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The Counsel of Trent

#1039 - My Thoughts on Jordan Peterson's Jubilee Appearance

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode Trent analyzes Jordan Peterson's recent debate with 20 atheists on the Jubilee channel.

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This week, the Jubilee Channel released an episode that was originally called Christian versus 20 atheists featuring Jordan Peterson.

0:07.0

But Peterson wouldn't even use the label Christian to describe himself.

0:10.0

So they changed the title to simply Jordan Peterson versus 20 atheists.

0:15.0

But for many people who do call themselves Christians, this was a missed opportunity to show the truth of the Christian faith to inquiring

0:20.9

skeptics. So in today's episode, I'm going to discuss what's wrong with Jordan Peterson's

0:25.7

apologetics, if you can call it that, but also what Peterson gets right as a sincere truth seeker.

0:32.0

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0:44.3

Now, the Jordan Peterson Christian phenomena is an odd one, because he is famously ambiguous about his religious beliefs.

0:52.3

But many people also see Peterson as a kind of Christian

0:55.3

figure. There have even been entire books written about him and his relationship to the Christian

1:00.2

faith. I think Jordan Peterson is popular with an extremely frustrating for Christians for this

1:06.9

reason. Peterson is very good at explaining the bad news of the secular life, but he is not

1:12.9

able to explain the good news of Christianity. When it comes to the bad news, Peterson initially rose

1:18.8

to prominence as a critic of Canadian transgender laws that threaten free speech by compelling people

1:24.2

to use certain pronouns. In this iconic interview from 2018, Peterson shuts down a Canadian broadcaster who floats

1:31.3

the silly idea that people have the right to not be offended.

1:35.3

You cited freedom of speech in that. Why should your right to freedom of speech

1:39.3

trump a trans person's right not to be offended?

1:43.3

Because in order to be offended?

1:47.8

Because in order to be able to think,

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