Yes, Jordan, I suppose it is

So Jordan B. Peterson has been having a somewhat baffling argument with the Pope of all people on Twitter about the true nature of Christianity, which is… something. The whole thing began with this tweet from old Frank:

Jurr Durr, of course, is so allergic to the very concept of social justice that he sharply corrected the Pope on that point:

…and if you want to see some of the responses to that, George Takei has a bunch.

Of course, if you’ve read 12 Rules for Blah-de-Fucking-Blah at all, then you’ll know that compassion is very far from being Jordan’s strong suit, and I think that’s true on a broad societal level as well as the personal level. If nothing else, Frank’s tweet expresses a noble sentiment (how well the Church has lived up to it is a matter for another time, perhaps); the fact that Jordibles finds the idea so unacceptable says much about him.

The weird thing is that he’s refusing to let the matter go, too; he’s had a few posts up now taking digs at Frank, including with this poll:

Even the poor should set their houses in perfect order first, I suppose. The poll, incidentally, led to the somewhat bizarre pair of tweets I began with; Jordan helpfully clarified that the “goats” thing was a reference to something about sheep and goats in Matthew chapter 25, which I suppose demonstrates that he remembers more about Matthew than me (the percentage of goats grew to 31 in the end, evidently). But I just found those two tweets so silly on the face of it that I couldn’t resist taking them out of context (and goats are a change from lobsters)…

Oh, and the Pope hasn’t replied to any of Jordan’s nonsense. I mean, he never replies to anyone on Twitter, but him not replying to Jordan is somehow funnier than usual. At what point do you suppose he’ll finally realise Frank’s not playing and the whole argument has been completely one-sided?