Jordan Peterson VS Candace Owens - Jesus, Algorithms and the Nones

Описание: he Peterson → Owens shift, Jesus-coded language, algorithms, and the Nones.

In the IDW era, the “meaning crisis” debates (Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris, religion vs secularism, truth vs utility) felt like philosophy theater with real cultural stakes. In 2026, those stakes got higher — because now the algorithm is not a neutral stage. It’s a selection machine. It doesn’t reward what’s wise. It rewards what spreads.

This episode kicks off Part 1 of the series by tracing a shift in the online Christian ecosystem: from Peterson’s civilizational, meaning-oriented “Christianity as psychological technology” toward a more aggressive, identity-fused, spiritual-warfare style of Christian discourse — where “good vs evil” rhetoric isn’t metaphor anymore, it becomes a social sorting machine.

We’ll use two archetypes to make it concrete:
• Jordan Peterson (2018): high moral certainty, but still humanizing opponents — a “meaning” register that could, at its best, point toward compassion and responsibility.
• Candace Owens (2026): viral, participatory narrative construction — where audiences aren’t just informed, they’re deputized into a cosmic plot, and enemies aren’t wrong… they’re demonic.

The point isn’t “who’s right,” and it’s definitely not a metaphysical proof-off. The point is systems: what Christian-coded moral language does when it hits the engagement layer, how it recruits, how it escalates, and why the “gentle” IRL container can get cannibalized by the “brand” version online.

And we’re not ignoring the load-bearing constraint: the Nones. The unaffiliated aren’t a rounding error — they’re a major formation. Any revival pitch that recenters Christian language as the default civic interface risks selecting out exactly the plural coalition required for a durable commons.

If you’ve been feeling the return of the religion discourse online and thinking “wait… this is 2018 again, but darker,” welcome. This series is an attempt to map the terrain clearly — and then talk design: anti-capture mechanisms, seams between IRL formation and online coordination, and what a practice-first pluralistic alternative could look like.

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