Mark Gagnon

You kind of need to appreciate the haters of the world.

Right.

Because they ensure that no one is the Antichrist, and if there's no Antichrist, then there's no end of times.

No, that's a take.

That's genius, right?

Yeah.

Thank God for haters.

Shout out to the haters.

Give me a fucking guest spot on one of these lectures.

Come on, Pete.

Shout out to the haters.

Come on, Pete.

The classical understanding of the Antichrist is that it's a singular evil individual.

It's just one guy that comes back that embodies, it's basically Satan that embodies the opposite of Christ, but unites all the people.

Now, people obviously will debate on the specifics, but there have been alternate versions, and this is kind of more what Peter Thiel takes up, is that the Antichrist is a pattern or a movement or a system.

So, for example, 1 John 2.18 says that there are many Antichrists to come, and many Antichrists have come before.

Basically, that it's an organizational structure of people.

Mm-hmm.

Now, Thiel's version, and this is kind of paraphrasing from his essays and stuff, is that the Antichrist may not be a person, but it is the system.

And it is a global government structure, which is an interesting point that he says it's a global government structure that takes control through exploiting fear.