Jordan Peterson Is an Atheist After All

He claims God is fiction

Sheng-Ta Tsai
5 min readNov 16, 2022
Jordan Peterson; photo by Gage Skidmore on Wikimedia Commons

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist, author, and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. His YouTube channel has almost six million subscribers. He often speaks on controversial subjects such as politics and religion. I think it is fair to say that many Christians like him because he calls young people to go to church and argues that Western civilization is established on Judeo-Christian ethics. He also criticizes atheism for lacking a unifying ethical foundation for society.

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From the description above, you might think he is most likely a Christian. Why else would he promote Christian faith and values the way he does publicly?

But curiously, he never directly says he is a Christian, even when pressed. His way of dodging questions about his personal belief vexes a lot of interviewers and debate opponents.

In one of his tweets in 2021, he says:

Do I believe in God? I act as if God exists.

Ok …

Fortunately, in one of his recent podcasts (link below), we can piece together whether he believes God exists or not. The answer is he does NOT.

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Sheng-Ta Tsai

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