“Faith is not the childish belief in magic. That is ignorance or even willful blindness. It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.”
– Jordan B. Peterson, Twelve Rules For Life, p. 107
“We blew the metaphysical foundations out from underneath our culture, and we need to get them back.”
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“There’s always a tension in religions between the dogmatic element and the spiritual element. And conservatives, technically speaking, tend to marshal themselves on the sides of the more rule-oriented and dogmatic elements of the religion, and liberals, roughly speaking, tend to marshal themselves more on the spiritual side. … The dogma is necessary because it conserves the structure, but the spiritual aspect is necessary because it updates the structure.”
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