1. Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson debate. They see the West as having group identity around ideas (this is Americanism). The problem is that an idea is not a stable basis for group identity. You can abandon and reinvent it tomorrow. “Today I’m Christian, tomorrow I’m Buddhist..”
7. They say you must appeal to science in the public arena. This leads to scientism, but it is also an admission that, really, they believe science to be truer than their own religious convictions—apparently it speaks to everyone while religion in subjective.
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8. If science can speak to everyone and religion cannot, what, then, is the truer discipline? We must conclude it is science. Peterson and Shapiro are, in effect, scientists in the streets and believers in the sheets.
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