Peter Thiel, an avowed atheist, has unveiled his new techno-religious babble filled with End Times rhetoric. It's all slickly packaged to sell Thiel to the white Evangelicals with whom he has aligned himself. Gil Duran explains. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-... - ThreadSky

robertscotthorton.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Peter Thiel, an avowed atheist, has unveiled his new techno-religious babble filled with End Times rhetoric. It's all slickly packaged to sell Thiel to the white Evangelicals with whom he has aligned himself. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-religion-apocalypse-dreams/

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weaselproof.bsky.social•3 days ago

The key context for venture capital they're going through their apocalypse now. The end of dennard scaling and the onset of dark silicon means that their fantasy of Tech Line Go Up Forever collapsed almost 20 years ago.

jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ahh yes, Peter Thiel, sweaty loser.

charliej102.bsky.social•2 days ago

Their high priestess is Ayn Rand, so it's no surprise.

mockingbird713.bsky.social•3 days ago

Your brilliant essay is making me compare and contrast (in my mind)Thiel's materialist "Theology" with a 9 hour deeper dive into a room with a wider view..

https://youtu.be/-phvpz2DnTM?si=Kg9fFf2SPsStNsyX

friend-titan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thiel's natalism is directly tied to his Christianity Though? Like I am not sure you know what avowed means.

stlhd1000.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

starlightwishes.bsky.social•3 days ago

It seems like Thiel believes he's a god. Or should be. In some of what he's said, he even seems to say that he is the Anti-Christ, which at this point I can believe. He's certainly one of the top candidates.

He's also certainly certifiable and belongs in a rubber room with his puppet Vance.

robairone.bsky.social•3 days ago

bluefiber.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you. Douthat's interview did nothing to clarify the gobbledygook.

fajitadoctor.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don’t know how anyone could read that interview with Douthat and not come away thinking that Thiel isn’t deeply weird and troubled.

jim0novak.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only the economic royalists and malefactors of great wealth had been smart enough to adopt the Hollyroller argot back in the 30s, FDR would have been a footnote. 🤔

matthew.flux.community•3 days ago

Thiehl is not an atheist. He self-describes as Christian. His mentor was the Christian apologist Rene Girard.

gilduran.com•1 day ago

"self describes" is doing a lot of work. It sees to me he is trying to develop his own version of “Christianity,” along with his tech brethren. Exalt the rich, destroy creation, turn truth into lies, dominate the world, create a new tech god. An anti-Christian Christianity.

openbuddha.bsky.social•1 day ago

The New York Times interview this week had him talking about Christianity and quoting Bible verses a lot.

gilduran.com•1 day ago

Yes, I know

https://www.thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thiel-the-antichrist-nyt-didnt-think-to-ask/

matthew.flux.community•1 day ago

It's a very bizarre and disturbing Christianity, but then again so is that of Russell Vought.

Both are fundamentally united in thinking that poverty is a moral consequence rather than a circumstantial one, and that they are emissaries of Jesus

edgegrrl.bsky.social•3 days ago

No mention of the fact that he’s gay?
If they wouldn’t vote for Mayor Pete, not sure why they’d be OK with Thiel. (Which my computer wants to autocorrect to “thief”)

https://www.advocate.com/politics/maddow-jd-vance-peter-thiel

pdbqp.bsky.social•3 days ago

In Curtis Yarvin's farewell talk regarding his long-term software project Urbit he drivels on a bit about Dante meeting up with an old mentor (in the Inferno), a homosexual, and even though he loves him as a person, he is saddened that he must be punished for his sin against God's beauty.

edgegrrl.bsky.social•2 days ago

These damned zealots could be the end of us, as a liberal democracy. 😤

pdbqp.bsky.social•2 days ago

My guess is that, even though they try their hardest, their attempts will be as much a misfit as JD Vance's efforts to hide he's actually Chucky incarnate. Just because they ram this pulp down our throats doesn't mean we will swallow.

edgegrrl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Right there with you. 👊🏼

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