"The way that there stops being Nazis is for you to know, that the Nazis were you - and for you to decide not to do that again. But the thing you easily won't do, is to understand, that you could do what the camplords did in Auschwitz and even enjoy it"https://youtu.be/-5RCmu-HuTg?t=3848 …
Peterson's idea is not full liberation, because he thinks that this leads to personal and social disintegration, but submission to a cleansed Catholic God that he tries to keep compatible with rationalism and humanism. What do you think are his chances for achieving convergence?
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I came myself to the same conclusion that religion serves an important role for a society to function, you just can't get rid of it without leaving a dangerous vacuum that gets filled by something worse, and we probably can't design something better from scratch to replace it. /1
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On the other hand, at their core most religions are fundamentally incompatible with rationalism and partially with humanism, but I can envision ways for a better co-existence, for example by allowing for a less literal and more metaphorical interpretation of the image of God. /2
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