
174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
The Michael Shermer Show
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Theists and Atheists
I think theists and atheists both, and i've done this on both ends, take these things too literally. That's why i'm pushing this idea of religious truth, metaphorical truth, mythic truth and so on. When i was a christian at pepperdine, you know, i believed it all. And then in the eighties, i went through my joseph campbell phase. I had kind of a newfound respect for the jesus story. But with sceptic, and we startad sceptic, i started getting articles from atheists that was going, ok, say, the biblical story of the flood or this or that a could be explained by natural
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