Peterson has had a wild ride and has mostly managed when so many have been run through like a pig on a spit. This comment was not one of his best by any means and it goes against one of this several good rules. So, he wasn’t thinking. We all do that once in a while. Say something dumb before thinking about what comes next.
This whole thread makes me so much less proud of Free Republic. Knee jerk ignorance. We can do better.
In other news, pride in Free Republic need not be dependent on your assessment. Of which I am grateful.
Peterson is thoughtful, rational, and intellectual. He is principled but not out of a conviction of innate morality, ie, God Consciousness. He does not speak ex cathedra.
His wisdom is hard won through intellectual rigor. Often this exercise begins by casting about and examining hypothesis. This is good philosophical process but is foreign to believing Christians who typically claim certain knowledge about morality.
One stupid statement among 1000 brilliant ones and it’s time to throw him under the bus?
He’s given guidance to a lot of lost young men and pretty much all of them are headed to conservatism now. These young men were lost because they went to public school that taught them all kinds of untruths that they just couldn’t reconcile.