Jordan Peterson cries talking about Jesus Christ (short clip)

this particular critic that i've been reading said well that that doesn't differentiate christ much from a whole sequence of dying and resurrecting mythological gods and of course people have made that claim in comparative religion joseph campbell did that and jung to a lesser degree i would say but campbell did that but the difference and c.s lewis pointed this out as well the difference between those mythological gods and christ was that there's a there's a representation of there's a historical representation of his of of his existence as well now you can debate whether or not that's genuine you can debate about whether or not he actually lived and whether there's credible objective evidence for that but it doesn't matter in some sense because this well it does but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter because there's still a historical story and so what you have in the figure of christ is an actual person who actually lived plus a myth and in some sense christ is the union of those two things the problem is is i probably believe that but i don't know i don't i'm amazed at my own belief and i don't understand it like because i've seen sometimes the objective world and the narrative world touch you know that's union synchronicity and i've seen that many times in my own life and so in some sense i believe it's undeniable you know we have a narrative sense of the world for me that's been the world of morality that's the world that tells us how to act it's real like we treat it like it's real it's not the objective world but the narrative and the objective world touch and the ultimate example of that in principle is supposed to be christ but i don't know what to and that seems to me oddly plausible yeah but i still don't know what to make of it it's too it partly because it's too terrifying a reality to fully believe i don't even know what would happen to you if you fully believed it if you believed in the story of christ or if you believe that history and and let's say the narrative meet let's both i think i think you because when you believe that you buy both those stories you believe that the narrative and the objective can actually touch

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Published: Thu Mar 11 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/SweetLenore]

Did he drop some acid before this talk? Because then I get it.

I like how the other dude seems even taken aback.

[u/cheeseyman12]

perfect example of JB's amazing talent of using so many words to not make a single coherent argument or point

[u/hypnobear83]

He seems like a guy that cries after watching porn

[u/BaptizedInBud]

Fucking cringe

[u/hypnobear83]

Jesus Christ he’s cringe. Let’s start a drinking game where we take a shot every time Peterson cries at his own cringe shit. He’s worse than a pregnant woman.

[u/b_buster118]

Jordan Peterson Talks A Bunch of Wank about Christ and Starts Crying

you'll have to be more specific, this could be any number of Peterson streams.

[u/yungmemlord]

What is Peterson even trying to say here? Christ is the only figure which we have history about? Has he never heard of the historicity of the Mahabharata or the Ramayana? What about Buddhism? Why is Christ any different?

C’mon Jordan, you can’t expect to quote Christ’s historicity as a significant characteristic but not talk about other religions’ historicity.

And please stop crying whenever you talk about this. It makes you seem manipulative.

[u/Adwolf667]

I had an argument with a fine specimen on this site about how Mr Peterson's self help bullshit is just a gateway to his religious bullshit....

[u/Sergeantman94]

Good god, so much WAAAAANK from this talk alone. I couldn't even decipher what the hell he was talking about. Was he crying because stories reflect reality?

Not to knock any Christians in this sub, I've been going through a sort of spiritual reawakening of my own, and let's be fair, Jesus as he's portrayed has more in common with the left than he does with Peterson.

Plus, I've read one of the translations for "Thou shalt not use the lord's name in vain" has less to do with cursing and more to do with using the lord as a means of personal gain. So, would this and the subsequent talks Peterson will do (and charge for) talking about his belief in Jesus to reach a wider audience and getting his name out there count as breaking that commandment?