Joe Rogan doesn’t buy the ‘Christianity is a fairy tale’ argument

Podcaster Joe Rogan noted earlier this week that he enjoys going to church and pushed back against “self-professed intelligent people” who dismiss the Bible as myth.

During the Wednesday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” with guest Konstantin Kisin, a Russian-British political commentator who said he “loves” going to church, Rogan said he feels the identical and finds it encouraging when he’s with Christians who’re working to higher understand the Bible.

“It’s a bunch of folks that are going to attempt to make their lives higher, attempting to be a greater person,” he said of church. “I mean, for me — at the very least the place that I am going to — they read and analyze passages within the Bible. I’m really curious about what these people were attempting to say, because I do not think it’s nothing.”

Rogan suggested “atheists and secular people” who dismiss the Bible as fiction will not be as intelligent as they imagine themselves to be.

“I hear that amongst self-professed intelligent people, prefer it’s a fairy tale,” he said. “I do not know that is true. I feel I feel there’s more to it. I feel it’s history, but I feel it is a confusing history. It’s a confusing history since it was a protracted time ago, and it’s people telling things in an oral tradition and writing things down in a language that you simply don’t understand, within the context of a culture that you simply don’t understand.”

Explaining that he believes “there’s something to it,” Rogan went on to say that Christianity is “essentially the most fascinating” of the world’s religions since it centers on the person of Jesus Christ.

“Christianity particularly is essentially the most fascinating to me, because there’s this one individual that everybody agrees existed, that one way or the other or one other had the perfect plan for the way human beings should interact with one another and behave,” he said.

Rogan suggested that he’s fascinated by the incontrovertible fact that Christ suffered and died, despite being “the perfect example” of how human beings should behave.

“[He] didn’t even protest,” he said. “Died on the cross, supposedly for our sins. It’s an interesting story. What does it represent, though? That’s the true thing. What was that? What happened? Who was Jesus Christ, if it was a human being. What was that? That’s wild.”

When Kisin noted that the story of Jesus could possibly be seen as a metaphor for “voluntary self-sacrifice” intended to encourage a greater society, Rogan observed that the historical reality of Jesus as a human being is unavoidable.

“It’s a historically documented human being, that is where it gets weird,” he said. “Because there is a universal depiction of what this human being was like. That doesn’t seem to differ that much between all of the folks that knew Him. That gets weird.”

Rogan has increasingly mentioned Christianity on his podcast inside the past 12 months. In January, he hosted Christian apologist Wes Huff for an intensive conversation about faith, Jesus and the supernatural claims of the Bible.

In May, Huff revealed that Rogan had begun attending church often, and that the 2 have remained involved because the spoke on the podcast.

“That has been a consistent thing,” Huff said of Rogan’s church attendance.

That same month, Rogan expressed skepticism in regards to the Big Bang theory’s explanation of the universe’s origin, noting that he finds the concept of the Resurrection more plausible.

“It’s funny, because people might be incredulous in regards to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet, they’re convinced that the complete universe was smaller than a head of a pin and that for no reason that anyone has adequately explained to me, instantaneously became all the things? OK,” he said.

“I’m sticking with Jesus on that one,” he later added. “Jesus makes more sense. People have come back to life.”

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