i'm deeply amused that thiel keeps trying to pass himself off as a evangelical in the valley when he says stuff like this www.mediaite.com/news/billion...
i'm deeply amused that thiel keeps trying to pass himself off as a evangelical in the valley when he says stuff like this www.mediaite.com/news/billion...
"In a discussion on the TRIGGERnometry YouTube channel"
As the "Prosperity Gospel" folks have now taken over US evangelical Christianity, it no longer stands for all that woke, compassionate stuff that hippie Jesus dude talked about.
Cheap recycled Nietszchian bullshit
That Jesus of Nazareth. He was crazy-woke.
"Man. Man. Why do they want me dead just because I'm gay. Maaaaaaan."
We've got the American Jesus Bolstering national faith 🎵
His understanding of Christianity is as solid as his understanding of Tolkien
he barely passes as human.
This is the goddamn futurist motherfucker that works with the guy who wants to turn america into actual neofeudalism with no laws that bind the top. If AIPAC is the enemy from afar, this fucker is the enemy within.
Does it hurt your soul like it does mine, merely to read his transcribed speech? Watching it is too much for anyone to ask. 😱 But even reading it is a struggle. These are not supremely intelligent beings.
Christianity has been for sale since Reagan
Thiel: Christianity always takes the side of the victim. Us: YES SIR HELLO THAT IS THE POINT THANK YOU
Jesus: “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” Thiel: “Others others others! What about ME?!”
"The central message of Buddhism is not 'Every man for himself.'"
"Aristotle was not a Belgian"
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JFC
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He really looks like he walked off the set of a terminator movie and is still in character. Or, he’s just an egregious ahole.
Funny how these fascist billionaires keep coming back to human compassion being the problem and the obstacle to their taking more control for just themselves. While killing us to concentrate more capital. bsky.app/profile/shar...
Thiel is a fucking dunce. HOW has he managed to convince people that he's smart?
I mean, he’s kinda of right here. Many movements that would be considered “woke” have roots in Christian teachings.
Local Lord of the Damned has issues with his historic nemesis, The Church
But that’s what evangelicals believe.
Why won't anyone think of those poor offenders and belligerents!
As a real man of genius once said: “This is america. You’re either the duper or the dupee.” Along with “anyway, i started blasting.”
Thiel always looks like a melting T-1000.
These billionaires are barely human anymore.
Ah, Thiel, you’re so close to getting it…
Disappointing number of American evangelicals would agree with him
I’ve been wondering if right-wing churches have been regressing towards the more brutal elements of the old testament or if they’re just incoherent. Is the good samaritan getting less play?
Yes.
American evangelicalism has largely devolved into worship of power and money. There are a few pockets here and there where that isn't the case, but more of those pockets are choosing the eschew the term "Evangelical" to describe themselves.
Add patriarchy to the worship of money and power and I think you arrive at the type of Christianity that Thiel likes.
They now worship authority exclusively. It’s a cult of power
yeah i don't know where Thiel is getting his idea of evangelicalism from but it isn't from talking to the 80% of self-identified evangelicals who voted for Trump in 2024
without that evangelical vote Trump wouldn't have the white house (and yes of course we'd all be better off in that case)
Indeed. Plus ofc the guy is gay.
So he is an anti-Christ Christian. Got it.
it’s less surprising to me that he’s doing it than that he’s worse at papering over the contradictions than a prager u video. dude you went to stanford, i demand better bullshit
lol. lmao.
jeezus he’s such a fukn loser
(This passes for evangelical in a lot of circles)
fascists pervert everything
Weird flex for someone with his orientation.
I mean religion is generally followed by those that would rather be given a false narrative than think for themselves or accept reality so....
Is this satire? I'm so confused.... OTOH, if it upsets the MAGA Christian fanatics, great.
He’s such a pervy freak. Just and example of everything wrong with this “system”
The only people who don't take the side of the victims are the victimizers.
This is the most Nietzsche thing he could have said
my shock around Thiel is, how does an out gay man fit in with fully anti-LGBTQ 'christian' backers? the hypocrisy smacks you in the face
Gay *white man. The white man part overrides everything else.
Gay man with a shitton of money that overrides as well
Indeed.
As others have pointed out, this is recycled Nietzsche.
Actually you can read Nietzsche as extremely right wing or extremely left wing it depends on personal perspective.
Absolutely. My point is not that what Thiel's saying is like Nietzsche because both are right wing, my point is that the idea "it all went wrong with Christianity because the herd then dragged down the master men" is a prominent idea of Nietzsche's, among other thinkers.
A Neitzschean Lutheran somehow.
The man is a fucking Nazi, white supremacist.
Billionaires are NOT SMART.
I’ll actually give him credit for understanding what Jesus was about. He’s just against those ideas
...oh do alienate the evangelicals...more infighting between the racist nationalists, please...
Thiel is playing a cultural engineering game. He doesn’t reject Christianity entirely — he rejects the “soft” compassion-for-the-oppressed aspect that could threaten hierarchy. He wants authoritarian Christianity. He is fascist to his soul. If one can exist in a man like him.
Here's an interesting article.
"It always takes the side of the victim" Well yeah, if you're doing it right
Every interview with this guy is basically, “hmmm, how do i say what i really think without everybody thinking me a psychopath” and I genuinely believe he thinks the problem is people “not listening to what I’m saying” but not “people think what I’m saying is mentally ill…am I wrong?”
He is, of course, not wrong
Well, if one actually followed the teachings attributed to Jesus or other major religious leaders, then "woke" would be an attribute.
Did you see this?
... and, he's gay. I guess the 2025 zealots created a caveat just for him.
Amazing.
Says the creep who donates millions to professional victims. There's living in a bubble and then, like Thiel, there's abject delusion.
I’m constantly amazed at discovering that someone I didn’t think was pretending to be a Christian actually is.
Can't someone infiltrate his orbit and get him hooked on heroine?
and people still insist this guy is smart. lol
He uses big words
LOL, if he's working for Satan --I think it's probably the best he can do here.
There are still those who believe that the wealthy are necessarily smart, and they make the most snake-handling peasant-brained zealots look like stony materialists.
“america must return to its christian origins or else it will succumb to wokeness, which is, of course, christianity.”
"Won't anyone think of the bully (me)?"
Besides turning banker tables & raising himself from the dead, Jesus knew Kung Fu: Lk 4:28-30: “All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They … drove him out of the town, and took him to … throw him off the cliff. But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.”
like dawg the entire history of christianity is one of failure and losing
Where is this from, Sharon?
Is it Faith Within Reason? Thanks in advance!
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the point is to fail! and fail again!
Moving fast and breaking things?
Right. Philippians 2.
My faith has been in limbo for a long, long time now but it's shit like this that makes me want to start delivering sermons. Christ cares not for being "based" and "red pilled".
it's funny how he's basically ripping off Moldbug/Yarvin's letter to Richard Dawkins here
22 ...the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lifteth up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
The KYE boys have gone deep into this. Fascinating stuff. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
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What it really needs to do is abandon the weak and be for the strong, the alpha Side note thought: did Travis decide on naming his company “Uber” so he can be referred to as the “Uber Man”?
"This Jesus dude. I'm not a fan. Hung out with the poors? Executed by the state for his radical teaching? Way too woke."
He said that, and he also said the first will be last, the rich will be hungry, and the corrupt leaders will be called to account.
Chance would be a fine thing
I am so stealing this.
Freddy had a much better mustache game going than Thiel has tho.
Alt text: Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was pietzsche but Sartre was smartre.
Ah yes, Christianity, famous for always taking the side of the victims, except for when it's Christians doing the victimizing.
This man is 57 years old.
I know: he looks like sweaty skeletal shit. Always a bit scared, uncomprehending, disassociated, anxious.' No vibe, no center, no stability.
@slothropsmap.bsky.social how's his core stability? I meant he has the same understanding of Nietzsche as a freshman reading him for the first time.
He looked great the day after Luigi, all stammering and pouring sweat, we need a LOT more of that.
Thiel has no idea what he’s doing in the gym. He is pumped to the gills with gear and god knows what else, and he uses weights and machines like he’s never seen them before. A disgrace in the shape of an old barrel.
I deleted the thread because I don’t want to be thrown out my apartment window, but you can reminisce here.
i still can't believe this happened lol thank u for your service o7
historically thiel only throws u out his apartment window after u sleep with him though
Strange he didn’t follow the Spencerite theory on Christianity as a “Jewish psyop”
I don't see what role Thiel acknowledges (if any) for repentance/conversion Not sure if the point is necessarily to fail but it is to witness Thiel doesn't seem to leave room for witness that lacks visible ROI
I am not sure Trump believes he knows the cards God is holding But quite a few of his henchmen seem to think they do Vought and Miller among others
It's been a long time since I read Nietzsche, but isn't this the basic thrust of the genealogy of morals?
For the likes of Thiel, Christianity is fine as a cultural institution, western civilization at prayer. It's when people actually live it as a faith that's the problem, apparently. Frankly, this sounds a bit like a regurgitated version of Nietzsche's "slave morality."
Like I'm also sure this was the big problem Nietzsche had with Christianity. And it's also really telling that for all of their "cultural Christian" tripe, their mindset is more in line with ol' Freddy than Jesus.
Well, modern American churches have gyms, counseling services, “sermons” that sound more like motivational talks, etc., so Nietzsche’s self-overcoming ideas have long since filtered their way into the mainstream.
I beg these guys to think for a second about the people Jesus was performing good deeds for and the people who yelled at and chastised
Victims these days are the worst 🤨
And he's the smart one among the tech broligarchs.
This (to me) is just warmed-over Nietzsche. Without the begrudging respect Nietzsche seemed to have towards “Christ”, himself. Theil &co thinking of himself as “Strong” is also amusing af. Dude, you’re not a Strong Warrior. You’re RICH.
Kind of a bad look for christians that some guy can go "christianity is when you hate people different than you and give me money." and a sizable percent of them will cheer.
Don't the Evangelicals abhor his chosen lifestyle?
What’s more explicitly antithetical to Jesus’ teachings: the fact that he’s gay, or the fact that he’s a billionaire?
The billionaire. Jesus did not speak out against being gay, but said to love everyone.
That's why Christianity worked and expanded. Everyone feels like a victim of something, even the Thiels, and the Christos mythos judo-kicked that into a massive wave.
Vague memories of undergrad Nietzsche assignment have entered the chat
Very common really; Jesus or Ayn Rand? “I reject her philosophy,” Ryan told Robert Costa of the National Review. “It’s an atheist philosophy." www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
BTW the GOP always says philosophy when they mean ideology
Once again reminded that JD Vance credits the very same Peter Thiel for Vance’s conversion to Catholicism bsky.app/profile/saba...
Yeah, a version of Catholicism where even the about-to-be Pope told him he was wrong. About what St Augustine had to say. (The Pope's an Augustinian; he knows that stuff.)
This secondhand Nazi twat should enjoy whatever is left of his life and money with his family and stfu
Evangelical in the streets. Secular Nazi in the sheets.
Does he think people should worship Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus
For Peter Thiel, posing as a somdomite. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
I’m waiting for them to pass out the kool-ade
I trust he finds the "Blessed Are The Meek" thing offensive.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth was OG woke. Those who are anti-woke and against empathy and compassion are by definition NOT christian.
That's some Nietzsche shit...
Theil, the dude who read what Rene Girard said about the scapegoat and thought: huh, I could monetize this
Thiel is a faggot. They don’t like him. They want him dead, after they get his money. 😇
Also recall that the Nazi party used Christianity to secure power in Germany, but once their hold was absolute, attempted to abandon it for total worship of the state. Cruelty was the privilege of the powerful and their victims were damned by their weakness.
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If you actually watch the Youtube video of Thiel being interviewed is it the same as getting a lobotomy?
But...but he sucks dick and takes it up the ass. Odd choice for an "evangelical"
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Wish I could be amused - I’m just nauseated!
Scratch an evangelical and a Roman bleeds.
If you speak like that, how likely it is that you can actually think logically?
This is even more baffling in that he was interviewed in a documentary about Rene Girard in which he had nothing but praise for RG who’s whole deal was that the one core thing about Christianity, the one thing that makes it meaningful, is that it radically takes the side of the victim
I feel a little out of my comfort zone when talking about this, but I think he's taken aspects of Girard's thoughts about how mimetic rivalry could lead to violence and decided that destructive competition sounds *good* to him.
A whole lot of nothing.
We billionaires are the true victims. We're trying so hard to make the world a better place and no one appreciates how smart and selfless we are. If only Jesus understood this, instead of caring so much about the useless human inventory.
Iirc he is some kind of wildly heretical self-identified Catholic.
Anyway man is not beating the antichrist allegations.
Hilariously, his mentor knew that and even wrote a book about it. He thought it was a good thing too!
Once I realized he saw himself as an Antichrist/Brother Justin like figure, it all made sense to me. "The Greatest Commandment is 'Thou Shalt be Strong" (I really need to find a video clip).
Carnivale S5 could have saved us
Mambo No. 5: The Dialogic Imagination A little bit of Ayn Rand in my life A little bit of Nietzsche by my side A little bit of Carl Schmitt is all I need A little bit of post-liberal Catholics, here I am A little bit of techno-libertarianism makes me your man — Silicon Valley Remix
Silicon Valley’s intellectual buffet is… interesting.
Trying to imagine him volunteering for something where he had to interact with regular people outside his bubble... 🤔 🐪🪡
it wraps all the way around to being Varg Vikernes' esoteric nazism
ah yes, jesus the extremist rebel of nazereth, who was executed by the glorious roman empire for his utter blasphemy of disrupting local money-changing businesses and, AND calling himself the son of the only god in existence, what nonsense. everyone knows there are at least 73 known gods.
Jesus Christ was extremely woke, lol
It's funny in a sick way that right-wing Christians love the Parable of the Talents (which they misinterpret) and ignore literally the next part of Matthew 25, where Jesus says that if you don't take the side of the victim you are going to Hell
They fundamentally believe Jesus failed and it was because he was meek and mild. They prefer a dispensationalist Second Coming Turbo Jesus, who’s coming to pop eyeballs and create rivers of blood, according to Left Behind.
I’ve always thought it was interesting they call themselves Christian when it seemed like Matthew and Luke were both totally ripped out of their bibles or redacted like an Epstein document coming from Trump’s White House of just like one solid black line with just a few words popping through.
And not a one of them in red ink.
Thiel just sees Christianity as a tool for social control
This. It's always about control.
you’ve just described the whole conservative political movement of the last 50 years
You’ve just described the role of religion in society for the past xxx thousands of years.
Evangelicals would agree though lol
This is just dorm room bong hit vulgar Nietzscheanism, good grief. We’ve all read Genealogy of Morals, bud.
The ketamine business in the valley must be LIT. 😏
He's about as Christian as Satan. He's would love to topple The Pope. That'll never happen, but Theil sure would love to take down God.
Thiel is a weird, weird dude.
Oh I wish it were true that they always take the side of the victim!
Loved Thiel I his Nazi Boy Scout outfit
I’m curious, is he a big game hunter? There’s some big game looking for other billionaires
He so totally misunderstands Christianity. It was also clear in the Douthat interview when they were talking about the Antichrist. He was completely oblivious to the obvious - if anyone's an anti-Christ, it's him.
Thiel always wanted to be Dungeon Master when playing Dungeons & Dragons. But go look into what his characters and alignment were the times when he was playing but not as DM.
Look it's just really important to side with predators and abusers okay