With his all-consuming fear of death, Thiel is about as far from being a Christian as one can get. All his antichrist talk is a nakedly transparent attempt to gas up the rubes so they remain on the side of the billionaires even after Trump gives up the ghost. He doesn’t believe a single thing he’s saying.
Having spent too much time listening to his shit, i don’t think it’s purely propagandistic, what he describes is too esoteric to work as effective propaganda, I think some of it is Nazi-being-drawn-to-the-occult type of shit.
Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he’s just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn’t matter that he’s bonkers.
@TinyTimmyTokyo All-consuming fear of death is not hardly antithetical to Christianity, merely to its self-presentation. For a great many Christians the whole point of Christianity is escaping death. Fred Clark, himself a Christian, points this out as a major theme in his highly-critical review of the Left Behind books. He’s hardly the only one to notice it. https://youtu.be/tLd7BuiC5co?t=162
With his all-consuming fear of death, Thiel is about as far from being a Christian as one can get. All his antichrist talk is a nakedly transparent attempt to gas up the rubes so they remain on the side of the billionaires even after Trump gives up the ghost. He doesn’t believe a single thing he’s saying.
Having spent too much time listening to his shit, i don’t think it’s purely propagandistic, what he describes is too esoteric to work as effective propaganda, I think some of it is Nazi-being-drawn-to-the-occult type of shit.
Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he’s just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn’t matter that he’s bonkers.
@TinyTimmyTokyo All-consuming fear of death is not hardly antithetical to Christianity, merely to its self-presentation. For a great many Christians the whole point of Christianity is escaping death. Fred Clark, himself a Christian, points this out as a major theme in his highly-critical review of the Left Behind books. He’s hardly the only one to notice it. https://youtu.be/tLd7BuiC5co?t=162
Plus he’s gay so if he dies hell awaits, or so the evangelical worldview tends to go.
I get that, but most Christians don’t make plans to freeze their bodies after they die.
Love the Jethro Tull reference! “Not the kind you have to wind up on Sunday” - perfection.