Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

found great wisdom in Taoism and in ancient Egyptian theology and in ancient Mesopotamian theology and many places that I've looked.

But it's certainly the case that I've found a wealth of wisdom, at least as rich in the biblical corpus, in the Judeo-Christian stories.

And I would say deeper.

And that's partly because a lot of those stories were written

They're the culture, part of the culture heritage of Judaism, and the Jews are smart, and preternaturally smart in some ways, and they were immensely remarkable storytellers, and the stories they told are unbelievably deep.

They're insanely deep, and we'll wander through a couple tonight, and I'll show you some of that depth, and I'll...

And then Fry did something interesting.

You know, he started talking about God, and I said, well, you know, what's your problem exactly with God as a concept?

And I was expecting something akin to the materialist atheist notion that God is a superfluous hypothesis.

And

You know, that's a perspective, but not a very deep perspective in my estimation, and a very dangerous one, as we're finding out right now.

But Fry actually got angry.

And what he got angry about, one of the things he pointed to, was the suffering of children, just like Ivan.

He talked about watching children with bone cancer suffer, you know, and how dreadful that was and how preposterous it was to presume that in a world characterized by the suffering of innocents,

that anything that could be regarded as a transcendent good might be held to exist.

Now, but, and fair enough, you know, you can understand that argument.

But what I found so remarkable was he was actually angry about it.

He was angry about it.

He was morally outraged about it.

He was shaking his fist at the sky.