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The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Greatest Possible Sacrifice?

The god of western tradition, like so many gods, requires sacrifice. But sometimes he goes even further and demands the sacrifice of precisely what is loved best. This is most starkly portrayed in the story of abraham and isaac. Sometimes when things are not going well, it's not the world that is the cause. The cause is, instead, that which is most valued. Why? Because the world is revealed to an interminate degree through the template of your values. If the world you are seeing is not the world you ant therefore, it's time to examine your values. It's time to rid yourself of your current presuppositions. And might even be time to

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