Joe Rogan, Kid Rock, Bigfoot… and the Resurrection
An excerpt from a recent article
The Acton Institute recently featured an article by Dan Hugger that interacts with my book Did the Resurrection Really Happen? Here’s a quick excerpt:
A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s most popular podcasts, The Joe Rogan Experience, the host Joe Rogan asked the musician Kid Rock, “If you could go to one place, where would you go? If you had one shot, you could go back in time once and survive and come back to the future, where would you go?”
Kid Rock’s answer was simple and direct, “Jesus.”
Rogan took in the answer for a moment and then asked, “But what if there was nobody there?”
At this point, Kid Rock’s eyes [lit up] with excitement: “Even better! I get him all to myself, just me and Jesus!”
Rogan then attempted to rein in the enthusiasm by clarifying: “No I mean what if Jesus wasn’t there. Do you think there’s a real Jesus?”
Kid Rock’s answer was, once more, simple and direct, “Absolutely, one thousand percent.”
Rogan then followed up: “What makes you convinced?”
Without skipping a beat, Kid Rock replies, “My faith.”
That answer is a natural one for believers. For most Christians most of the time, the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a given. The sun rises in the morning, sugar is sweet, and Jesus lives and reigns. Such faith seems unnatural even to the most sympathetic of skeptics.
Yet the sympathetic Joe Rogan is genuinely impressed by Kid Rock’s answer and says so, explaining, “I mean, that’s a good answer.” But then he pauses, thinks, and finally muses, “I always wonder when people are telling stories, though, like how long did that story take place before people wrote it down? How many times did people alter it, just like they do with everything today? I got to imagine that at a certain point in time, in history, they probably didn’t tell the truth about a lot of things.”
Read the rest of the article here: “Joe Rogan, Kid Rock, Bigfoot… and the Resurrection.”