Posted on 05/04/2024 6:18:33 AM PDT by Twotone
“why don’t we give this God guy a shot?” Honestly, what do we have to lose? Or, even more honestly, do we have any other options?”.
While I find him on point on most topics, I also find him condescending, somewhat whiny and with an overriding aura of weakness.
Thanks for posting, this and may other things give hope to us that there is a turning back to God. The reaction at many colleges to all of this Hamas stuff.
The Latin mass is very popular at many parishes, where one must arrive early to get a seat.
He was good when he wasn’t famous yet. Wrote a self-help book with common sense advice for young people like “clean your room”.
Then he got “internet madness” and started to argue with leftist internet morons and after that he had a personal life tragedy and to cope fried his brain with drugs and nowadays he is often just a guy with a drug-fried brain.
You get a glimpse of common sense calm advice from time to time and that’s when the old him is talking ... and then you get the nonsense of the new him where he has fits of rage about some New Jersey town’s parking regulations or Sesame Street worm muppet.
That aura of weakness is deceptive. The demagogues of the left have been trying to take him down for the last decade.
While I respect Dr. Peterson and listen to his non-theological podcasts, I wouldn’t seek him out for answers about God.
He is very intelligent, and works hard to be honest in his own approach, but his baseline is evolutionary biology and a Jungian mindset. He almost reminds me of a non-leftist version of the 1960s religious writers who discount or ignore the events in the history in the Bibles as being too important to treat as facts, but looking only for the hidden meaning in the myths. It is also dangerous to try to find a novel approach in such well-trod ground, especially if Christian, as the Christian Faith includes revealed Truth, spoken plainly, and not in Gnostic secrets. Dr. Peterson isn’t a Gnostic, but he comes closer to their approaches than I care for.
On the other hand, his wife’s highly unlikely cure through prayer and her own “faith journey” have led her to the Catholic Church, and praying of the Rosary.
I have listened to Dr. Peterson since about 2016, and he had been a politically middle-of-the-road Canadian (which is left of a m-o-r American in most ways. My wife and in-laws are from the same part of Canada, in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Dr. Peterson has responded extremely well to the attempts to compel speech out of him as an academic, and that has moved him to the right, and he isn’t done.
I greatly appreciate that he is fighting a necessary great fight.
With the exception of Jesus, God didn’t send perfect people to spread the message.
“With the exception of Jesus, God didn’t send perfect people to spread the message.”
Why didn’t he? Sounds like God screwed up.
You ever met a perfect person?
Sean Ryan just did a lengthy interview with Dr Peterson. It’s worth watching.
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Apparently we are born imperfect?
Apparently
Every opinion I ever hear about atheism is from non-atheists - and they are invariably laced with profound condescension and reductionism.
Without getting into the question of who is right and whether or not they can prove it, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that neither the believers or the non-believers have any clue about each other’s true character, nor do either have any business speaking on behalf of the other.
Here, I will tip my hat to the non-believers, for they do a far better job of staying in their lane.
The non-believers I know (and that includes myself) are at peace with not knowing things beyond the reach of science, but know that there is a vast universe of mysteries - they are humbled by the vastness of unknown wonders, and open and eager to learn about them should that ever become possible.
That self-description of one atheist’s state of mind may not 100% apply to every atheist - but I’d venture to say that it is a whole lot closer to the mark than the reductive and condescending descriptions typically offered by religious believers.
If those things are his true personality, then that’s good. There’s an abundance of fake personalities in politics, media, science, and even in pulpits.
Well why didn’t God build us perfect? Or wasn’t he capable of that? He did it with one of his sons, why didn’t he do for all his other sons?
Think of all the misery that would have prevented, not to mention him worrying about whether we think he’s the supreme being or not.
He could have saved us and him a lot of grief, don’t you think?
>> Well why didn’t God build us perfect? Or wasn’t he capable of that? He did it with one of his sons, why didn’t he do for all his other sons? <<
He did build us perfect. Then Adam and Eve ate the apple...
And to answer the usual next question: if God forced us to be good, then we would be mere robots.
Yeah, atheists would never use condescending terms like "sky daddy" and "flying spaghetti monster".
My favorite
Is there any way to have an absolute moral structure apart from religion?’”
Sorry to say many organized religions have spoiled the God experience
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