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373. Social Justice: A Religious Movement | Andrew Doyle

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Presuppositions in Religion

I think what you have, especially on the psychopathic narcissistic fringes of what used to be the left, and you see this on the right as well, is the momentary self elevated to the status of God. So a religion specifies the deepest presuppositions and they have to be axiomatic because that's sort of where your ignorance bottoms out. And even the great clinicians, I believe, have abetted this regardless of my admiration for them by substituting the self for God. That's why critical race theorists put like this in Helen Lindsay's book: How did racism manifest in this situation? Yes, it's almost like a ghostly spiritual thing; there's always

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