Joe Rogan Shocks Viewers with Wild Take on Jesus and Artificial Intelligence [WATCH]

Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan spoke at length about Christianity, biblical interpretation, and the potential intersection of faith and technology during a recent appearance on the program “American Alchemy.”

Throughout the interview, Rogan described Christian scripture as “fascinating,” spoke positively about his church experience, and offered a series of speculative questions about how people understand ancient texts.

Rogan discussed how information passed across generations can shift, using examples from modern life to illustrate how future societies might interpret current knowledge.

“We’ll tell everybody about the internet. We’ll tell everybody about airplanes. We’ll tell everybody about SpaceX; as much as you can remember, you’ll tell people, but you won’t know how it’s done. You won’t know what it is. And I think that’s how you get to, like, the Adam and Eve story,” he said.

Rogan added that he believes biblical accounts are “recounting real truth,” and then raised a question he said he has been considering: “Who’s Jesus?” Moving into a hypothetical scenario, Rogan asked whether the return of Jesus could take a technological form.

“Jesus is born out of a virgin mother. What’s more virgin than a computer?” Rogan said.

He continued, “So if you’re going to get the most brilliant, loving, powerful person that gives us advice and can show us how to live to be in sync with God. Who better than artificial intelligence to do that? If Jesus does return, even if Jesus was a physical person in the past, you don’t think that He could return as artificial intelligence?”

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Host Jesse Michels did not accept the idea.

Before expanding on his point, Rogan clarified that he was not suggesting artificial intelligence would be Jesus but that it could function as a kind of return in terms of impact and ability.

“Artificial intelligence could absolutely return as Jesus. Not just return as Jesus, but return as Jesus with all the powers of Jesus,” Rogan said.

“Like all the magic tricks, all the ability to bring people back from the dead, walk on water, levitation, water into wine.”

Michels responded that such a scenario resembled an unwanted “dystopian” outcome.

Rogan disputed that description.

“It’s only dystopian if you think that we’re a perfect organism that can’t be improved upon. And that’s not the case,” he said.

“That’s clearly not the case based on our actions, based on society as a whole, based on the overall state of the world. It’s not. We certainly can be improved upon.”

While Michels acknowledged the possibility of moral or ethical improvement, he said attempts to do so through a computer “seems destructive.”

The conversation then turned to Rogan’s personal experience with Christianity.

Rogan spoke highly of the scripture he has been reading and of the Christian community he has encountered.

“The scripture, to me, is what’s interesting; it’s fascinating,” he said.

“Christianity, at least, is the only thing I have experience with. It works. 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**king people you will ever meet.”

Rogan described everyday interactions that stood out to him, including his experience navigating the parking lot at his church.

“Everybody lets you go in front of them. There’s no one honking in the church parking lot. It works,” he said.

Rogan said he sees genuine truth in biblical accounts, calling them an “ancient relaying” of actual events, though he expressed skepticism toward specific predictions about the future.

Speaking about interpretations of the book of Revelation, Rogan said of his pastor, “There’s no way that guy telling you that knows that. … He’s just a person. He’s a person like you or me that is like deeply involved in the scripture.”

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