Religion on the Joe Rogan Experience

9 fact-checked claims across 6 episodes · Nov 2016 to Jan 2025 · updated Jul 18, 2026

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  1. we got a pope that brought a South American idol into the church to worship. The Pachamama.

    Gibson claims Pope Francis brought a South American idol (Pachamama) into the church to worship, characterizing it as apostasy.

  2. No native of Lourdes has ever been cured. And the chances that a person is going to be healed there

    Weil claims no native resident of Lourdes has ever been healed there, and that the odds of being healed are directly proportional to the length of the journey to reach it.

  3. In 1950, Dr. King wrote a paper called The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity. You can Google it.

    Muraresku claims Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a 1950 paper titled 'The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity.'

  4. It kills 50,000 Philistines in the city of Ashdod when they briefly capture it from the Israelites and make the mistake of treating it like a tourist object an…

    The Old Testament describes the Ark of the Covenant killing 50,000 Philistines in Ashdod with cancerous tumors after they captured and opened it.

  5. the shamanic experience which is replicable cross-culturally and which dominated the human landscape for at least 20 000 years we know that it involves a

    Peterson claims it is established knowledge that shamanic religious experience dominated human culture worldwide for at least 20,000 years.

  6. And everybody cheered and they went crazy. And then about a half an hour later, black smoke came out. That never in history has that happened, that the white s…

    Gibson claims that during the 1958 papal conclave, white smoke (signaling a new pope) was followed by black smoke, an event he says had never happened before in history.

  7. Also, the weave was a 1st century weave that was typical. And another guy, an archeologist who I knew who actually translated the passion in Aramaic, told me t…

    Gibson claims the Shroud of Turin has a first-century weave pattern and that faint images of a Tiberius-era coin are visible over the eyes of the figure.

  8. But the New Testament, of course, was constructed by Constantine and a series of bishops. They took things out. They added things.

    Peterson claims the New Testament was constructed by Roman Emperor Constantine and a group of bishops who added and removed material.

  9. So it says study published in the journal heritage. The authors conducted dating work on a sample from the shroud coming to the conclusion that it may be a 200…

    Rogan reads aloud a study claiming new dating work suggests the Shroud of Turin could be a 2,000-year-old relic consistent with Jesus' era.