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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Anthony

We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a return to God… by way of the Brothers Grimm and The Lion King

Paradise Landscape With Eve Tempting Adam by Jan Brueghel the Younger
Paradise Landscape With Eve Tempting Adam by Jan Brueghel the Younger. Photograph: Heritage Images/Getty Images

There is an oddly entertaining, if largely unenlightening, debate available online between Richard Dawkins and Jordan Peterson, two big beasts of the performing sage circuit. They discuss the Bible, or more specifically, Peterson’s latest study of its contents in his new book, We Who Wrestle With God.

Dawkins, looking increasingly bemused, quietly but repeatedly asks Peterson if he really believes in the virgin birth or whether Cain and Abel actually existed, and Canada’s best-known controversial psychologist responds with a series of ever more excitable exegeses of the biblical text.

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