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Does God Exist ? Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty - Claim Analysis

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Watch full discussion here: https://youtu.be/FmH7JUeVQb8
Matt Dillahunty goes head-to-head with Jordan Peterson on God, Religion, Morality & more!

Claims:

1. MD doesn’t believe there is a God.

2. JP believes that God is a complicated problem that we don’t take seriously enough.

3. JP believes that the Western cultural assumptions that work for us exist in an immovable layer of metaphor.

4. JP believes that when you enter that layer of metaphor, you are in the domain of religious experience.

5. MD doesn’t believe that what JP said relates to the validity of God’s existence

6. JP doesn’t believe that it is easy to distinguish between what’s real and what’s useful.

7. JP believes that there are different levels of sophistication in religious belief.

8. JP believes that atheists spend a lot of time thinking & he respects that.

9. JP believes that most of atheist thinking is directed towards American Christian fundamentalism.

10. JP believes that if you are a serious religious thinker, you can’t claim that the Bible is a scientific theory.

11. JP believes that the first scientist existed no earlier than Ancient Greece.

12. JP believes that those who conjured up the Old Testament were not doing science & to believe that is a mistake that will only be made by those who don’t know how to distinguish between different kinds of truth.

13. JP believes that the Christian fundamentalists are trying to maintain a collection of stories in which the Western belief systems are grounded because they find them extremely valuable.

14. JP believes that Christian fundamentalists don’t want to be confronted by atheist types because it blows their belief systems apart.

15. JP believes that you fall into a “pit” (likely meaning a low psychological state) if you’re wrong.

16. MD believes that being wrong feels exactly like being right & that we assume we are correct about many things.

17. MD believes that we are more afraid of being exposed as wrong, not the fact of being wrong.

18. JP believes that being wrong at a deep level can “take you apart” and that people don’t like to be taken apart. Hence, people don’t like being wrong.

19. JP believes that the celebrity atheists aren’t addressing the real issues relating to God as authored by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Jung & Eliade.

20. JP believes that Sam Harris doesn’t contend with the previously stated authors in any way & that this is equivalent to an evolutionary biologist not being aware of Darwin.

21. MD doesn’t believe that there are valid & sound arguments to warrant belief in the existence of God.

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