Theists and Atheists

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

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

Join Michael Shermer and Jordan Peterson (bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life) for this extraordinary conversation based on Peterson’s new book Beyond Order. After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe. What is it that gives Peterson’s message such mass appeal?