Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.
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I still struggle to understand if these people (Thiel et al.) genuinely believe the "DOOM IS COMING, WE MUST DESTROY THE WORLD TO MAKE GOD HAPPY" stuff, or if they're just trying to market their grifting to the religious people...
I will say if it's option two it seems to be working I've heard "it doesn't matter that we're on the verge of ecological collapse because there's no way to avoid it because it's prophecy" from many religious folks recently.
The religious stuff is almost certainly a grift
I suspect that Peter Thiel is one of these AI rationalists that seem so prevalent in the Bay Area. Or maybe an odd offshoot of them like the zizians. He certainly seems to embody a lot of the tendencies and rhetoric, though with a more evangelical bent.
People who are unfamiliar with these groups are never going to be able to truly grasp the intense psychosis they all exhibit. Behind the Bastards did a brief overview of them in it's zizians episode that really is just the tip of the iceberg, but it's not a bad introduction.
Jesus what is up with this nutjob. Why can't he just be normal
He needs to be put out of his misery, and all of ours
Because he is literally the antichrist
No, that’s Peter Thiel of many colors
If he wasn’t a billionaire, nobody would even be paying attention to him. He’d just be another wacko religious nut to be easily ignored.
It's absurd to see that he is totally batshit insane and that governments still want to give all of our data to him
Why is the Antichrist in Rome? He should be banned from Europe altogether.
You think billionaires could afford a proper haircut. That this was a deliberate choice speaks to his madness.
Quick question, what theological study background does he have? If any. I am very curtain that i have more expertise with my adhd autism fueled studies of theologie especially christian theologie
My dad is into theology and he found this podcast episode on Thiel’s theology interesting.
Thiel grew up under apartheid and went to an elementary school with nazi values though, so that gives a little context.
I also was a fascist in my teens. That is not an excuse. Its even worse to not see the errors of once way
Agreed. Offered as a bit of an explanatory reason but certainly not a justificatory one!
From one little fascist to a big fascist.
He doesn't have any. He grew up in an evangelical household. Studied philosophy and law. Somehow he developed a fixation on the Antichrist, Amageddon and the Apocalypse. He doesn't have any formal backround in bible studies, though. And some people call his lectures "amateurish talk".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
So he read from his still unpublished autobiography?
No, he thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.
I'm not making that up. He's completeky fucking insane.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks the humanities are useless and all that matters is technology, business, economics and STEM: take a good look at this fucking idiot with way too much power.
There to pick up a few new tricks?
All I've read from/about this guy makes him sound like an anime villain.