Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And that's what the biblical corpus investigates.

I say biblical corpus because...

It's a body, like a body of laws.

It's a body of stories.

It's a body of animating stories.

That's another way of thinking about it.

And all stories contain within them an animating spirit.

That's the moral of the story, by the way.

The seed around which the entire story organizes itself, or the seed from which it grows.

The seed that is planted in you when you hear a story or tell a story.

Over millennia, our ancestors aggregated stories that burned themselves into their memory, all aimed at answering the same question, toward what should sacrifice be devoted?

Now that archaic terminology grates on our modern ears.

We think of burnt altars and smoking carcasses and primitive gods that enjoy the smell of

high-quality roasted fat, and we fail to investigate.

To what end should sacrifice be devoted?

What does that mean?

You will wrestle with that question your entire life.

There is no difference conceptually between sacrifice and work.

They're the same thing.

Work