#12559 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered:

02:40 – If a pagan god were to meet Jesus and convert to Christianity, would they go to heaven if they died?
13:11 – As far as I understand it, current physics tells us that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light since, if it did, you would (among other problems) get paradoxes. However, it seems like an angel could convey information faster than light. For example, Aquinas argues that an angel, in moving from place A to place B, can choose whether it traverses the space in between those places or not. Thus, an angel could observe, say, a supernova happening lightyears away from Earth and then travel instantaneously to Earth and tell us about it before the light from the supernova got here. What do you think of this? Should we think that even an angel couldn’t convey information faster than light? Or, should we discard the idea that information can’t be communicated faster than light? Or maybe some third option? Thanks!
23:46 – Your recent episodes on demons and the different beliefs on how people get possessed made me think. Could the dark forces be targeting powerful latent “psychic” individuals? It would fit with your demons being opportunists, and with Amorth’s Curse model. I would like to see a scientific study that would test people who have been validly possessed and exorcised to see if they test higher than a sample group.
35:22 – In the case of Ash Wednesday when fasting and abstinence is required, would receiving communion break one’s fast or count as a smaller meal? In other words, can one receive communion in addition to eating one full meal and two smaller meals? Thanks Jimmy!
39:16 – Let’s say we made contact with an alternate timeline whose divergence point is after the year 100. They have a recognizable continuing Petrine ministry. Does their pope (probably called something else) have immediate and universal jurisdiction in our timeline, and ours in theirs? Are we bound by each other’s infallible declarations of doctrine if we’ve defined something they haven’t, or vice versa?
46:12 – Do stage magicians have actual preternatural gifts?

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0:29.6	Oh, you know what happens when we open with that music.
0:33.6	You are in for a treat. Jimmy Aiken here with us, both ours. And that music means weird questions for Jimmy Aiken.
0:41.5	Jimmy developed the reputation for being willing to take everybody's questions seriously
0:46.7	and give it a fair hearing and a fair answer.
0:49.7	And that has built to, we have what we might call a Jimmy Aiken question.
0:55.1	As a matter of fact, lots of people say, that's a Jimmy Aiken question when people ask about
0:58.4	anything that's paranormal or alien or in that range.
1:06.5	We call it a Jimmy Aiken question.
1:08.1	Jimmy, of course, is the host of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Weird questions today, and they're all in. Hello, Jimmy Aiken question. Jimmy, of course, the host of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.
1:29.0	Weird questions today, and they're all in. Hello, Jimmy Aiken. Thanks for being here. How do you, Cicillet? How are you doing? I am really good. I am ready for some weirdness. Uh-huh. So I don't know how you feel about greeting you with I'm ready for some weirdness, but there it is. That is your uber. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm down with it.
1:31.4	Yeah. about greeting you with I'm ready for some weirdness, but there it is. That is your uver.
1:29.3	I'm, I'm down with it. Yeah. As they say in German, Daskates. They do say that,
1:36.3	that then I never know what they mean when they say that. So what does it mean? Dust gates.
1:41.4	Dust gates means that works. Oh, okay. All right, it works.
1:44.9	We'll get into some weirdness.
2:06.9	I'm delighted. I'm going to get right into it, and then we'll talk a little bit about Jimmy Aiken's mysterious. Look, if you don't know about Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, I do not know what Rock you've been on it. Yeah, but we'll talk about it. Yeah, but you know what? I always like it when people don't know about Jim Eakin's mysterious world because I feel like you've got hundreds of episodes in front of you now.
2:18.4	400 of them now. Is it really 400? Yep. Last week was our 400 episode, numbered episode. We've had some bonus ones too. Yeah. Well, congratulations on that. Thank you. Congratulations on what was the topic for episode 400? Um, it was listeners mysterious experiences.
2:25.4	So people wrote in and said, this is this really strange thing that happened to me. Can you offer
2:30.5	some perspective on it? And then I would. Oh, that's fun. Oh, that's fun.
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