Posted on 12/17/2025 9:24:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Quick, get this man a copy of Return of the God Hypothesis. Elon Musk in an interview with Katie Miller:
KATIE MILLER: Who do you look up to the most?
ELON: The Creator.
MILLER: What’s your position on God?
ELON: God is the Creator.
MILLER: You don’t believe in God though, do you?
ELON: Well, I believe this universe came from something. People have different labels.
It’s the season of the unexpected convert, isn’t it? Obviously, I have no privileged information about where if anywhere Musk has landed in any hypothetical spiritual search. But he went out on a limb in saying this. I don’t know that he knows the full weight of the scientific basis for the claim he’s making, but of course it’s laid out in great detail in Stephen Meyer’s book. There should have been obvious follow-up questions for Musk: What do you mean by a Creator and why does the existence of the universe necessarily mean it was “created” purposefully? Plenty of atheists, including smart ones, look at that same fact of existence and shrug.
Unfortunately, Ms. Miller’s follow-up was, “When’s the last time you did something extremely ordinary like go to Target or CVS?”
I remember Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently, an unexpected and public convert in the true sense, citing weak evidence for her own theism in a conversation with Richard Dawkins and being gently chastised for it by Dawkins. He said, “Now, I think that the hypothesis of theism is the most exciting scientific hypothesis you could possibly hold.”
He didn’t mean that he embraces the hypothesis — you would have heard about that! He meant that the design of the cosmos is a scientific idea, whether right or wrong, to be weighed as science.
Musk has more than enough smarts to evaluate that evidence for himself, once he has got it in front of him. I’d much rather hear about the results of such an evaluation by him than I would about the last time he shopped at Target.
Nothing Earth-shattering.
Many key Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison held significant deistic views, believing in a rational Creator who set the universe in motion but doesn’t intervene in human affairs, influencing their push for religious freedom and separation of church and state, though not all founders shared these views, with some remaining orthodox Christians.
Benjamin Franklin calls himself a deist, but then encourages people to pray. That doesn’t sound like believing in a Creator who does not intervene in human affairs.
I would say that Ben Franklin’s views were complex. He was a self‑described deist who questioned orthodox Christianity, yet he often invoked prayer and divine guidance in public life — most famously at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when he urged delegates to begin each day’s session with prayer.
Sounds like a variation of the same philosophy as John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
I am team Musk.
YES, Elon is a believer.
I have a video on my phone of Musk talking with Jesus about Marvin, his dying dog and what happens him and to other animaqls when they die.
I was really surprised and impressed with the intensity of Elon’s belief.
He has several other videos pniine about his belief and what he learned from God. I found them quite touching and believable.
Uo can never prove there is a GOD....but you can never prove there isn’t a GOD.
Well, Franklin knew prayer puts you in a certain kind of mindset. Given what they were trying to do, he thought that would be a good mindset to be in while framing the country’s political system and wanting it to be stable, rational and one that wouldn’t fall for a long time, if ever.
How would he know what happens to animals when they die? It’s not mentioned in the Bible.
Well, in the New Kingdom the lion will lay down with the lamb - just like they used to in the Garden of Eden. But I don’t know know.
The founding fathers referred to Deity as Divine Providence.
It was a profound aspect to which that most all of them related, one way or another.
That fact allowed them to create a nation based on the natiral rights of men yu virtue of Divine Providence.
That changed the biblical idea of “kingship” of the entire earth.
We will never have a distict conclusion about it, because the nature of Divine Providence is energy, without form, that impacts the behaviour of mankind . Call it what you may. There are innumerable ways of relating to that.But as Americans we generally know what it is.We will have a Republic as long as that remains the case.
I don’t know to which video you refer, but beware -— there are AI videos on YouTube of Musk talking about being a believer, that are completely fake. As AI is refined, I believe it will be nigh unto impossible for us to tell the difference, and I believe this is exactly what Jesus was talking about when He said even the elect could be deceived.
You, we, all of us, make it, whether or not we want to.
It's not so much if Elon believes in the Almighty, though, given all the blessings he has received, it would be tremendously comical and even Biblical if Elon did not believe. (I am thinking of the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man.)
But you can be sure that the Almighty believes in Elon. And all that that entails.
>> ELON: “Well, I believe this universe came from something. People have different labels”... It’s the season of the unexpected convert, isn’t it?
It takes a LOT of faith to believe that there is no GOD.
“...God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.”
[Romans 1:18,19 NLT]
Unless it is actually him speaking then beware of such vids. One has Clint Eastwood speaking about him being converted. Not at all verified.
So he’s a little agnostic? Big deal. Does it matter to us?
Interesting. After reading your comment, I looked at his X account and don’t see anything similar. Then I searched online for Musk’s religious beliefs. Very slim pickings indeed. Bit he did have a dog that died.
You’re right. No more Elon videos or statements unless I see them on X.
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