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Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Re: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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Don't you find it problematic that the only reason Thiel can organize these lectures is because he is a billionaire? Is he a bona fide scholar on the subject? Would any tenured theology scholar be welcome to hold the same lectures at the Vatican? I guess that's what you get for electing an American as the Pope. /s

The lectures were not given in the Vatican but somewhere nearby, and if you read the article you would see that all the Catholic institutions names denied involved with the lectures.

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the old saying goes that every entrepreneur wishes they were a philosopher, and every philosopher wishes they were an entrepreneur generally holds true soros marc rich bill gates musk thiel nassim taleb epstein etc

I like that saying but those are all entrepreneurs right? Where are all the philosopher wannabe billionares? From my experience they seem pretty happy in relatively low paying professor jobs.

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Don't you find it problematic that the only reason Thiel can organize these lectures is because he is a billionaire? Is he a bona fide scholar on the subject? Would any tenured theology scholar be welcome to hold the same lectures at the Vatican? I guess that's what you get for electing an American as the Pope. /s

He didn't give lectures at Vatican, not even at the Catholic university close to Vatican, and even Catholic University of America didn't have anything to do with it.

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This is an attempt at a reverse Streisand effect, right? He didn't like people memeing that he was the antichrist, so he did all this so any searches would turn up his lectures rather than the memes/accusations.

No, he has been ranting and raving about the antichrist for at least a decade. He and JD Vance bonded over it.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter...

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“Christians debated these prophecies for millennia. Who was the Antichrist? When would he arrive? What would he preach?”

Maybe that we all need to surrender all our data to an intransparent global surveillance tool, that gets more and more connected to automatic killer drones?

Oh and also despise democracy of course. Jesus Christ was on the side if the poor, so the antichrist would be on the side of the rich.

Any ideas who the new antichrist might be?

Re: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures

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This is an attempt at a reverse Streisand effect, right? He didn't like people memeing that he was the antichrist, so he did all this so any searches would turn up his lectures rather than the memes/accusations.

Possibly, but I think he does believe it. it fits.

A Google search turns up the usual stuff (e.g. his Wikipedia page) and then a Youtube video accusing him of destroying democracy, so if that is what he is trying its not working: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=peter%20thiel&sei=tfWzadnD...

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