Peter Thiel

And so to the extent, the way the anti-Christian argument gets made in late modernity is that it's, yeah, it's God's fault, but this time it's God's fault for putting us on this whole dangerous project in the first place. And it's like, yeah, it's like the lines in Genesis, you shall have dominion over the earth.

And so to the extent, the way the anti-Christian argument gets made in late modernity is that it's, yeah, it's God's fault, but this time it's God's fault for putting us on this whole dangerous project in the first place. And it's like, yeah, it's like the lines in Genesis, you shall have dominion over the earth.

And so to the extent, the way the anti-Christian argument gets made in late modernity is that it's, yeah, it's God's fault, but this time it's God's fault for putting us on this whole dangerous project in the first place. And it's like, yeah, it's like the lines in Genesis, you shall have dominion over the earth.

And so in the 17th and 18th century, the Christian God was blamed for slowing down the scientific technological project. In the 20th and 21st century, the Christian God gets blamed for starting it speeding up, keeping it going. And so the invariant is the Christian God always gets blamed, but the fact that it's the exact opposite tells us something very interesting about how this is transformed.

And so in the 17th and 18th century, the Christian God was blamed for slowing down the scientific technological project. In the 20th and 21st century, the Christian God gets blamed for starting it speeding up, keeping it going. And so the invariant is the Christian God always gets blamed, but the fact that it's the exact opposite tells us something very interesting about how this is transformed.

And so in the 17th and 18th century, the Christian God was blamed for slowing down the scientific technological project. In the 20th and 21st century, the Christian God gets blamed for starting it speeding up, keeping it going. And so the invariant is the Christian God always gets blamed, but the fact that it's the exact opposite tells us something very interesting about how this is transformed.

The only point I'll make is that we're, again, we're in a very different place with science and technology than we were in the 17th, 18th century. 17th, 18th century, I don't think people would have said, yeah, we're gonna make all this progress and then there's gonna be a lot of pushback and it'll get regulated.

The only point I'll make is that we're, again, we're in a very different place with science and technology than we were in the 17th, 18th century. 17th, 18th century, I don't think people would have said, yeah, we're gonna make all this progress and then there's gonna be a lot of pushback and it'll get regulated.

The only point I'll make is that we're, again, we're in a very different place with science and technology than we were in the 17th, 18th century. 17th, 18th century, I don't think people would have said, yeah, we're gonna make all this progress and then there's gonna be a lot of pushback and it'll get regulated.

I know the thought was we'll make a lot of progress and it'll be so good that it will actually then accelerate and it will, you know, it'll smash religion even more and then we can go even faster and it'll go even better. And it's going to have this sort of unraveling, accelerating effect.

I know the thought was we'll make a lot of progress and it'll be so good that it will actually then accelerate and it will, you know, it'll smash religion even more and then we can go even faster and it'll go even better. And it's going to have this sort of unraveling, accelerating effect.

I know the thought was we'll make a lot of progress and it'll be so good that it will actually then accelerate and it will, you know, it'll smash religion even more and then we can go even faster and it'll go even better. And it's going to have this sort of unraveling, accelerating effect.

And then in the 20th, 21st century, we make the opposite argument as there are some things in this project that have gone somewhat haywire.

And then in the 20th, 21st century, we make the opposite argument as there are some things in this project that have gone somewhat haywire.

And then in the 20th, 21st century, we make the opposite argument as there are some things in this project that have gone somewhat haywire.

Well, again, let's start with the early... the early modern history. And I'm always a sort of hardcore Girardian, this great thinker, intellectual, sort of in some ways Christian polymath that I studied under Stanford in the late 80s, 90s, and influenced me tremendously. And

Well, again, let's start with the early... the early modern history. And I'm always a sort of hardcore Girardian, this great thinker, intellectual, sort of in some ways Christian polymath that I studied under Stanford in the late 80s, 90s, and influenced me tremendously. And

Well, again, let's start with the early... the early modern history. And I'm always a sort of hardcore Girardian, this great thinker, intellectual, sort of in some ways Christian polymath that I studied under Stanford in the late 80s, 90s, and influenced me tremendously. And

You know, these things are, again, very complicated intellectual history questions, but certainly one intuition that's odd about your telling would be that you would say that we had sort of a law-centered, monotheistic tradition also in Islam, also in Judaism.

You know, these things are, again, very complicated intellectual history questions, but certainly one intuition that's odd about your telling would be that you would say that we had sort of a law-centered, monotheistic tradition also in Islam, also in Judaism.