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255. What We Can All Learn From Islam & The Quran | Hamza Yusuf

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Values and Atheism

i've had a lot of discussions with people who regard themselves as explicitly atheistic, and it seems to me that a lot of the discussion about religious belief in atheism, misses the mark. I tend to think of god, if i'm thinking about the idea of god, psychologically, i tend to think about something akin to a hierarchy of values. And so i would say i think that's psychologically true, that there are some values higher than others. Mean, we tend to put our families before ourselves, for example. We tend to have a sense that we would like to be good people. Each of the more particular things nests in the broader value. And the broader a value is,

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