Rogan says he goes to church, marvels at historical consensus on Jesus Christ
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Podcaster Joe Rogan extolled the virtues of religion, stating that he enjoys going to church and learning about the Bible and its teachings.
during his Interview with “Triggernometry” hosts Three commentators, Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin, have noted the benefits of inner peace and moral certainty that religion provides. Rogan agreed after Kisin noted that he had started going to church services again and was really enjoying it.
“So am I. There’s a group of people who are going to try to make their lives better,” he said. “They’re trying to be a better person, and they’re trying to do that — I mean, at least for me, where I go — they’re reading and analyzing Bible passages. I’m really interested in what these people are trying to say, because I don’t think it’s anything.”
Rogan added that he has seen many self-proclaimed intellectuals mock religion and disparage it as “fairy tales,” suggesting that this is a shallow view of thousands of years of human experience.
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Joe Rogan talked about his experience going to church and learning the Bible. (Joe Rogan Experience YouTube channel)
“There are a lot of atheists and secular people who call Christianity stupid. You know, ‘These are just fairy tales.’ “I hear a lot of self-aware people saying, ‘This is a fairy tale,’” Rogan said.
“Like, I don’t know if that’s true. I think there’s more to it. I think it’s history, but it’s confusing history. It’s confusing history because it was so long ago. And people tell things through oral tradition, and then they write things down in a language you don’t understand in the context of a culture you don’t understand. And I think there’s something to what they’re saying.”
Rogan noted that flood myths are common around the world and that there appears to be scientific evidence for a prehistoric flood caused by comet impacts. He argued that there is clearly some physical evidence for the claims made in the biblical stories.
Rogan particularly praised Jesus Christ, calling him a figure who is both philosophically remarkable and historically valid.
“Christianity in particular is the most fascinating to me because there is one person who everyone agrees exists, who in one way or another has the best plan for how humans should interact and behave with each other, and who is the best example of that, and who even died in a non-violent way, like he didn’t even protest, he supposedly died on the cross for our sins,” Rogan said. “Like, it’s a fascinating story.”
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With the decline of the New Atheist movement in the 2000s, many young people are returning to various denominations of Christianity. (iStock, courtesy of Vasil Dimitrov)
“This is a historically documented person,” Rogan later said, speaking of the uniqueness of the Christian messiah. “This is where it gets weird because there’s a universal description of what this person is like. That doesn’t seem to vary much between the people who know them. This gets weird.”
Francis Foster praised the part of the Roman Catholic Mass in which worshipers wish each other peace, noting how powerful it is when some strangers make a real human connection with a handshake and the words “Peace be with you.”
Rogan agrees what a powerful gesture this is, arguing that people need to be guided by something outside themselves and their whims.
“If you just rely on your whims and do whatever you think morally, then you know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get people who can’t answer the question of whether they should protect an unborn fetus or whether they have human rights,” he said.
“If you have a religion, you say, ‘Wow, that’s a good question.'”
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Russian-British comedian and political commentator Konstantin Kisin noted that he recently went to church and enjoyed it. (Screenshot/Youtube/OxfordUnion)
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Foster recalled the New Atheist movement popular in the early 2000s and its claim that people do not need religion.
“I think this is fundamentally wrong,” he said.
Kisin and Rogan have stated that they were once involved with the New Atheist movement.
“But a lot of those guys fell apart,” Rogan said. “A lot of these guys are being really picky; they don’t seem very enlightened. They don’t look like they’re at peace, which is interesting.”
While Rogan noted that he has met Christians with whom he agrees and disagrees politically, he said they are some of the happiest and kindest people he has ever met.
