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Eschatological thinking: why Peter Thiel is talking about the Antichrist
Trying to make sense of Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist and Armageddon? This article has the answers. Parts 1 and 2 lay the foundations, and parts 3 and 4 offer an explanation. (4,100 words.)
However, the only road to utopia takes humanity through the apocalypse — a term I’m using in the colloquial sense to mean “the complete final destruction of the world.” To establish heaven on Earth, the current world order must be violently torn down and permanently eradicated. The entire imagery of his Nazi Party and regime was deeply mystical, suffused with religious, often Christian, liturgical symbolism, and it appealed to a higher law, to a mission decreed by fate and entrusted to the prophet Hitler. This is why many Christian Zionists support Israel with dogmatic intransigence, and see its establishment three years after Hitler put a pistol to his head as the most significant eschatological event since the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 AD, thereby supposedly fulfilling the prophecy of Mark 13:1-2.
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