That he tries to be interdisciplinary and strives for conscience is commendable, and I agree with many other ideas he has, especially regarding robust psychology research. But this has been a problem I've had with his ideas that I haven't really seen anyone else address before.
The fundamental innovation of monotheist religion is the ultimate accountability of the individual to a social superorganism above individual, family or tribe. God is not the tribe, but the tribe's organizational principle. This is an adaptation to multi-level selection.
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The Abrahamic religions are designer viruses. They have been purposefully created and optimized as operating systems of their host societies. While their rationality is inferior to antique and modern secularism, they are exceptionally stable.
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We are probably adapted to religion, in part because our ancestors had a habit of genociding other tribes and thus replacing the godless population. But Peterson is probably not correct that religion is the only or even the best tool to sustainably organize a scalable society.
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