But I wouldn't consult him on other matters

He's right-wing but only a moderate right-wing

I just know lolbertarians love JP

I'm not sure what he thinks of LGBT

But I think he tends to fall into the general conservative crowd, which can attract lolbertarians too

Ironically, Sargon of Akkad, who is Classical Liberal tends to push people to far-right

JP was actually the fish hook that I took that led me to orthodoxy

I think he's becoming more right-wing though over time

and now orthodoxy is my go-to reference

He does like EO

It was his stuff on symbolism and stories from a evolutionary psychology perspective that got me good

Does he?

But he can't seem to get over the unfortunate modernist position

I think that he wants to believe

but he's too attached to modernism

He does want to believe

But he struggles w/ miracles

He actually *knows* that miracles and weird shit happen

but doesn't want to admit he thinks they happen

he's gestured towards the possibility that they do

Yeah, but he can't explain them with science so....

Science is safe

He's good at science

and knows how it works

enough to see its shortcomings

Yeah, he is, but stuff like the resurrection are hard for him to grapple

That's pretty essential

implying the resurrection is easy for anyone to grapple with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIB05YeMiW8

If you don't believe the resurrection, then we need to become (((J3W5))) and restore the temple

I'm not saying I don't believe in the resurrection

I'm saying that it's not something that's trivial to understand

and he's trying to understand it

Oh, it's certainly impossible to grasp entirely

I think he approaches from modernism though and that's a stumbling block

I think a large part of that may be that he wants to be intelligible to the major audience of who's listening to him

because if he actually went full draditionalisd :DDD then he would be incomprehensible

to the majority

and he is actually appealing to the majority with what he's saying now and laying hooks to explore the more numinous and inexplicable parts of the faith

Yeah, but that has its downsides

early on he described himself as a radical traditionalist