Being an atheist absolutely does not rule out being gullible & easily misled. This is shown by the number of atheists who take on irrational & unevidenced beliefs on the far-left, far-right, spiritual, postmodern, pseudoscientific & Jungian-archetype-mixed-with-bible-stories. https://twitter.com/scarce_sense/status/985448699084992518 …
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Yes but radical PoMo feminist ideas are destructive in that as JBP would say, “they deconstruct the nature of being.” Why make positive ideas equivalent with horrible ideas? Provable or not. Sorry if I’m missing you.
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I'm not making the ideas equivalent. I'm saying the same epistemology about truth being constructed by narratives is used by pomo and Peterson. I didn't make either of them do that. I just observe that they do.
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Do you think truth can not be expressed in story?
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Truth and falsity can be conveyed in a narrative. It's important to establish which they are if you can. If you can't, don't claim them to be true. Just say they have meaning for you if they do.
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Yes bu I think you’re better off judging ideas by their benefit or destructiveness. Of course some things like “gender differences, clearly false” as well as destructive.
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I also judge them by their evidence & reasoning. Epistemology matters. I might share some of Peterson's values (most I do not) but I do not share his epistemology which is very similar to postmodernists.
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I still think it's a false equivalence. There is evidence that SOME of the Biblical stories happened, only uncertainty on others. Also there is evidence that archetypal principles are valid while things like gender being a social construct is anti-evidence.
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