Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Well, that's what you do to someone that you're...

angry about.

You don't shake your fist at the rocks on the ground.

You shake your fist at the imaginary being in the sky, even if you're an atheist.

And that's an interesting thing because what it indicates, at least to some degree, is that A, even if you're atheistic, you wrestle with God.

And B, even if you're atheistic...

you're at least unconsciously in a relationship, because why else bother with the anger?

Why else?

What else is the source of the moral outrage?

And, you know, one of the things I've noticed is that, because I've read a lot of comments from atheists, like, I don't know, maybe more than anybody else in the world, you know, I'm dead serious about that, because I've done a lot of

analysis of biblical stories, let's say, online, and I read most of the comments that are put on my YouTube channel, and that's often like, you know, a thousand, five thousand comments a week, a lot of comments.

And some of the arguments that the atheists mount against what I'm elucidating, let's say, are rationalistic, materialistic, atheist objections, but most of them are angry.

And a lot of them are written by people who were hurt by people who purported to be religious at some point in their lives.

You know, they had a tyrannical... They encountered the tyranny of dogmatic insistence in religious guys, and that damaged them and left them with...

with a resentment towards anything, with a religious flavor, let's say.

But even that, that's not a rational argument, by the way.

Let's point that out very clearly.

That's an emotional argument.

And it's the kind of emotional argument that you would mount against someone that you're in a relationship with.

Now, then you might ask yourself about that.