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A smack is also something much more likely to be done out of immediate anger, which brings me to my second point.Īll of those articles' main point is that beating your kids damages them. A smack across the face in anger and doling out a punishment due to not behaving they way you're supposed to, are separate things. Spanking, however, is not the same thing. I don't believe parents should smack their kids, and I know of no legitimate studies that say that you should. And, like the bible, I don't necessarily take what he says as objective truths, but I think the points he makes are still very useful.įirst, Peterson said spanking, not smacking. These parts may not have been necessary but I think it helped me understand where he was getting his philosophy and ideas. Anyway, there are only two chapters where he really gets into the philosophy behind religion.
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He stated the subjective truths he knows in the bible in a very objective manner, and even related it to other eastern religions. I didn't however feel that he was trying to incorporate his beliefs into my life and turn me to god or whatever. I will agree with you, I think Peterson is probably a Christian, but I think that this was probably the best way for him to argue what he knows as it is what he knows as true. Regardless of whether you believe in Christianity or not, the Bible still represents the things he is trying to get across, those being chaos and order and what makes people happy. Well I must say, I don't believe in God or anything, but I believe that the Bible (like many religious writings, including other ones referenced in his book) does still have good truths and wisdom relating to the human condition. I think I saw someone describe it as, people doing well enough that they can't complain, but not so well that they have nothing to complain about, and I think that's probably a an apt description also. The books seems to resonate mostly with lower/middle class, white men, not to say other people won't get some resonance with it, but that seems to make up most of the audience. Because he drags everything out so much you get to understand how and why he comes to the decisions he does, and that's what I enjoyed the most.įWIW, if anyone is trying to decide if they want to get the book or not there is a Conservative/religious tilt to the book, not enough to put me off (Fairly far to the left, and atheist), but that may kill the book for some. Otherwise I enjoy following how Peterson's mind works, I don't always agree with where it goes, but that's a lot of the enjoyment of it for me. Generally speaking there's a certain mindset that his form of self-help applies to, if you don't have that mindset the book probably won't act as good self-help, if you do he's apparently a Godsend (pun intended :) ). I came into the book having listened to a bunch of Peterson's podcast/debates and was aware of the political situation that surrounds him before picking this up, so that may have steered my listening of the book. Instead, it provides me an opportunity to pause and reflect, and I often become more understanding and empathetic by incarnationally listening to others who perceive the world differently. And in those 40+ years I've learned that just because somebody has a different perspective than me, doesn't necessarily make them wrong. But Peterson shared thoughts on some passages that I've never, ever, ever heard in my life (of over 40 years). To be fair, I would consider myself a student of the Bible, so perhaps my opinion is moot here on reddit.
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Heck, I have staunch atheist friends who readily acknowledge the value found within some passages of the Bible. Dismissing something completely just because it quotes the Bible seems an odd decision. Peterson brings a different perspective, which at the very least ought to cause the reader to pause and reflect. Maybe it's just me, but I would guess that the majority of folks who hear Peterson quoting the Bible and immediately find it off-putting - just because it's the Bible - likely haven't spent much time grasping how some of these same passages are taught by evangelical christians today. What's interesting to me, is that the religious understanding he shared is quite different than what you'd hear in much of the Christian/Evangelical world (in the West) today.