Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "\"Jordan Peterson: \"I am now able to fully OPEN UP!!\"" video.
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@junevandermark952 "What did Jordan say that you believe is "unquestionable" truth"
He said that studies show that in societies where the reversal of what are assumed to be culturally defined gender roles in careers is encouraged the individual choice for traditional career roles INCREASES. This is an absurd challenge. Even liars tell the truth part of the time. Did you really think nobody could answer that?
"Jordan USED his license as a psychologist to go on social media to preach"
Nobody seriously thinks his popularity and prominence is due to a license and he clearly distinguished those of his points which were based on his clinical training and practice. Professionals can have views and express them. They can even have religious views and express them.
" he wouldn't have all this trouble brought onto him by the Canadian Board of Psychologists."
The balance of the evidence does not bear out your assertion. The Board sought to suppress JP for political reasons. Nothing he did or said was beyond his civil rights or professional ethics. Depending on the depth of their self-importance, it may be conceivable that they THOUGHT that his license had something to do with his success. That does not excuse what they did. They sent a message that clinical licenses are hostage to political conformity.
"Just as the Catholic popes wanted the Protestants to be put to death for heresy … the Jews wanted Jesus and his heretical followers to be put to death for heresy against them.
I agree with the words of the now-dead Christopher Hitchens … “Religion poisons everything.”
You cite two instances from two religions and generalize them as characteristic of religion as a whole. Religion is such a broad term that almost nothing can be generalized concerning religion as a whole, certainly not religions as opposed to other ideologies, notably atheism. As an antidote to ideological murder, atheism has a singularly abysmal track record. From the Jacobin Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, through the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Communist China, Cuba, and the Pol Pot regime; the result of a society based on atheism has invariably been bloodbath after bloodbath. The USSR alone murdered more of its own civilians than have ever been killed in all the inquisitions, pogroms, and purely religious wars in recorded history, and they only lasted: what? 80 or so years?
The very concept of tolerating other ideologies you're getting from Protestant Christianity. And you're currently speaking out in opposition to that principle. It's you that's defending the punishment of thought and expression here, not any religion.
Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) ended slavery; implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
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