[BipolarBob]

“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?”.

[txeagle]

While I find him on point on most topics, I also find him condescending, somewhat whiny and with an overriding aura of weakness.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

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.

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[The Louiswu]

JPs words and thoughts work for me. I've read a couple of his books and listened to a fair amount of his vids, for me he is spot on and makes a great deal of sense. I am grateful that God put JP in my path so I could hear his words.

I'd listen to the man read the phone book.

[Lurker]

Sean Ryan just did a lengthy interview with Dr Peterson. It’s worth watching.

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[enumerated]

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.