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.
“his Christian faith”? Is Thiel Christian? Or is he just calling himself that for cultural political reasons, like Peterson and Musk?
(For the record, I am Christian, and I’m constantly horrified at what passes for Christianity in the US.)
He is not, he uses it for the political reasons like you suspect