PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

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    11 days ago

    I’m no biblical scholar, but isn’t this one of the features of the antichrist? Like that they will have false prophets and other dastardly types trying to deceive people and advance the real antichrist’s agenda?

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      11 days ago

      If any of those myths had any basis in reality, Thiel would definitely qualify as the Antichrist. As it is, he’s just a common and garden variety asshole.

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        My neighbor is a common garden variety asshole… this guy is a billionaire pile of shit getting obscenely wealthy on the demise of humans. He’s not the antichrist, but he’s no garden variety asshole.

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      8 days ago

      I’m not religious at all, but seeing these mouthbreathing maga fuckwit’s, slavish fealty to that pedo-protecting rapist criminal, has me reconsidering.

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      Jews need to build the third temple first for the antichrist to be summoned. Coincidentally a red heifer was sacrificed earlier this year and The Dome of the Rock is looking mighty destructable.

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        10 days ago

        I went down an antichrist rabbit hole during my work poop earlier and read that the Bible prophesies there being multiple antichrists throughout history, culminating in an ultimate mega-douche of an antichrist who ends up ending the whole world.