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What an absolute, self-fallating idiot. But then, there's lots of money to be made by pretending to be smart in the right-wing griftosphere; it's not hard, when your slobbering demographic has the collective intelligence of a single snail and the attention of a toddler.
It's also a pretty big self-own to find religion, pseudo or otherwise, problematic. He's basically implying that people with religious zeal are irrational and authoritarian, and that says a lot more about him and his followers than it does about people who follow the science.
He's useful, because he is the lone "expert" they can wield like a club. Peterson will be remembered as having marginally interesting ideas, once upon a time, and descending into paranoid narcissism in his later years.