Jordan Peterson’s Ideological Fallacies

This article was also published on Merion West https://merionwest.com/2020/06/20/does-jordan-peterson-misconstrue-myth/?fbclid=IwAR1deYSuHX0LRkuzheD_7MtDoD4oQjfx3ks4Q8WTolW3-lRI4ukt7WQzjjw Peterson argues that myth is an antidote to ideology. He insists that myth, as opposed to ideology, offers complete truth. By complete truth, he means that mythical narratives can represent the totality of conflicting forces in any given situation. In contrast, ideology is biased and one… Read More Jordan Peterson’s Ideological Fallacies

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Beyond Theodicy

A man was taking it easy, lying on the grass and looking up at the clouds. He was admiring the vastness of the universe when all of sudden he had this intense feeling as if he could feel the sacred presence of God around him. Overcome with this feeling he decided to talk to God. “God,”… Read More Beyond Theodicy

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On the Trinity

While writing this reflection, I found myself wondering what am I doing? Why am I writing about the Trinity? After all, this subject matter is among the most difficult and dangerous of all in Christian theology. No shortage of ink has been expended in writing about the Holy Trinity. Likewise, there is no shortage of… Read More On the Trinity

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Pentecost

Imagine a woman in black pantsuit clapping and stamping her feet one meter away as you take the last bite of your sandwich. Glancing over from your perch on the grass verge in front of the library, you notice that a teenager with a skateboard under his arm at the top of the square’s steps… Read More Pentecost

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Ascension

What do we make of the story of the ascension? Matthew and John don’t include the story, nor does Mark. Luke mentions the ascension in his gospel and in Acts. He writes that forty days after his resurrection, Jesus “was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight,” It… Read More Ascension

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Pharisee among the Philosophers

Fredrich Nietzsche’s 1873 manuscript “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” opens with the following scene. Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever little animals invented clever words, like truth and… Read More Pharisee among the Philosophers

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Sacred in the Mundane

Teresa of Avila was down to earth, humble and well articulate person. I learned about her while attending a Catholic boarding school in the Bengal region of India. Teresa came across as a person of courage, creativity and humour. She was outspoken and unapologetically herself. If she had written a letter and the correspondent… Read More Sacred in the Mundane

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Emmaus and The Vanishing Mediator

One of the most popular films in the mainstream cinema is ‘Mission Impossible’, starring Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, a top-secret agent for the IMF — the ‘Impossible Mission Force’. In the film, as in the television series on which it is based, Ethan Hunt receives his instructions via tape recording. The recording always… Read More Emmaus and The Vanishing Mediator

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A Curious Faith

Voltaire, a philosopher of the French enlightenment, famously said, “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”. Voltaire’s point was that the quality of an eon is defined by the quality of the question asked. He emphasised that the quality of the question determines the quality of the answer we get. Good… Read More A Curious Faith

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Easter Reflection: Who else than the Messiah Himself can be born in a grave?

My Good Friday reflection concluded with the parable of the mad man that was written by Frederic Nietzsche back in 1882. The parable is about a man who is perceived mad by the onlookers as he goes around announcing that God is dead. The parable gained incredible popularity in 1960s. Several newspapers and magazines, including… Read More Easter Reflection: Who else than the Messiah Himself can be born in a grave?

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