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Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
What I said was that Sam Harris tends to switch from being rational to bigoted (admittedly mostly against Islam, often for legitimate purposes, but often putting his foot in his mouth.) I am not dismissing him out of hand; I'm acknowledging that he's deeply flawed.

(September 8, 2018 at 9:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: So, either atheists are horrible, horrible bigots-- a bunch of nasty white males.  OR, and this is my position, atheists are tired of dogmatic bullshit, and are unlikely to consider PC Left dogmatic bullshit a worthy substitute for religious dogmatic bullshit.

Or it could just be an example of the point Eric Hoffer made (and you approved of with your kudos): "Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. The fanatics of various hues eye each other with suspicion and are ready to fly at each other’s throats. But they are neighbors and almost of one family. They hate each other with the hatred of brothers. They are as far apart and close together as Saul and Paul. And it is easier for a fanatic Communist to be converted to fascism, chauvinism or Catholicism than to become a sober liberal. " The True Believer, Section 62.

Because if they were really tired of dogmatic bullshit, would anyone with a functioning brain consider the sort of racialist bullshit that we discarded about half a century ago combined with turning into those absurd creatures from the id that the Alt-Right has courted (from the 4channer to the fucking President) a viable alternative?
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this? - by Rev. Rye - September 8, 2018 at 10:17 pm

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