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<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\nPeter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, investor, and author best known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir Technologies. A Stanford-educated lawyer turned venture capitalist, he was the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founded Founders Fund, backing companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. Thiel is a leading figure in Silicon Valley, known for his contrarian views on innovation, politics, and the future of technology. Author of Zero to One<\/em>, he advocates for bold, visionary startups. A libertarian-leaning thinker, Thiel has influenced debates on capitalism, competition, and the role of technology in shaping society.<\/p>\n
Christian Background and Influence<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nPeter Thiel was influenced by Ren\u00e9 Girard, a Catholic scholar, during his time at Stanford University, which helped provide “a basis for his Christian faith without the fundamentalism of his parents.”<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>This intellectual approach to Christianity appears to have shaped his ongoing religious engagement.<\/p>\n
\nThe Gospel of the Antichrist: Tech, Prophecy, and the New Eschatology of Power<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nWhen The Washington Post<\/em> published Nitasha Tiku\u2019s expos\u00e9, \u201cInside billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s private lectures<\/strong><\/a>: Warnings of \u2018the Antichrist\u2019 and U.S. destruction,\u201d<\/em> the headlines read like the synopsis of a sci-fi apocalypse. But behind the sensationalism lies something more unsettling: a coherent theology of power, built for the Silicon Valley age.<\/p>\nAccording to recordings obtained by the Post<\/em>, Thiel delivered four private, two-hour lectures this fall under the title \u201cThe Antichrist: A Four-Part Lecture Series.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span> Attendees were instructed to keep the content \u201coff the record.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <\/em>What they heard was not a financial forecast, but a sermon\u2014a worldview that fuses libertarian economics, apocalyptic Christianity, and the gospel of unrestrained innovation.<\/p>\n\u201cIn the 21st century,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Thiel declared, \u201cthe Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It\u2019s someone like Greta or Eliezer.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat\u2019s Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a leading AI safety advocate whom Thiel once funded but now calls \u201cderanged.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> To Thiel, calls for restraint\u2014whether environmental or ethical\u2014aren\u2019t acts of caution but spiritual sabotage. His message is clear: those who question technology\u2019s momentum are not just wrong; they are on the side of the Antichrist.<\/p>\n
\nFaith as Firewall<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\nThis isn\u2019t the first time Thiel has wrapped technological optimism in religious garb. As I noted in my Righteous Caus<\/strong><\/span>e<\/em> essay, \u201cApocalypse Now: Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies, Modern Tech, and the Anti-Christ,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a> his thought has been drifting toward an eschatology where innovation itself becomes the measure of righteousness. The new revelation isn\u2019t about Christ\u2019s return\u2014it\u2019s about civilization\u2019s deliverance through code, capital, and creation.<\/p>\nThiel\u2019s recent lectures, as reported by Tiku, confirm that transformation. He told his listeners that only a religious argument could properly motivate resistance to \u201cthe one world state,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> which he described as an emerging system of surveillance, tax enforcement, and global governance. Rational objections weren\u2019t enough, he said. Only apocalyptic conviction could make people \u201cfind it scary enough.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThis is faith weaponized\u2014not to save souls, but to immunize markets from oversight. For Thiel, belief becomes a firewall against regulation.<\/p>\n
\nThe Silicon Sermon Circuit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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The Gospel of the Antichrist: Tech, Prophecy, and the New Eschatology of Power<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nWhen The Washington Post<\/em> published Nitasha Tiku\u2019s expos\u00e9, \u201cInside billionaire Peter Thiel\u2019s private lectures<\/strong><\/a>: Warnings of \u2018the Antichrist\u2019 and U.S. destruction,\u201d<\/em> the headlines read like the synopsis of a sci-fi apocalypse. But behind the sensationalism lies something more unsettling: a coherent theology of power, built for the Silicon Valley age.<\/p>\nAccording to recordings obtained by the Post<\/em>, Thiel delivered four private, two-hour lectures this fall under the title \u201cThe Antichrist: A Four-Part Lecture Series.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span> Attendees were instructed to keep the content \u201coff the record.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <\/em>What they heard was not a financial forecast, but a sermon\u2014a worldview that fuses libertarian economics, apocalyptic Christianity, and the gospel of unrestrained innovation.<\/p>\n\u201cIn the 21st century,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Thiel declared, \u201cthe Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It\u2019s someone like Greta or Eliezer.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat\u2019s Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a leading AI safety advocate whom Thiel once funded but now calls \u201cderanged.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> To Thiel, calls for restraint\u2014whether environmental or ethical\u2014aren\u2019t acts of caution but spiritual sabotage. His message is clear: those who question technology\u2019s momentum are not just wrong; they are on the side of the Antichrist.<\/p>\n
\nFaith as Firewall<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\nThis isn\u2019t the first time Thiel has wrapped technological optimism in religious garb. As I noted in my Righteous Caus<\/strong><\/span>e<\/em> essay, \u201cApocalypse Now: Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies, Modern Tech, and the Anti-Christ,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a> his thought has been drifting toward an eschatology where innovation itself becomes the measure of righteousness. The new revelation isn\u2019t about Christ\u2019s return\u2014it\u2019s about civilization\u2019s deliverance through code, capital, and creation.<\/p>\nThiel\u2019s recent lectures, as reported by Tiku, confirm that transformation. He told his listeners that only a religious argument could properly motivate resistance to \u201cthe one world state,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> which he described as an emerging system of surveillance, tax enforcement, and global governance. Rational objections weren\u2019t enough, he said. Only apocalyptic conviction could make people \u201cfind it scary enough.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThis is faith weaponized\u2014not to save souls, but to immunize markets from oversight. For Thiel, belief becomes a firewall against regulation.<\/p>\n
\nThe Silicon Sermon Circuit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
According to recordings obtained by the Post<\/em>, Thiel delivered four private, two-hour lectures this fall under the title \u201cThe Antichrist: A Four-Part Lecture Series.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span> Attendees were instructed to keep the content \u201coff the record.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> <\/em>What they heard was not a financial forecast, but a sermon\u2014a worldview that fuses libertarian economics, apocalyptic Christianity, and the gospel of unrestrained innovation.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the 21st century,\u201d<\/strong><\/span> Thiel declared, \u201cthe Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It\u2019s someone like Greta or Eliezer.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u2019s Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a leading AI safety advocate whom Thiel once funded but now calls \u201cderanged.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> To Thiel, calls for restraint\u2014whether environmental or ethical\u2014aren\u2019t acts of caution but spiritual sabotage. His message is clear: those who question technology\u2019s momentum are not just wrong; they are on the side of the Antichrist.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time Thiel has wrapped technological optimism in religious garb. As I noted in my Righteous Caus<\/strong><\/span>e<\/em> essay, \u201cApocalypse Now: Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies, Modern Tech, and the Anti-Christ,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a> his thought has been drifting toward an eschatology where innovation itself becomes the measure of righteousness. The new revelation isn\u2019t about Christ\u2019s return\u2014it\u2019s about civilization\u2019s deliverance through code, capital, and creation.<\/p>\n Thiel\u2019s recent lectures, as reported by Tiku, confirm that transformation. He told his listeners that only a religious argument could properly motivate resistance to \u201cthe one world state,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span> which he described as an emerging system of surveillance, tax enforcement, and global governance. Rational objections weren\u2019t enough, he said. Only apocalyptic conviction could make people \u201cfind it scary enough.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This is faith weaponized\u2014not to save souls, but to immunize markets from oversight. For Thiel, belief becomes a firewall against regulation.<\/p>\n
\nFaith as Firewall<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nThe Silicon Sermon Circuit<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n