The CEO of Telsa posted a video on his X handle sharing his view about religion, he stated that religion is something people used to fill vacuum, emphasizing that religious people resist change and other people’s opinions.
He compared religion to physics where you have to question all of your projects, especially if it does not produce the desired result. He referred to religion as a ‘woke mind virus’
According to his interview on TCN: “Nature abhors a vacuum and when you have essentially a decline in religion, an increase in the secular nature of society, for most people, they need something to fill that void and so they adopt religion.
“It’s not called a religion but effectively like the ‘woke mind virus’, it takes the place of religion and they internalize it and they fill it with religious fervor and rigidity. And they essentially conduct like a holy war effectively. It is just not called a religion, but it’s a religion, sort of a work, holy war and they are highly resistance to change, as is normal for religions.
“Now for myself, I see myself as an engineer physicist, for me, I am culturally Christian, I grew up Christian, I mean I was Anglican, was baptized, I went to Sunday school, oddly enough, I was sent to Hebrew preschool and Anglican Sunday school at the same time, which you know if you are five years old, its fine.
“I’m not Jewish, it’s just my father two partner in his engineering firm were, they went to the same Hebrew preschool and it was near our house, so I just got sent there.
“Maybe this will make me even more amazing, but I have trouble sort of believing all these religious stories but a lot of people do and I respect people who want to have religious views, I am not trying to dissuade them from their religious view.
“I guess the sort of operating system I have is sort of a physics engineering operating system where I try to understand as much as possible about reality
“In physics, you are not supposed to believe anything absolutely, you are supposed to question things, that’s how you discover new physics in engineering, that’s how you will discover if your machine will work or not ? Will the rocket get to orbit?
“If you feel a rocket is designed with physics in mind correctly, it will get to orbit and if it is not, it will not get to orbit , no matter what your believe system is.” Musk added