It certainly showed me that all these rules and teachings the early Christians left us weren't just so powerful old men could oppress and tyrannize us. It's as if they got written down for an actual reason. Imagine that
Though, honestly, it was more Jordan Peterson showing me that, and then the way the troon train's gone full speed ahead ever since gay marriage became a non-issue really drove Peterson's point home for me. Pretty sad it takes a non-Christian to show people why a "dusty old book" is still worth keeping around, but I digress.
edit: am Christian so maybe that colors my perspective, but fwiw, when I encountered Peterson I wasn't Christian. Grew up in it but decided I was agnostic, then ran into Peterson's videos
Clown World shows me why such rules have to be set in stone as black and white morals and taught from childhood - because people are stupid. We don't really understand why something is bad unless we experience it for ourselves. You could not explain to ancient people's all the negatives that spread out from immoral behavior. It was something the prophets knew from generations of trial and error passed down as sacred wisdom. (from God if you're religious)
If they had put lengthy reasoning for why X is a sin, people would rationalize and do rules lawyering. "Ok I did fuck my dead brother's daughter, but looking at the logical justification for why it's deemed illegal, what I did isn't all that bad in modern times." People in fact do that with the Bible already.
"No, adultery bad. Faggotry bad. Stop it." Simple enough a child can understand and hold to that as long as society supports those values.
We don't really understand why something is bad unless we experience it for ourselves. You could not explain to ancient people's all the negatives that spread out from immoral behavior. It was something the prophets knew from generations of trial and error passed down as sacred wisdom. (from God if you're religious)
This hits home. I ran into Peterson's vids right when I was dealing with the effectsf living poorly, and right around the same time I was also running into stats from studies showing how living poorly/immorally/what have you had affected people. The fact life started getting better for me when I started even just trying to live morally really just fully opened the door the JBP stuff was starting to pry open.
As for why I fell out of the faith in the first place, a mix of influence from wider society and behavior from other Christians. Probably for reasons similar to any Westerner falling out of Christianity.
It certainly showed me that all these rules and teachings the early Christians left us weren't just so powerful old men could oppress and tyrannize us. It's as if they got written down for an actual reason. Imagine that
Though, honestly, it was more Jordan Peterson showing me that, and then the way the troon train's gone full speed ahead ever since gay marriage became a non-issue really drove Peterson's point home for me. Pretty sad it takes a non-Christian to show people why a "dusty old book" is still worth keeping around, but I digress.
edit: am Christian so maybe that colors my perspective, but fwiw, when I encountered Peterson I wasn't Christian. Grew up in it but decided I was agnostic, then ran into Peterson's videos
Clown World shows me why such rules have to be set in stone as black and white morals and taught from childhood - because people are stupid. We don't really understand why something is bad unless we experience it for ourselves. You could not explain to ancient people's all the negatives that spread out from immoral behavior. It was something the prophets knew from generations of trial and error passed down as sacred wisdom. (from God if you're religious)
If they had put lengthy reasoning for why X is a sin, people would rationalize and do rules lawyering. "Ok I did fuck my dead brother's daughter, but looking at the logical justification for why it's deemed illegal, what I did isn't all that bad in modern times." People in fact do that with the Bible already.
"No, adultery bad. Faggotry bad. Stop it." Simple enough a child can understand and hold to that as long as society supports those values.
Oh yeah, you're probably right.
This hits home. I ran into Peterson's vids right when I was dealing with the effectsf living poorly, and right around the same time I was also running into stats from studies showing how living poorly/immorally/what have you had affected people. The fact life started getting better for me when I started even just trying to live morally really just fully opened the door the JBP stuff was starting to pry open.
As for why I fell out of the faith in the first place, a mix of influence from wider society and behavior from other Christians. Probably for reasons similar to any Westerner falling out of Christianity.