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Today, we're going to react to his podcast with Constantine Kissin and the Counter-Woke Revolution. So, if this is the very first time for you seeing my face over here, no, I haven't been a Muslim all my life. Quite the opposite. Let me double check. Yep, it has been exactly two weeks. So prior to that, 35 years, I have been a Christian, an Orthodox Christian to be precise. And after dissecting both ideologies carefully for multiple years, I finally submitted my will to God and became a Muslim. Thank God. So we all know very well that Jordan Peterson spent multiple years of his life studying Christianity and looking into Islam. He had a fair shot. So I'm very curious to see to what conclusion he came. With no further ado, let's have a look. Okay, so let's agree that you shouldn't subordinate yourself arbitrarily to a rigid structure. Now, you might want to do that sporadically to discipline yourself. Right? But the object shouldn't be submission. Now, what's weird in the biblical narrative? Okay, this sentence alone explains why Jordan Peterson cannot give you a straightforward answer on the question if he believes in God. What do you mean, do? What do you mean, you? What do you mean, believe? And what do you mean, God? So he already tells you that you do not have to submit yourself to a rigid belief system just occasionally to discipline yourself. Guys, I come from a bodybuilding background. If I would occasionally discipline myself, I wouldn't build the body that I have. If you want to be a bodybuilder, you would have to submit yourself 100% to bodybuilding. And of course, the same even more so applies to God. How can we sporadically submit ourselves to a rigid belief system? That doesn't make any sense. The goal is not submission. It's so weird. It's covenantal relationship. And covenantal relationship is actually relationship. So one of the things you see with Moses, for example, and you also see this with Abraham, is that they're constantly negotiating with God. That's why the name of my next book, by the way, is... Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic. So if you look into the Jewish theology, yes, that is correct. They're arguing with God and there is an instance where the Jews even warned an argument with God. But how can that be? What kind of pathetic God would this be? Where you, a mere creature, a mere human being, can outsmart God, your God, your Creator. Listen to this. I'm a father. My son is two years old. He cannot outsmart me if he goes to the candy drawer as if I do not know that. He cannot outsmart me. He's two years old and this is just in a human context. Think about yourself, a mere creature made out of flesh and then God, the absolute transcendence, the ultimate intelligence. How can you debate and discuss with that force? Of course you cannot. It is absolutely pathetic to think so. But, however, it truly crystallizes John Peter's mindset here because it shows us how in love he is with his own intellect, with his own ego. He truly believes that he doesn't have to submit. Why would you have to submit to God? Why would I? I'm going to argue and debate with him. This points out beautifully that he cannot get into a state of peace because he is always reliant upon himself. He simply wants to make himself God, don't you see? It's a negotiation. It's not a submission. And so, God is always threatening to wipe out the Israelites in the desert. He's just sick and tired of their idol worship and their whiny resentment and their bitterness and their worship of the past tyranny. And he's constantly threatening just to wipe them out and start again. And that's the apocalypse, I suppose. And Moses is constantly interceding on their behalf and telling God he shouldn't break his word. And the odd thing in the story is that God actually listens, which is rather preposterous. But the reason that's happening is to mitigate again. So there you have it. You yourself agree that it is preposterous and it absolutely is. In Islam we talk about the fitra, the natural predisposition of man, the primordial state of man, in which he knows right from wrong, in which he knows that there's only one God worth submitting to. Everybody that has 1% of that fitra left knows intuitively that this is absolutely ridiculous. Why would Moses, somebody that was sent by God, debate with God? It doesn't make sense. That's exactly the problem that you described, which is to have the relationship with the transcendent degenerate into nothing but a blind obedience. And then the danger of that is, well, a blind obedience to who? And I see this as a threat in Islam in the more fundamentalist forms of Islam. It's like, well, you should submit to Allah. It's like, hey, fair enough. Allah. Allah as interpreted by who? Oh, totalitarian misogynistic mullahs. How about, no, I don't buy your Allah. And I don't see who made you the right, precise. And even if I... So first and foremost, John Peterson talks about blind obedience. But blind obedience was not the reason why I found myself becoming a Muslim in the first place. Quite the opposite. If you open up the Koran, you will see that the Koran is asking the reader to ponder, to reflect, to ask questions, to seek further knowledge. It is not about shutting off your brain, but quite the opposite. Using your God-given intellect to see the truth yourself. So no, Islam is not only about blind obedience. Of course, there are certain commands by God that you would have to carry out. This is the same thing in every religion, of course. And this constitutes a religion. Even if you are not religious whatsoever, there are certain rules that you obey. If you look at the American Constitution or you look at human rights or what not. There is always a law in place that you obey based upon what you find reasonable or maybe you're just scared of the law, you're scared of the repercussions and therefore you obey it blindly. Yet again, religion is here to give us an external standard outside of our self. And this should appeal to you, John Peterson, because you're talking about counter-wokism. What is wokism ultimately? It is worshipping your own desires. This really what it boils down to. As long as it feels good, we can pursue it. Hey, today I feel like a girl, tomorrow I feel like a tile. Who cares? I want to pursue it because it feels good. Identify myself as a teddy bear. But religion presupposes that there are divine laws and only if we follow those divine spiritual laws we will lead a good life. Very similar to physical laws, just transcendent of it, of course. If you look at gravity, even if you do not fully understand it, you submit yourself to the laws of gravity and you do not jump off a building. Because if you do, the consequence would be highly likely certain death. So you do not do that. And it's the same with religious laws. You reason yourself into it at first, or at least you should. And then when you accept it, you can submit yourself to it. Yet again, just like a workout regimen, at first I would have to see the data, for example. Does it really bring positive outcomes when people go to the gym and follow a healthy diet? I see enough evidence for this. Okay, now I'm going to submit myself to fitness. Now I'm going to eat six meals a day of rice and chicken and I'm going to work out religiously. Don't you understand? But to give him the benefit of the doubt, I do understand the authoritarian problem here that he doesn't want to submit his will to certain mullahs. I understand that, but this is up to you again to filter out the information. Nobody tells you that you have to submit to a mullah. This is not Hinduism where you have to submit yourself to a guru. You have to learn yourself. You will have to see in the end, right from wrong. That guy in the sky, I'm not sure I need a middleman to talk to him. Right? Well, that makes you a good Protestant. But look, we could also... Yeah, or rather a good Muslim because in Islam we don't have a pope, we don't have clergy, we don't have anybody that stands between us and God. Moreover, we don't have any saints or we don't pray to Jesus or Mother Mary in order to have a connection to God. Well, we could also go down that rabbit hole a little bit, you know, and it's worth it because I also think this is how we ended up in this postmodern excess liberal conundrum. So Jung talked about Catholicism, as we mentioned, and he talked about the utility and mercy of the confessional and that possibility of atonement. But he also laid out the dangers of that. The dangers of the Catholic structure is, what would you say, a tilt towards authoritarian rigidity, which is what the Protestants rebelled against. That's why as a former Orthodox, I never resonated with the Catholic structure because we do not believe that one man holds all the authority that a man can be the vicar of Christ. But then the question is, well, what's the danger of the Protestant Revolution? And the danger is that everybody becomes his own church. Exactly right. And then here's the problem. You tell me what you think about this. Here's the logical conclusion of that. You're your own church. You're your own God. Now you can say what God said to Moses out of the depths of the burning bush. You can say, I am what I am. And I would say that's what the identity politics types do. They say, look, I am so superordinate in my own self-defining identity that no matter what identity claim I put forward, it is incumbent upon you to accept it as if it comes from an omniscient source. Exactly right. And with this you're debunking yourself, not only the Protestants, because you yourself, as I said, cannot answer the question if a God exists and moreover, you cannot confirm that the revelation, the Bible is truly the revelation of God. You find it preposterous when you analyze it yourself. God actually listens, which is rather preposterous, but... And therefore you make the outrageous claim that you can submit yourself to it partially just to discipline yourself. Don't you see what you're doing here? You're using religion to your own little benefit. I'm disciplining myself. Which means your motivation is the opposite of selflessness. It comes from the self and therefore, hence, you become your own God. And I think, as far as I can tell, Konstantin, that's where we are, right? Increasingly by force of law. You too. If you make an identity claim, no matter how preposterous, which implies that there's some limit to identity claims, by the way. Oh, right, guys. And that's it for today's video. I'm going to cut it off here. This is a podcast and it is one hour and 20 minutes long, definitely worth while listening to and dissecting the psychology of a Jordan Peterson. However, even this short clip here already explains all that we need to know. This is why this man is suffering. Muhammad Hijab analyzed him Islamically. He gave him a psychological evaluation and told him what the reason is that he is depressed. From the Quranic paradigm, this will not be enough. Meaning, based on your current paradigm, according to the Islamic diagnosis, you will be depressed. Why? Because your purpose is not strong enough. Which is truly what it boils down to, because I am really questioning how can you commit your whole life writing books about the Bible, essentially a tefsir, on the Bible, what it could potentially mean. Philosophical excursions into the stories, the mythical stories of the Bible, but you do not even believe in God as your Creator, as somebody worth submitting to. You are still wrestling with God, indeed, because you bought into the ideology that you can outsmart, outwit God, that you can debate and wrestle with Him. Don't you understand that this is the root issue, Jordan Peterson, of your suffering, only if we submit ourselves fully to the will of God, only if we accept the easiness of this world. The way that it is, can we find peace? Alright guys, but this is it for today's video. If you liked it, leave the thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel via Patreon, for example, all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support, guys. And as always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.