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.
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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He sees the Christian faith not as an accident, but as deliberate construct to synchronize purposes and build a non-transactionally cooperating society. The epistemological distortion due to faith is a steep price but he thinks it can be resolved, and the alternatives are worse.
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I thought so until I watched his debate with Dillahunty on YouTube and then someone asks at the end during the Q&A whether God would still exist if all people died and he has a really hard time to answer.
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