Elon Musk is a billionaire, a public figure, a philanthropist, an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur, and a religious convert. He was recently interviewed by Jordan Peterson for the Daily Wire, and since then, he has been making moves to become a Catholic. This is the only way he can fulfill his vow to destroy the Woke Mind Virus.
00:03:44.160You said a lot of very interesting things in that interview.
00:03:48.120But none as moving and as powerful as that.
00:03:52.960We at LifeSite News are so sorry for the loss you described.
00:03:57.520I'm here to give you what you need in your crusade for justice to avenge what you called the death of your son, Xavier, following his so-called gender transition.
00:04:11.820I guess, in light of that, people can understand better why you took Gavin Newsom's controversial student gender identity law so seriously to the point of closing X or Twitter and SpaceX's headquarters in California.
00:04:28.060Let's see what you said in that interview.
00:04:29.960I mean, you said you're going to move a couple of your company headquarters out of California because of the last legislative move.
00:05:36.500In fact, given your personal passion about the transgender movement, take a look at what Candace Owens has to say about its links with Satanism.
00:06:31.620So, imagine, the devil, he identifies as transgender as that image.
00:06:37.760Candice goes on to say, as is common knowledge, that Satanists worship Satan under the guise and name of Baphomet, the transgender goat devil, that they do so with horrible sexual rituals.
00:06:53.080She plays some clips of Hollywood and music celebrities talking about the grotesque things they had to do in relation to this Baphomet devil in order to get where they are today.
00:07:06.880What I can tell you for certain, right now, if you are not awake to the fact that we are once again in a very severe spiritual battle, and I am talking about angels versus demons, let me tell you something.
00:07:20.800If you are fighting demons without recognizing that they are, in fact, demons, then it's the figurative knife to the gunfight.
00:07:29.120You are bringing a knife to a gunfight.
00:07:31.100They have used decades of psychology, education, Hollywood idols, and scientific theories of evolution and enlightenment to draw us further and further from the truth.
00:07:59.680But I must say, it's pretty strange to hear you talking about the evil of what the trans movement is doing to your children.
00:08:06.980When your own profile picture outfit is you in a Halloween costume from 2022, that red suit of armor emblazoned with an image of Satan as a goat-headed transgender demon, not to mention the upside-down cross on the back.
00:08:26.280Perhaps you haven't been aware of Baphomet and haven't really considered the demonic aspect of the evil you want to fight in this world.
00:08:33.180But as the richest man in the world, or potentially the richest man, in a truly unique situation, you would have to be very naive to think that the devil isn't aware of you and delighted to see you in such a costume, even if it was just for Halloween.
00:08:53.220Let me assure you, transgender Baphomet doesn't want the good of your son Xavier.
00:08:59.780He doesn't want to help you avenge him or use your considerable power, wealth, and skills to destroy the woke mind virus.
00:09:09.620The true God can do all that and much more.
00:09:14.600But there's more that the true God has to offer you.
00:09:19.680The true God who loves you, Elon Musk.
00:09:22.660He loves you very much and he loves your children and he wants to see the best for you and for your children.
00:09:27.240It was clear in that interview and throughout your career that you have this amazing thirst for truth and understanding.
00:09:36.260You've been truly blessed by God with an amazing intelligence and industry like almost no one else on earth.
00:09:43.860The true God has the power to offer you all of that and to affirm and confirm every good in what you already think and believe and to provide help for the questions and answers that have driven your lifelong quest for truth.
00:10:01.400Before I explain, let's hear again what you said to Peterson about what your own philosophy or religion is.
00:10:10.800Well, I mean, I should perhaps go back to what is the foundation of my philosophy.
00:10:15.560Because that I think helps build up, you know, to explain my actions.
00:10:25.940So when I was, I don't know, about 11 or 12 years old, I had somewhat of an existential crisis because there just didn't seem to be any meaning in the world.
00:10:41.140Like I had no meaning to life. And so I actually read, try to read all the religious texts.
00:11:28.060In fact, we don't even know what the right questions are to ask.
00:11:31.160It seems to me that you were intimating that your discovery through Adams, that the question was the thing, was key to the resolution of your existential crisis.
00:11:57.240Well, I was a lot happier after that, because now it's like, okay, well, I'm just going to accept that we are ignorant of a great many things.
00:12:06.300And we wish to be less ignorant. And anything we can do that will improve our understanding of the universe and make us less ignorant and have a deeper understanding of the universe and even what questions to answer, to ask about the answer to that as the universe, which is, I think, Adams' central point, is good.
00:12:26.700And that was good enough to resolve that crisis.
00:12:31.260And so, like, is this a religion? I don't know. Maybe it is. But I think it's a good one. I'd call it the religion of curiosity.
00:12:37.980It seems that there are few people in the public eye who have such humility.
00:12:43.620When it comes to the understanding of the universe, it's much more typical to hear people like Richard Dawkins, who came up in that debate, talking as if science has the capacity to explain everything in the world.
00:12:56.820Let's take a listen to what Dawkins said about a similar question.
00:13:00.280I think that the world is explained fully by science or will be explained fully by science. There is no evidence for any kind of supernatural being of any kind. And so that it goes against the spirit of science to put your trust in the supernatural when the natural explanation is there and so much more fun and so much more exciting and so much more interesting.
00:13:24.280Even though you say that, still people believe.
00:13:27.620Well, a lot of people don't know the facts. A lot of people are simply ignorant of science. And that's no fault of theirs. It's probably the fault of us scientists.
00:13:35.500Did you catch that he contradicted himself a few times there? The world is explained fully by science, but actually isn't fully explained yet. The natural explanation is there and it's more fun and exciting than anything supernatural.
00:13:49.060Except it isn't actually there yet, but it will be one day.
00:13:52.020Religious people don't believe this because they don't know the facts and are ignorant of what actually hasn't been found yet.
00:14:00.460And all they have to do is trust that one day this complete naturalistic explanation will arrive.
00:16:34.240But, for example, a lot of people find happiness and contentment with adventure like climbing tall mountains or hiking along trails, doing, going, you know, exploring the wilderness and that kind of thing.
00:16:49.460And I've never really found, personally, found it compelling to, say, climb Mount Everest.
00:17:15.360To deepen our understanding of the nature of the universe.
00:17:19.100At one point in your interview with Peterson, he seems to think that you were lapsing into agnosticism, as if it were impossible to ever actually find the truth.
00:17:28.900As you rightly said, our seemingly unstoppable potential to go on finding new questions to ask about the universe doesn't mean that we can never find definitive answers for these questions.
00:17:42.640My own namesake, Cardinal John Henry Newman, the great 19th century English convert, summed it up like this, and I quote,
00:17:50.200Skepticism is the refusal to be satisfied with reasons which ought to satisfy.
00:17:55.280To be skeptical is to be unreasonable, end quote.
00:18:04.820It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things, just so far as the nature of the subject admits, end quote.
00:18:15.020What he meant by that, he said, is that we should expect mathematical certainty when dealing with mathematics.
00:18:20.660But it would be foolish to look for that kind of certainty when dealing with subjects that simply don't admit of that kind of certainty,
00:18:28.260and to treat mathematical certainty as the only kind of certainty there is.
00:18:33.140And this doesn't just apply to little questions about things that are measurable under the microscope.
00:18:38.060We can have certainty about even the biggest questions there are, like, why am I here?
00:18:56.420This isn't, perhaps, the time to go into great depths, perhaps, in explaining how it is that we can know that these things are indeed the right questions,
00:19:08.080nor what the questions are, or how we know them.
00:30:46.640But because it is the religion of God made man and the body of Christ, it cannot perish.
00:30:53.640But it will perish in different countries if people abandon it or indeed treat it as just some philosophy or collection of great tenets and axioms and things like that.
00:31:05.640It will perish in the places where it is not believed.
00:31:10.640And you talked about that too in your interview.
00:31:13.640And on that note, we could return to the question of why.
00:31:17.640If what I've said about Christianity is true, why is there still evil in the world?
00:31:23.640Well, for a start, let's say that when we are united to Christ as members of his body, we are still in the process of being sanctified, of being made holy.
00:31:34.640And we are still at war with the forces of evil in this world.
00:31:41.640You can't be at war with an enemy that isn't fighting you.
00:31:46.640There will always be more or less evil in the world until the end of time.
00:31:52.640And you yourself said it in the interview.
00:31:54.640Why the evil of antinatalism, the idea that the world is overpopulated, is in the world.
00:32:01.640You talked about how this idea takes hold and its catastrophic effects on society.
00:32:08.640But you also put your finger on one of the causes of this antinatalism and how this evil grows when religion, at least in general, is abandoned.
00:32:22.640I think there is an argument that when a culture loses its religion that it starts to become antinatalist and decline in numbers and potentially disappear.
00:32:40.640Elon, taken in the abstract, religion refers to everything we must believe and all the duties which we must fulfill toward God.
00:32:48.640You might also be right that religion in the abstract has generally provided an impetus towards certain correct tenets of the natural law.
00:32:58.640But the fact is that God has revealed himself personally to mankind.
00:33:02.640This is about the person of Jesus Christ.
00:33:05.640And that, because of this, we are all obliged to seek out that true religion and accept it, to accept him, to embrace Jesus Christ himself.
00:33:16.640Who loves you? Who waits for you? Who calls you by name, Elon?
00:33:47.640The way to reverse this, all the evils you talked about in your interview, the evils of trans kids movement, of antinatalism or ignorance and the whole woke mind virus.
00:34:01.640The way to reverse all this is not to return to Christian axiomatic assumptions or to a few Christian moral precepts, but to return to Jesus Christ himself.
00:34:17.640Let's end with your own ending of that interview.
00:34:21.640You know, I think like one of the tests for, you know, assessing someone's character is to look at the character of their friends and their associates.