Thiel is not a Christian?

resoluteteeth 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He is going around talking about biblical prophecies and the antichrist so regardless of whether you consider thiel a Christian or whether he considers himself a Christian the comment you are responding to is entirely accurate in saying he is interested "only in the hate and doom parts of [Christianity]".

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dmix 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Peter grew up in an Evangelical household which probably shaped his framing/worldview. As an adult he still identifies as a 'heterodox protestant'. Which in America usually means he's not really Christian, he just picks and chooses some ideas from it. The way he uses 'Antichrist' to talk about politics and tech (not just a single person or religious entity) seems to confirm that idea.

	▲	Obscurity4340 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Its ironic because he was homodoxxed by Gawker

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tastyface 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thiel is a heretic.

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LightBug1 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But he is a wanker. Does that help?

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cineticdaffodil 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He is someone who plugged his fingers into the power outlett that is the final mile of the enlightenment. Those guys all have that same shellshocked face and the same mission: to get humanity stable, progress is every step towards a sort of global "home for the handicapped and prone to selfdestruct" everything else is just soothing sounds.

Christianity is supported because it has shown itself to be the only culture capable to produce working institutions and a rule of law. He is all for that, as the alternative is basically permawar with nukes.

Every step taken, every plan, every endavour is part of a scenario tree with fallbacks towards that goal. Selfsurveilance, a hardened education system (ai), if you start to look at the world from that angle a ton of what they do, starts to make way more sense. Also from that point of view, money itself constantly looses value, as the scenario falls down the three. Its capabilities increasing the odds that are valuable. The last billionaire gets a potato for all of it.

His anti-christ is the loop deformation damage of humanity, a species stuck in a low tech environment, unable to ever regain complexity even if history throws it a mounttain of ressources. Look at he middle east for understanding.

	▲	oa335 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> He is someone who plugged his fingers into the power outlet that is the final mile of the enlightenment. The fact that you used this analogy is amusing - something so obviously stupid and self-destructive being recast as a necessary step towards enlightenment does indeed reveal a lot about Thiel’s intentions and the attitude of his boosters.
	▲	text0404 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Christianity is supported because it has shown itself to be the only culture capable to produce working institutions and a rule of law. I'm really sick of these christian nationalists deciding that their chosen religion is the best thing for humanity and forcing it onto the rest of the world. "Working institutions" and "rule of law" for whom? > Look at he middle east for understanding. How comically reductive. Would you care to delve into the history of the middle east and of christian/western intervention? > He is someone who plugged his fingers into the power outlett Children harm themselves by plugging their fingers into power outlets. That's why we teach them not to.