I am a Buddhist and never thought that it would be meaningful to read/study the Bible until I started listening to Peterson.

It’s important, despite your faith, to acknowledge the key text that has, for thousands of years, held many people together. This is what Peterson and Jung call an “archetypical story” — whether it’s a story that is capable of being proven by science as true or false, a hypothesis with no way of structuring a control experiment to test, or just an idea that happens to have been floated around for a long time, we simply cannot dismiss it as we like. Why?

Because the Bible has been critical to about 1/2 of the population of the world in their way of thinking, sensing and perceiving “sensibilities” around us. I, therefore, have begun to study the Bible not to give myself a new faith (I am still a Buddhist, whose doctrines are quite different from Christianity) but in order to help me empathetically and sensibly communicate with those who believe in the Bible. I believe, as Peterson also believes, that it’s important to communicate effectively with the understanding of why people tend to communicate the way they do with the choices of words that they make, so that we can “actually communicate” rather than having a monolouge.