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Jordan Peterson on Religion

born 1962 Canada

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If religion was "the opium of the masses," then communism was the methamphetamine of the masses.

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion—and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings.

Maps of Meaning (1999)

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