"Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg. Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of four lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming. Thiel, who describes himself as a small-o Orthodox Christian, believes the harbinger of the end of the world could already be in our midst"
"A basic definition of the antichrist: some people think of it as a type of very bad person. Sometimes it's used more generally as a spiritual descriptor of the forces of evil, Thiel said, kicking off his first lecture. What I will focus on is the most common and most dramatic interpretation of antichrist: an evil king or tyrant or anti-messiah who appears in the end times."
A billionaire tech investor hosted four waterfront lectures in San Francisco warning that an antichrist could already be present and that Armageddon may be imminent. The antichrist is characterized as an evil king, tyrant, or anti-messiah who unifies global power in the end times. The antichrist will come to power by emphasizing existential threats from technology and science, leveraging environmentalism, international agencies, and technology guardrails to legitimize centralized authority and enforce technological stagnation. The lectures connected concerns about existential risk, politics, religion, and the potential for figures or states to act as apocalyptic harbingers.
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