Posted on 10/17/2025 9:33:56 PM PDT by johnnygeneric
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, has a provocative theory about how the Antichrist could take over the Earth and enslave humanity.
"My speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time," Thiel told Hoover Institution interviewer Peter Robinson earlier this year.
The greatest danger we face, according to Thiel, might not be from global warming, terrorism, nuclear winter, or artificial intelligence going rogue. The real danger is that we're so afraid of these threats that we're willing to give up our freedom in the interest of "peace and safety," which is the phrase Thiel ascribed to the Antichrist, citing Thessalonians 5:3.
"It's the opposite of the picture of Baconian science from the 17th, 18th century, where the Antichrist is like some evil tech genius, evil scientist who invents this machine to take over the world," Thiel told the New York Times' Ross Douthat on a podcast. "In our world, it's far more likely to be Greta Thunberg."
"I feel like that Antichrist would maybe be using the tools that you are building," replied Douthat.
Douthat was referring to Palantir, the government contractor that Thiel co-founded in 2003 during the height of the war on terror. Today, Palantir is "in the white-hot center of the latest trend reshaping the global order," according to The Wall Street Journal, receiving more than $322 million from government contracts in the first half of 2025.
It's equipping the government with tools to sift through massive data troves to identify patterns and hunt down illegal immigrants. It's helping the Feds deploy facial recognition technology, and has created AI tools to "predict" where crimes might happen in advance.
This war on privacy in the name of safety needs to stop.
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My son was watching South Park tonight, and it featured the character Peter Thiel. I don’t watch the program myself. Just caught a bit of it, and wasn’t sure who Thiel was, so I did a search. He’s gay, a billionaire and a Trump supporter. That’s got to be tough for liberals.
. . . and his name is an anagram of THE REPTILE.
“This war on privacy in the name of safety needs to stop before we all get caught.”
Changed to match the writer’s panic.
“. . . and his name is an anagram of THE REPTILE.”
Good one, I’ll have figure out all the words my name can make.
Is Peter Thiel religious?
Bfl
He is giving the Antichrist the tools he will need to use against us.
Hmmmm... If the anti- Christ was a tech genius, that's exactly what he might say.
LOL!! Of course it is!!
Right. I was surprised by how current and psychotic South Park is this season. Theil is portrayed as a exorcist while Trump tries to get an abotion for Satan who he made pregnant pregnant. South Park is Off the hook.
Bkmk
It is a good argument. The same people promoting runaway crime and terrorism will provide an Orwellian police state as a remedy. People will beg to have their freedom taken away for a little security.
I’m not defending Thiel or Palantir, but Thiel isn’t describing how he’d bring about a surveillance state—he’s warning that fear is what empowers one. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 makes a point about people surrendering liberty for “peace and safety.” That’s not a defense of control; it’s a warning against it.
Palantir gets lumped in with Big Brother because it builds powerful data tools for government, but those same capabilities are used to limit abuse through audit trails and access controls. The company even refused to join the U.K. digital-ID project over privacy concerns.
The real issue isn’t that Thiel or Karp want tyranny; it’s that any technology can serve tyrants if citizens stop demanding oversight and accountability. Their warning is basically this: fear of chaos is how free people talk themselves into chains.
It’s the people stoking that chaos (the Democrats and Globalists) who are trying to bring about tyranny.
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” ~ Matthew 7:15-16
The 2 South Park creators signed a $1.5 BILLION contract...and appears to now be puppets of their masters.
I imagine he’s more into the occult, like most people with ungodly amounts of wealth and power.
Peter Thiel owns JD Vance.
He also owns Palantir Technologies.
Read about Palantir. They are very dangerous.
Yes, he is absolutely one of the false prophets we were warned about.
He’s a homo so I can’t take his religious beliefs seriously .
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