I believe Dr. Peterson was raised in a Christian home, and, like so many others, pursued higher education, which would have set him on a different path. I happen to think that Dr. Peterson is on a journey and will come back to the faith of his childhood....and won’t he be a powerful witness when he does! In the meantime, he is challenging the twisted thinking of many on the left, so I applaud him.
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My understanding is that his “higher education” was actually instrumental in breaking him from socialism.
He quit going to church when he was between 12 and 14 and started hanging out with a group of socialists. He continued his association through active participation in socialist groups at college where he began to really study socialism in the 20th Century.
He discovered the horrors of Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and others and started to realize what he was saying about socialism did not correspond with how he felt about it inside. This caused him to turn away from it and now he is a staunch anti-socialist.
The above is a very incomplete summary but I believe it accurately portrays his youth/early 20’s.