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February 28, 2018
What do Jordan Peterson’s and Harvard’s Views of Truth Have to do with One Another?
Post by Nathan Rinne The key similarity is this: Both are confident that their understanding of what is both significant and true will, in the long run, be justified. This, interestingly, is related to their persons – to the fact that they understand themselves as striving to be as true as one can be.[i] […]
February 16, 2018
Why Jordan Peterson’s New Book Doesn’t Work
Post by Nathan Rinne (Note: revised edition of this post from my own blog a few weeks ago…) +++ So, Jordan Peterson. I’m guessing you have heard of him by now. Is he just a high-brow Joel Osteen? More like a secular C.S. Lewis? Just You Tube’s most popular cult leader? * Or, as the world’s […]
February 15, 2018
Response to Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro on Religion (On the Rubin Report)
I I have been repeatedly asked by listeners to interact with both Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. The recent discussion on the Rubin Report between both of them presented a great opportunity to do so, as they addressed the topic of religion. In this program, I responded to their comments on Christianity, though I dealt […]
Problems with Intellectual Discourse in our Culture
As a follow up to the recent post addressing the lack of nuance in social media discussions on important topics, I recorded a video which addresses five major problems with the intellectual discourse in our current cultural climate. Check it out here.
February 14, 2018
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February 10, 2018
Problems with Mormonism: Adam God
(A video form of this post can also be found here). The Problem of False Revelation Though a relatively young religious movement, the Mormon faith has experienced an extensive amount of revision since its founding in the 1820s to 1840s by Joseph Smith. A number of controversial doctrines were taught by earlier leaders in the […]
