The big insight for Jordan Peterson was the value of obedience, and the moral need for the sacrifice of autonomy. The reason for Jordan Peterson’s bitternis is that he has not fully made the sacrifice. It is still a sacrifice to him.
At least he is not a spiritual actor like Spira or Wallace. His bumbling is a genuine journey.
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.. he sounds and feels like his primary drive is rationalizing the Christian faith as the way out of suffering. But I understand why he is so popular though.
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He is not a theist, though. His God is not a supernatural being, it is the identification with a single highest purpose outside of the individual, which is a healthy thing to have if you are a cooperative species.
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Well, he keeps pulling the Christian faith into his argumenta ALL the time. And he puts God everywhere: God is reality, God is an abstraction of all ideals, speaking your truth like Jesus is the only way out of suffering. I liked him at first but ...
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