The world’s number one podcaster, Joe Rogan, continued exploring his own faith during a very honest segment where he sat down as the guest rather than fill the hosting duties. As the conversation explored the future of technology, Rogan backed up and described what gave life real meaning.
Asked about becoming more religious and attending church – not always the same thing but in the case of Rogan it lines up – the host of the Joe Rogan Experience said he felt like the Bible communicated truths and distanced himself from the idea that the stories contained with the world’s most famous book were just storytales and myths. He would later comment that the Christians he met were simply the “nicest f*cking people” he knew.
First commenting on the Bible and the stories found within it, he said the authors were describing reality and truth. “I think they’re relaying a truth. I don’t think it’s myth. I don’t think the whole thing is myth.”
He later couched this comment by noting some of the foretelling that takes place, particularly in the Book of Revelations didn’t jive with him and that a reading of any biblical passage has to be understood as this point as being a translation and not necessarily the original intent. “But I don’t think it’s entirely accurate, either, you know, like when I was having a conversation with my daughter about the Book of Revelations, because they were reading the Book of Revelations, and they were talking about how it’s all going to happen, how it’s going to end.”
“And I said, Well, let me tell you something. There’s no way that guy telling you that knows that he might be reading the text. And that text, by the way, is a translation. It’s an English translation of probably either Latin or Greek, which was originally ancient Hebrew, like, there a lot is lost in text, and a lot is lost also in the oral tradition.”
Rogan then brought up one of his favorite topics, that being a growingly plausible cause of the famous flood described in Genesis when Noah saves his family while the rest of humanity perishes. “Do I want to sit down with her and talk about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory? It’s like, it’s like, but I’m like, There’s no way that guy knows it might be true. It might be true, but there’s no way he knows it’s true because he’s just a person. He’s a person like, you’re me, that is like deeply involved in the Scripture.”
Rogan finished his remarks by observing how, regardless of his own thoughts on the veracity of the every biblical reference, the end result was that the people who believed it were good. “The scripture, to me, is what’s interesting. It’s fascinating that that is what and also that Christianity, at least, is the only thing I have experience with. It works like the people that are Christians, that go to this church, that I go to, that I meet, that are Christian, they are the nicest f*cking people you will ever meet.
Not done, he said of the people at his church: “They’re really kind, and they’re even more nice at a church when you leave a church parking lot, everybody lets you go in front of them. There’s no one honking in the church parking lot. It works. So regardless of whether or not it’s based on an entirely true story, I think it is an ancient relaying of a real event and of the real history of human beings.”
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