There are admittedly legitimate theories that people cannot escape a belief in the supernatural. If you don’t believe in ghosts, for example, but feel fear when alone in a “haunted” room in the dark, is that implicit belief in ghosts? It seems unclear. Not sure it matters though.
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For all practical purposes an atheist is an atheist, at least in so far as beliefs can influence actions. Some feelings are not operating on the level of the conscious though and may be prone to evolved flaws in agency detection that are not cognitively penetrable.
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"It is hard to recall a recent bestseller that’s been so misread, so misunderstood, and so misrepresented."

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Occasionally Peterson gets some things right. On this he is wrong.
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Perfect example of someone wilfully or otherwise misinterpreting what has actually been said because they are focussed on apportioning subjective right or wrong values - we're supposed to be prompted to think more not blindly accept his or others subjectivity
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You are responding to clickbait.
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Peterson is a smart but very intellectually dishonest person. This is not the only example...
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Is 'atheist' defined as 'someone who doesn't believe in god(s)' or 'someone who says he doesn't believe in god(s)'? I understand Peterson as suggesting that you cannot take people's beliefs as what they self-report, but as what drives their actions.
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That's the thing with JBP... His gibberish doesn't have any rational, clear meaning, so everyone assigns their own. He doesn't obey his own admonishments for clarity.
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It is difficult, I agree. Mostly due to the fact that he often speaks about the 'phenomenological world' without clearly stating that he is. For me, at least, it has been worthwile to try and understand him. It has broadened my worldview somewhat.
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Lol! If that is true, I think YOU deserve the credit, not JBP.
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It's only about 1/5 of people who think they're atheists who are wrong (no, I'm serious...see paragraph 5). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/23/ST2008062300818.html …
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(Yes, I know I cheated by borrowing the agnostics, but it was still too funny (to me) to pass up).
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There's a good argument for displacement, i.e., groups uphold certain values that serve the same function as religion. I've known a lot of atheists & I've always been surprised at how religious their arguments against a belief in God sound.I'm agnostic & have no skin in the game.
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To be fair, & without having read the source material, was that a fair quote of Petersen, or a “hot take”?
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The title is clickbait, that is not what he meant
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Is a person who uses deepities to make profound points actually making profound points?
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If what he's saying is true then so is the other side. If you think you are a theist you are right... etc etc. Kind of reduces human beliefs to the zombie level.
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