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One man I like to listen to on the Internet is Dr. Jordan Peterson. Though not a Christian (I don’t believe), he is open to Christian teaching, and a practicing clinical Psychologist. Peterson made this telling statement:

“When people read the history of Nazi Germany, they always think they’re Schindler, they always think they’re the person who would have saved Anne Frank … They never read history as a perpetrator. They think, ‘I wouldn’t have done that’. Did you watch people during the Pandemic? In Canada, 30% of my neighbors were thrilled that they had the opportunity to inform on the people around them. Thrilled! They would have worn those … masks for the rest of their life if the payoff would have been they could feel morally superior and inform. … People have a very dark side.”

The human heart, unrestrained by the God Who made us, is a horrible thing. Jesus knows this. When He preached His Sermon on the Mount Jesus said:

Matthew 5:27-28 (KJV) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart…. Continue reading →