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God and the Hierarchy of Authority
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Impossible Ideal: The King and the Bible
The idea of god is an abstracted ideal, formulated in large part to dissociate the ideal from any particular incarnation or man, or any ruler./nWhen the actual ruler becomes confused with the abstracted ideal, then the state immediately turns into a tyranny./nThe idea of god is so isticated, you know, one of the things that we figured out, was that you had to take the abstraction and divorce it from any particular power structure.
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