Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

Jordan Peterson gave the interview recently and I'm trying to make some sense from his word salad.

Science (or the proxy words he uses for scientists like "empiricists" and "postmodernists") and facts are wrong, but the fairytales in the Bible are right because they have a better story:

One of the strange intellectual events in the past 60 years is that the presumptions of the Enlightenment have been demonstrated to be false. The empiricists, or really the data-oriented people, believed for a long time that we could arrange the world around us merely as a consequence of the facts. The problem with that presumption is that there are an infinite number of facts. If they just lie there, unorganised, value-free and in no hierarchy, they can’t serve as a guide. You have to organise them and prioritise them in your attention and your actions. A description of the way facts are prioritised – that is a story.

This is a revolutionary realisation because it means ‘the story’ is inescapable. The postmodernists concluded, erroneously and precipitously, that the story that orients us is one of power. That’s wrong because power is an unstable basis for psychological integration and for social unity. Biblical stories make the insistence that the fundamental story is one of unity and also one of voluntary sacrifice. That is a very different story than that of power or its twin, a kind of demented hedonism, which also leads to psychological and social disintegration.

God in the Bible is not evil because that's what the communists are saying (you know, poisoning of the well). And patriarchy is not oppressive.

Richard Dawkins, for example, characterises the God of the [Old Testament] as a kind of a fascist terrorist. What Dawkins doesn’t realise is that he’s making the same argument as the postmodern leftists. He’s making the argument that the fundamental spirit of the patriarchy is oppressive. I don’t know, Richard, it isn’t obvious to me that you want to side with those people. You can see what they’re doing to your own discipline and to the universities, much to your horror.

Supernatural forces exist because of his personal incredulity and the god of the gaps:

supernatural and the natural are constantly operative in our lives. If we’re diligent materialists and we delve into the bottom of the world, we find at the end of our striving an impenetrable mystery – the mystery of the quantum world, where things behave in a manner that’s so unlike the way they behave at our natural level that we can’t even understand the phenomena.

Democrats are Marxists and trans people are part of Marxism (too bad he doesn't know that Communists are very much into macho culture like him and his Christian ilk. Eg when communists came to power in Cuba, Che Guevara persecuted boys he deemed efeminite and was throwing men into macho camps to man them up).
But not to worry, Elon and Vivek will save us:

The Democrats can’t provide that at the moment because they’re so fractured and so demented in their postmodern neo-Marxism that they think that men can become women. You can’t be any more confused than that. Hopefully they’ll sort themselves out. They have in the past.

We’ll see what happens with [Elon] Musk and [Vivek] Ramaswamy and [Tulsi] Gabbard and Vance. They’re remarkable people: very diverse in their viewpoints and their personalities. The question is whether they can unify or whether we’ll see a continual clash of titans.

And so on

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