church has failed to inspire young men. Why should we Christians listen to Jordan Peterson as if he knows something we don’t? Is he not an outsider?