Depth of Belief

A circular argument about how I believe in belief.

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alright, this one may get weird. I'm pretty sure it's not going to land with everyone.

Let's try it anyway.

I understand that he's controversial (I suspect he's nowhere near as terrible or wonderful as people want me to believe, though), but I enjoyed a video I saw of Jordan Peterson talking about whether or not he believes in God. He says he thinks he believes in God but is not entirely sure because he doesn't do everything a person should do if they genuinely believed in a God.

I think he's talking about the strange way that we as humans can believe in something and still not take every step possible to follow that belief out as far as it goes. This is because there are different depths of belief, which is natural and normal. It's only a problem when we profess to ourselves or others that we believe in something in a deeper way than we do.

That's two weird paragraphs in a row. Let's see if we can break this down.