Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And that's the most fundamental narrative trope.

And it's the meta-story that burns us, that's burned itself into our imagination and our memory.

And why?

Because that's your story.

whether you know it or not.

And no matter where you are in that story, you're in that story.

And no matter which side you're on or what stance you take, you're in that story wrestling with God.

And that's human destiny.

There's probably no one who thinks of God more than a committed atheist.

Right, and that's not accidental.

All right, so...

I'm going to walk you through a bit of the first story in the biblical corpus, just to give you a flavor of exactly how this works.

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

A few sentences.

A relatively radical claim.

So let me delve into this a little bit.

Without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.

It's a juxtaposition of a sequence of metaphors.

The original Hebrew word was tohu v'bohu.