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This is from April, but just in case you haven't seen it, I thought it was worth posting.
Better, I think, to approach Jung through religion, which has a certain resonance with some Christians, for instance, among some Orthodox.I have never heard Jordan Peterson identify himself as an atheist. He seems to be the type of person to approach religion through Jung, which has a certain resonance with some Christians, for instance, among some Episcopalians and Anglicans.
He’s almost like an ancient pagan on the verge of finding Christ. He has a lot of truth, but his humanist assumptions undercut some of his otherwise good and even great observations.
He really likes to quote and lean on Solzhenitsyn... But somehow he missed (or ignores) the part where Solzhenitsyn explained HOW and why humanism died and that our only remaining option in the face of horrific atrocity is to look Upwards to God.
For example:
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)
As an aside - it is worth remembering that leaning on the “Primordial ooze” giving birth to Creation by the agency of Chaos is the literal underpinning of the entire ancient Babylonian religious system (and thus the subsequent ancient Greek and Roman systems based on it).... This new “scientific” belief is literally the foundation of ancient paganism.
Humanism seems to produce better measures of human development, than countries that are oriented towards theocracy.
Until they devolve into Machiavellian atrocity that has no backstop of final responsibility/threat of standing before The God of All Creation...
My friend - humanism was dead long before I came along. Your argument is with fellows like Solzhenitsyn and Deitrich Bonhoeffer who witnessed it’s abject failure in the face of raging evil....
Anytime ANYONE says anything positive about Our Lord and Holy Orthodoxy, TAKE IT AND RUN! I don't care if the person is atheist or they worship Don Henley! Just be glad we have any advocates, friends, or positivity coming our way as we try to navigate through a culture worldwide that is taught the 'beauties' of sodomy, cohabitation, abortion, feminism, free sex, legalized drugs, atheism, evolution, and secular humanism. We don't have many friends, and we need all we can get! Like Rus said, perhaps Dr. Peterson is on a journey we just don't know about. I recall a fella by the name of Emperor Constantine that was a secularized violent character, but he was friendly to Orthodox. He eventually had the word "saint" put in front of his name. Heck, this other guy, Saul of Tarsus, had nothing good to say about these folks called Christians. Knocking him off his horse did the trick....
Absolutely..
And to reiterate (and pile on).....
Just because someone doesn’t believe in God doesn’t mean that God can’t use them for great works which glorify His Holy Name.....
And interestingly we notice how God will use unbelievers to accomplish mighty things which a pious belief in God would basically disallow.
For example - George Soros singlehandedly collapsed the currency and entire economy of The USSR in the 1989. A faithful Christian or pious Jew’s belief would prevent us from intentionally collapsing the economy of an evil nation simply out of pity for the suffering of the millions of citizens within it...
Agreed....but sadly Soros is now trying to destroy and destabilize the West and put us u see the yoke of socialism and tyranny.
Good, I hope people will abandon him for the truth of Christianity and forget his nonsense.This is from April, but just in case you haven't seen it, I thought it was worth posting.
I think it’s better not to approach Jung at all.Better, I think, to approach Jung through religion, which has a certain resonance with some Christians, for instance, among some Orthodox.
Anytime ANYONE says anything positive about Our Lord and Holy Orthodoxy, TAKE IT AND RUN! I don't care if the person is atheist or they worship Don Henley! Just be glad we have any advocates, friends, or positivity coming our way as we try to navigate through a culture worldwide that is taught the 'beauties' of sodomy, cohabitation, abortion, feminism, free sex, legalized drugs, atheism, evolution, and secular humanism. We don't have many friends, and we need all we can get! Like Rus said, perhaps Dr. Peterson is on a journey we just don't know about. I recall a fella by the name of Emperor Constantine that was a secularized violent character, but he was friendly to Orthodox. He eventually had the word "saint" put in front of his name. Heck, this other guy, Saul of Tarsus, had nothing good to say about these folks called Christians. Knocking him off his horse did the trick....