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Peterson’s analysis of Scripture is through the lens of Jungian Gnostic atheist theology. In “Is Dr. Jordan Peterson Just a Gateway Drug to Christianity or a Highbrow Joel Osteen,” Peter Burfiend unpacks Peterson’s atheist theology:
“Peterson’s lectures build on Jung. He acknowledges human evolution and confronts the Darwinian conundrum: the impulse toward nihilism it necessitates. If we’re just a random assemblage of atoms who hit life’s lottery and attained self-consciousness, what could possibly guide us on a moral level, and what possible meaning to life could there ever be?
Peterson gives a brilliant answer, speaking of “God” and the inspiration of scripture like a televangelist on fire for the Lord. His key is Jung’s psychology peppered with a good dose of neurological data. If “God” emerged in human consciousness over millions of years, and if the scriptures are the result of geniuses—prophets and poets—tapping into archetypical truths of the human psyche, we’d better take such things seriously.
In other words, God and the archetypal truths of scripture are part of the survival gear of the human species, writ into the very neurological apparatus of our beings. Monkeys don’t wrestle with meaning and morality. But we do, because we gained consciousness some time in the relatively recent past. Peterson connects this foundational moment in human evolution with the creation story and the eating of the forbidden fruit, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”
“Tell the Truth...or At Least Don’t Lie.”
(Jordan Peterson featuring Akira the Don and JBPWave)
https://youtu.be/iA8n9JTTM38
(4:38)
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