The Gospel According to Peter (Thiel)
The billionaire tech mogul, intimately linked to the Second Trump Administration and JD Vance, has very peculiar views about Christianity and its acceptance of transgender ideology and transhumanism.
The New York Times recently interviewed Peter Thiel. The interview is worth watching in its entirety on YouTube, but especially the roughly three and a half minute segment clipped by the NYT TikTok account.
As a brief but critical aside, it should first be stressed that Peter Thiel is the singular reasons JD Vance has risen to prominence in American politics. Thiel has funded the entire career of Vance, including his ascendancy to the second highest office in the entire world. Thiel spent millions on Vance's Ohio Senate race, which created the plausible pretext for Trump to select him for VP despite being a totally unknown entity to average Americans before he ran for office.
Thiel is also deeply embedded in Silicon Valley, as well as AI and Defense industries. Thiel has been wielding an extensive fortune for over 20 years now, which was amassed in large part due to his early associations with many successful tech startups including Facebook and PayPal. All of this is to say that, this is a powerful person, whom much of the world revolves around. This individual, his actions, thoughts, and opinions, shape culture far more than most people. Thiel has billions of dollars, with which he can steer culture in whatever direction he wants. What he believes matters inasmuch as he will use his vast fortune to act on his beliefs.
The problem is that he is crazy.
In this interview, he struggles with the question "should humanity survive?". After several long and awkward pauses, it is only with intense encouragement by the visibly shocked interviewer that Thiel eventually says yes. Thiel's assent to the question was delivered in the most blank manner possible, bordering on reluctance. He is so powerful perhaps he cannot even comprehend how his reaction might come across as unnerving to several groups, including all of humanity.
When asked about transhumanism, Thiel (an outed homosexual and alleged Christian) provided an opinion which I have never heard uttered from any source other than himself. He first pivots to the transgender issue:
"and there's a critique of let's say the trans people in a sexual context, or, I don't know, a transvestite is someone who changes their clothes and cross-dresses, and a transsexual is someone where you change your, I don't know, penis into a vagina. And we can then debate how well those surgeries work. *But we want more transformation than that*. The critique is not that it's weird and unnatural, it's man, it's so pathetically little. And OK, we want more than crossdressing or changing our sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind, and change your whole body.
And then Orthodox Christianity, by the way, the critique Orthodox Christianity has of this is these things don't go far enough. That transhumanism is just changing your body, but you also need to transform your soul and you need to transform your whole self."
Orthodox Christianity supports transgenderism, transsexuality, and transhumanism? This is the first I, and everyone else, has ever heard of this interpretation. Yet somehow, according to Thiel, this is the position of Orthodox Christianity. Does he mean orthodox in the general sense, as in traditional? Or did a member of the Eastern church write this in some forgotten tome on Mount Athos? It remains unclear where precisely this belief stems.
Despite the utterly bizarre stream of consciousness, Thiel, a habitually nervous subject, seems actually to calm down as he delivers his answer. He has no hesitation about relaying this theory as fact, and was attempting to further outline this position before the interviewer, now fully saturated with confusion, asked for clarification.
A few years ago people were more tolerant of this archetype: the socially inept Asperger's genius, whose brain is working so fast we just have no hope of understanding his visionary brilliance. As a result, we once suspended our disbelief at such quirky, Sheldon from Big Bang Theory answers, and politely went along with their IRL technobabble. We would allow such characters to work, restricting them in their comments and actions as little as possible, out of a subconscious fear we would inadvertently throttle the next Newton or Mozart in the cradle if we, the little people who didn't go to an Ivy League or work at Silicon Valley, expressed concern and hesitance.
Now, everyone is sick of it. A large majority of the commenters on TikTok were critical of Thiel's answers and simply how dissonant they are with reality. Those paying closer attention are deeply concerned and frightened. How can someone so powerful, allowed so much influence over the country, be so completely out of touch? How can our highest elites be allowed to wield such power when their actions and beliefs are as foreign and cryptic to us as an alien from outer space? It is time we judge books by their covers. Does a sweating, stammering, dead-eyed person who can't swiftly answer whether he wants humanity to survive, seem like a good person to entrust with our government, health, and data?
The person who funds an entire network of Silicon Valley elites, the current vice president (who has been groomed as the heir apparent for the Whitehouse since at least 2017), a self-professed "Christian", believes that Christianity approves of transgenderism? And that the only gripe so called Orthodox Christianity has with sex reassignment is that it doesn't go far enough? Heresies this sweeping and influential have not been seen since the times of Arius. However, both of those figures weren't billionaires, so what does that says about our chances to resist these doctrines now?
Even his usage of phrases like "change your heart and change your mind" take on this pseudo religious character, and the line is perhaps deliberately blurred on whether he means literal medical advances or is outlining a new pro-transhumanist interpretation of the Bible.
Many people are already well aware that Thiel, and the rest of the Silicon Valley crew, are peculiar and terrifying people with malicious half-baked ideas. To the extent that this interview echoes such a finding, its discussion is warranted on that basis alone. However, what makes this interview more unique is that it is such a clear example of the kinds of people who are directing our society today. It begs the question: are we comfortable with the guy in charge of America's future believing Christianity was actually just pointing us towards being transsexuals, and downloading our souls into machines to become immortal? Do we condone his affiliation with the heir apparent to the Whitehouse, who is deeply entangled in the current presidential administration? Remember only recently it was announced that Thiel's company Palantir would be making a master database collecting information from all Americans. You would be hard-pressed to find a single American in the entire country who finds this new-age religion, and its disturbing mascots, to be appealing. They should not be trusted and they certainly should not be followed.
