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Dr. Jordan Peterson
IN 2018, Professor Jordan Peterson was cemented as a new kind of spokesman for a disaffected generation around the globe, leaving many to consider his growing popularity as nothing short of a cultural phenomenon.
In the second part of this exclusive interview with the popular public intellectual and author, he describes the Catholic Church as the 'lynchpin of Christianity.'
In his international bestseller
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr Peterson considers the fashionable suggestion by various professionals that evil is an antiquated concept.
"I think you are vulnerable to what you deny," he said. "If you familiarise yourself with 20th century history in particular and don't walk away with a sense of evil then you just haven't done the reading.
"It's just one example, but the gates at Auschwitz that pronounced 'work sets you free'-what is that? It's a 'joke,' malevolence, and the
denial of evil allows it to flourish.
"In the classic myths when the god Horus encounters his uncle Seth, the god of evil, it costs him the loss of an eye.
"It's no wonder people don't want to admit to [the existence of evil] because it permeates everything, the culture, the family and yourself, and to see that in those places is devastating.
"Often when naive people encounter someone truly malevolent it traumatises them so badly that they never recover, and even physiologically it causes damage; it's no joke. It's much easier to be casually forgiving and not take the problem with the degree of seriousness that it deserves."
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