To his credit, Peterson’s encouragement of Westerners to live as if transcendent meaning exists, and his declaration that such transcendence finds its greatest expression in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is a powerful antidote to the chaos of secular modernity. To live as if transcendent truths really exist is to provide a tangible existential buttress against our culture’s slide into confusion, despair, and nihilism. Indeed, as Christians we can affirm that living as if God exists can result in