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who cares

It probably would hurt his fanbase since becoming a bible thumper is in vogue right now that they would start to see him as uncool. I mean his main demographic is basically people like /pol/ and christianity is such a fad to them.

>>10957741
good one

>>10957710
go to bed Jordan

>>10957710
Isn't it obvious?

>>10957757
Eh, I would argue that a good portion of /pol/, especially old /pol/, is some kind of weird Vedic/Germanic pagan crossbreed.

Jordan Peterson is a coprophag

>>10957710
He seems to believe in some sort of archetypal, primordial "meaning" in the universe that I guess you could call "God"

I doubt very much he believes in the God of the Bible though, although retarded biblethumpers won't realise this and just assume he's a conservative Christian

>>10957710
I think he’s a sort of syncretist mystic who believes something like “God is in our innermost selves” or “God is an immanent yet simultaneously transcendent principle permeating the universe” or he doesn’t believe in a personal anthropomorphic God etx

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general Peterson topics belong on >>>/his/ or >>>/sci/

Actually, it's gay to get pussy.

>>10957811
Shhh, let him be.
/pol/ gets to live rent free in the heads and nightmares of these lads.

>>10957710
He's yet another retarded pantheist who claims to believe in God while reserving to himself the right to redefine God as whatever suits him.
With Spinoza it was "muh nature," with Peterson it's "muh archetypes." These fuckers are a diamond dozen

>>10957848
>a diamond dozen

You're joking, right?

It's a facade, but it has nothing to do with pleasing any conservatives or whatever. I highly doubt his fanbase would be affected (all mostly apatheistic youth), nor his clout with conservative media/commentators. It's a personal issue for him. He is intellectually stuck and trying to worm his way out of it via platitudes and equivocations.

>>10957934
>He is intellectually stuck and trying to worm his way out of it via platitudes and equivocations.
He thinks God is a problem he can solve or figure out but knows deep down that he can't and won't concede that fact. He can't wrap his head around faith.

>>10957710
The ambiguity of his beliefs may be in order to please the other political side, or the Atheists within academia, instead of trying to get affection from those with faith. Doing a whole series examining the Bible's stories one by one isn't exactly something an Atheist would probably do just to please conservatives, when just a regular ideological nod in their direction may suffice.

>>10957924
hello newfriend

>>10957710
no, and most christians do not and never have which is why soc was nasty towards the athenians in regards to the olympian gods. most religious use religion as a way of policing thought and showing in-group membership. every single christian ive met online sins, behaves exactly like secular people and is essentially a hedonist. their religion is even predicated on emotionalism and feeling good about existence. pure self-hypnosis and performance for the herd. absolutely pathetic to give in to

>>10957811
Are you honestly implying even one percent of /pol/ is well-read enough to know about the we wuz whities vedic shit?

>>10957710
He does not. He is an evolutionary psychologist who wants to justify Christianity within darwinian reality because Jesus is his hero idol.

>>10957985
I'd wager it's several magnitudes higher than 1%, but yes the majority of them are just larpers. But then you could say the same thing of the Christians on there too, so the point is kind of moot.

>>10957710
He believes in God like any given person might believe in a concept like money.

>>10957998
Got me there

>>10957998
>I'd wager it's several magnitudes higher than 1%,
You know magnitudes are exponential right?

>>10958064
>exponential
logarithmic*

time to kms myself

Seeing as everyone else has given shit answers, I'll give you his actual beliefs. He acknowledges that when he discusses religion, his expertise lies in the psychological significance, or 'metaphorical truth' of religion. When asked more directly whether he believes in God and the afterlife, he typically obfuscates the answer somewhat (e.g. "Well it depends what you mean by believe and it depends what you mean by God"), but when he is pushed he'll say that he can't rule it out, that the stories are possibly literally true as well as metaphorically true, and that he chooses to act as if God exists. I've heard him describe himself as both a Christian and not a Christian. He often criticises atheists who are pure materialists, for their poor understanding of philosophy.

So essentially, he's an agnostic Christian existentialist.

>>10957710
>Or is it just a façade to try and please the conservative side of his base?
I'm conservative and I don't believe in god. I never got that connection.

Reminder that you're not allowed to comment on JP until you've read his 500 page magnum opus.

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t. haven't read

>>10957710
He's a mystic, he's said he doesn't go to church and is always on about the Jungian archetypes and psychological significance of the Bible.

>>10957966
hola newtard