Qual A Religio De Jordan Peterson?
Peterson, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology, has sparked heated debate ever since his 2016 rise to fame for opposing a Canadian bill that defined refusing to use a person’s preferred pronouns as “gender-based harassment,” and he hasn’t shied away from fraught questions since.
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Franciscan Father Dave Pivonka, who hosted Peterson for a lecture and conversation at Franciscan University in April 2022, said Peterson resonates with the young men on Franciscan’s campus because “he has done a beautiful job of calling out being a man” by asking, “What does it mean to be a man of courage and integrity and accountability and standing up for what’s right?”
Although isn’t this a rather modernist affectation? Almost all religions make publically proclaiming belief part of the condition of entry to the religion, not least as a condition to become a member of the religious community and enjoy the mutual benefits thereof. Baptism and confirmation are this, no?
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In this, they often fall in with a certain brand of millennial faithful found on the loose internet forum Weird Catholic Twitter or similar theistic subgroups. These groups envision their religious identity as something consciously transgressive: a counter-cultural reaction to an increasingly secular world. To reject the (perceived) domination of “secular, liberal, feminist” values — as do both Catholic traditionalists and lobster-toting Petersonians — is to be, well, a little bit punk-rock.
His outspokenness on contested issues like identity politics, innate differences between men and women, and the need for order in life and society has garnered a significant following — nearly 7 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 4 million Twitter followers — and also polarizing reactions from across the cultural landscape.
I think Wittgenstein best describes the nature of my conversion. In his Philosophical Investigations he has a little illustration (below) of what is known as a duck-rabbit.
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As somone who did a bit of maths and physics I have faith in the concept of the square root of minus numbers. I also have faith in God. Understanding who God is something else entirely. Like the nature of the human brain which Oxford neuroscientists say is too complex for humans too understand, so is life, the universe and everything. What I do find difficult is that there is often an assumption that I am a creationist who abhors science.
You are assuming that the God thing can/would overwhelm our human psyche to get over a clear message etc. The God thing might be doing this all the time if we would get over our dominant ego trips and listen – read a ‘course in miracles’ for some fascinatingly possible ‘revelations ‘.
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THE author of the well-known book 12 Rules for Life (2018), Dr Jordan B. Peterson, who is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, wrestled publicly last month with his beliefs about Christianity, after pondering them during prolonged illness.
“I have seen those who have come back to the Church, those who begin to answer questions that they might not otherwise have, except for coming across him,” noted Tyler Ferry, a Catholic husband and businessman.
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Professor Peterson’s latest book, Beyond Order: 12 more rules for life, was published this month by Allen Lane. His book 12 Rules for Life: An antidote to chaos (Books, 9 November 2018) has sold approximately five million copies.
Other Catholics, on Twitter and elsewhere, have expressed gratitude for Peterson’s work, noting that his reflections on Scripture or the importance of personal responsibility had played a big part in their own return or conversion to Catholicism.
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But hang on, an observer might say. Surely the lines have changed. After all, you now believe in God, so there must be an additional element to the picture. But it doesn’t work like that. Thomas Aquinas observed that if you decided to embark upon a crazy impossible project of listing all the things that existed in the world — shoes, cars, clouds, stars, atoms, etc — then God wouldn’t be on the list because God is not a created object, He is the creator itself. Which is remarkably close to saying that God does not exist. However, existence is not the right sort of thing to say about God. To talk of His existence is to relegate God to just one more thing about the universe – big and powerful, admittedly, but fundamentally, ontologically, just one more thing among others. And what the great doctors of the church repeatedly say about God is that He just isn’t like that.
These new atavists share with their Catholic brethren a disillusionment with what they see as not just the disenchantment, but the feminization, of contemporary, post-feminist, post-sexual-revolution America.
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In the wake of Barron’s most recent comments, some liberal critics were quick to excoriate Barron, warning that Peterson — who has become increasingly popular in conservative circles for his open rejection of “political correction” — is a dangerously politicized figure whose views have been tainted by alt-right ideology. While Peterson has consistently disavowed his alt-right fanbase, it hasn’t stemmed his popularity or kept him from appearing with its most provocative luminaries, such as Milo Yiannopoulos.
“Social Darwinism and stratification of human beings according to ability of this kind ... are, in my opinion, completely antithetical to not only Catholic social teaching, but also to any basic sense of Catholic morality,” Rocha told the Register.