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Joe Rogan: “The least connected, most lost people I know are atheists.”

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Joe Rogan Discusses Texas Politics and Christian Nationalism with State Representative

Published July 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 2:10:07

Why are we all here on this floating rock out in the middle of a vast infinite universe? The least connected, most lost people I know are atheists. And that is really weird to me. It's really weird. These people that reject religion for whatever reason, they seem less connected and less engaged with reality. It's very strange. (2:10:07–2:10:13)

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Asserts that atheists are the least connected and most lost individuals he knows.

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“There's people right now that are on Social Security that are getting their Social Security docked [to pay for student loan debt].”
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“The idea that you can't escape [student loan debt] even with bankruptcy is so sick.”
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“They may have a reasonable income of 170, $200,000 a year, but yet they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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“It's always interesting to see a person who is a Christian, who is not for [the display] of the Ten Commandments in schools.”
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“Is this even in private schools?”
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“We've always had a separation of church and state. It's been very important.”
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“Imposing this on kids in school, in non-religious schools just seems kind of crazy.”
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“Where does this rejection of gay rights come from?”
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“Is it in the Old Testament?”
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“Well, what do you think it meant in the Old Testament, though? If you're looking at a literal translation of it, a man lying with another…”
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“Has the potential to be a person.”
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“They don't have the potential to be a full grown human being.”
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“Most Americans probably would agree [that a woman or a girl should have the autonomy to make those decisions about their own body].”
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“Most Americans are very uncomfortable with the concept of late term abortions.”
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“There are exceptions to [late-term abortions being performed only to save the life of the mother].”
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“Roe vs. Wade was a federal thing and it was supposed to be up to the states to make their own decisions.”
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“There was also the thing where they were trying to go after women that traveled to other states, right?”
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“If a woman travels to see her in-laws or her parents or something like that and then has a miscarriage, that to me was very creepy.”
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“There's this narrative that this is a Christian nation, it was founded as a Christian nation.”
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“It's not going to be done on TikTok. It's not going to be done. Dedicating yourself to just off and scrolling and playing video games and…”
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“Is the rules, they're trying to keep people that are non citizens from being able to vote, right?”
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“That does happen, though, right?”
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“Shouldn't there be zero? Should there be zero?”
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“And young people are more likely to vote progressive and liberal.”
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“I think that's because a lot of young people felt very disenfranchised by some of the laws that were being passed by the previous…”
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“Well, there's a lot of people that just want the government to take care of them.”
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“Most people in this country right now are working check to check. They're living paycheck to paycheck.”
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“I think there's going to be an upheaval the likes of which we have never seen before.”
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“If we were really a Christian nation, we would forgive student loan debt.”
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“The idea that we have put education that may or may not be even helpful for you in the future and may just be complete nonsense.”
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“Algorithms only work because people do engage with the things that piss them off the most.”
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“My friend Ari did this experiment once where on YouTube, he only looked up videos of puppies for like a long time. That was his whole feed…”
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“Authenticity is the thing that's missing from television news.”
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“You can't bullshit people in this world of no bullshit. And that's the podcast world.”
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“This is a big aspect of social media, is constantly attacking people that disagree with you. I reject that.”
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“Processed information is bad for you.”
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“Mark Andreessen had this very interesting way of describing what's going on with people that it's akin to cult like rituals.”
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“Today they just finally said there's no client list, there's no videos.”
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“Who funds it? Duo serves. Yep. Dan and Ferris Wilkes. Daily Wire was launched in 2015. Billionaire petroleum industry brothers.”
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“It would be a tremendous tax benefit to everybody, tremendous revenue benefit to the state.”
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