Don’t know who Peter Thiel is? He’s the owner of PayPal. He also is the multi-billionaire who took JDVance (not his real name) under his wing and who is supporting Vance’s run for President in 2028.
What if Greta Thunberg is actually the Antichrist? OK maybe just a legionnaire of the Antichrist. What if peace is bad and war is good? What if the Woke Mind Virus is stopping the technological progress that is heading toward the Transhuman Singularity? We’re just asking questions here!
Most people would hesitate to teach theology in Rome if they lacked the requisite qualifications and degrees. That hasn’t stopped Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Republican mega-donor, whose lectures on the antichrist have been the hottest heretical ticket in the city for months, held at the Palazzo Taverna in Rome, just a stone’s throw from the Vatican.
I don’t think lack of professional credentials is the real problem here. It’s more . . .
His sold-out lectures are not only about garnering attention to his ideas, but also drawing others outside of the technocratic and political worlds into embracing his philosophy. These lectures have been reported on widely by many international publications, and were even lampooned on an episode of “South Park” last October.
And according to multiple reports, that includes the belief that the people who strive for peace, work for justice and want to embrace diversity are to blame for western civilization’s supposed ongoing collapse.
Thiel’s religious beliefs are a mishmash of his political and personal beliefs about technology, civilization, race and democracy. And his views on the antichrist range from the disturbing to the nonsensical.
For example, he has said that he believes the antichrist will push the world toward peace using the fear of war. He also thinks the antichrist would use peace to slow down or even stop technological advances. He’s said it’s possible that climate change activist Greta Thunberg and other critics could be “legionnaires of the Antichrist.” . . The man who made his fortune with PayPal and is building an even greater fortune by bringing artificial intelligence to government surveillance with Palantir isn’t obsessed with the antichrist in the “Exorcist” sense. His interests are instead an esoteric mashup of teachings from the late French academic Rene Girard’s mimetic theory and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who argued that modern thought is a secular belief rather than a religious complex.
Thiel’s obsession with Thunberg in particular has rocketed past “idiosyncratic” and is now in the extremely creepy stalker category.
Society has a serious billionaire problem and this guy, who among other things gave us his equally twisted messenger boy J.D. Vance, is Exhibit A. Or maybe B, given the continuing existence of Elon Musk.