promise of utopia is that we will do away with suffering when we adopt and implement the correct way of thinking about politics and society. Holding the two accounts side by side, Peterson judges the Judeo-Christian version to be more true to our experience and knowledge of ourselves. He critiques the Marxist version in terms of both its motivation and its results. Without explicitly saying so, he seems to identify the Judeo-Christian account with the long development of prosperity, the rule of law,