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About a year and a half ago<\/a> I wrote a post speculating about different possibilities for Latter-day Saints going on Joe Rogan. Well, yesterday we finally got one<\/a>, Dan McLellan of Data over Dogma fame. Dan used to work for the Church in their translation department, and while he very occasionally defends our Latter-day Saint theological eccentricities <\/a>\u00a0against attacks by Evangelical types, he is also on the record as not believing in LDS truth claims.<\/p>\n In terms of the interview, I used the “Ask Gemini” function to tell me the timestamps where he talks about Mormonism: “Dan McClellan discusses joining the LDS Church<\/i> (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at the age of 20 (0:46:01). He shares how his decision to serve a two-year mission in Uruguay<\/i> sparked his passion for studying the Bible, its history, and ancient languages, which eventually led him to pursue a career as a biblical scholar (0:46:04 – 0:46:37)” (and yes, I confirmed those timestamps).<\/p>\n So it doesn’t look like the Church really came up much. I listened to the first bit while doing dishes last night, and I haven’t finished it, but you could tell Rogan was going in his typical direction of “isn’t is so weird that these civilization were so advanced, wink wink” and Dan pushed back.<\/p>\n On one hand I totally called it, but on the other hand I noted in my prognostication last year that Dan is left-wing enough he might very well might not appear on Rogan out of principle, so I got that wrong. So welcome to the manosphere Dan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About a year and a half ago I wrote a post speculating about different possibilities for Latter-day Saints going on Joe Rogan. Well, yesterday we finally got one, Dan McLellan of Data over Dogma fame. Dan used to work for the Church in their translation department, and while he very occasionally defends our Latter-day Saint theological eccentricities \u00a0against attacks by Evangelical types, he is also on the record as not believing in LDS truth claims. In terms of the interview, I used the “Ask Gemini” function to tell me the timestamps where he talks about Mormonism: “Dan McClellan discusses joining the LDS Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) at the age of 20 (0:46:01). He shares how his decision to serve a two-year mission in Uruguay sparked his passion for studying the Bible, its history, and ancient languages, which eventually led him to pursue a career as a biblical scholar (0:46:04 – 0:46:37)” (and yes, I confirmed those timestamps). So it doesn’t look like the Church really came up much. I listened to the first bit while doing dishes last night, and I haven’t finished it, but you could tell Rogan was going in his typical direction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":54774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/X1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54767"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54777,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54767\/revisions\/54777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}