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On Claiming Belief in God: Commentary & Discussion with Dennis Prager

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Does It Mean to Believe?

Gije said that the conditions of human existence are so tragic that even god himself, in human form, lost faith for a moment in the goodness of being. He talked about christ's moment of crisis on the cross when he cried out to god that he had been forsaken. And i thought that was a remarkable observation, because, well, if god himself would lose faith under such conditions, what would you expect from normal human beings confronted with what we're confronted by? An to be able to acceptthe structure of existence, the suffering that goes along with it, and the disappointment and the betrayaldto none the less act properly right,. To aim at the good with all your heart

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