Peter Thiel

And then you, you know, and then once you know that the witches are innocent or are relatively innocent, then you steal yourself and force yourself to find natural explanations. You know, if you don't think that it was, you know, I don't know, the Jews that poisoned the wells in the Middle Ages. Right.

And then you, you know, and then once you know that the witches are innocent or are relatively innocent, then you steal yourself and force yourself to find natural explanations. You know, if you don't think that it was, you know, I don't know, the Jews that poisoned the wells in the Middle Ages. Right.

Or some devils or- Eventually, or, you know, this was during the Salem witch trials, there were these, you know, you had these competing sermons on Sundays and, you know, the initial ones were sort of that, yeah, these women had made a pact with the devil, but then the way it got reconstructed, because it was right afterwards that the witchcraft trials ended and people sort of realized pretty fast they'd kind of collectively lost their minds.

Or some devils or- Eventually, or, you know, this was during the Salem witch trials, there were these, you know, you had these competing sermons on Sundays and, you know, the initial ones were sort of that, yeah, these women had made a pact with the devil, but then the way it got reconstructed, because it was right afterwards that the witchcraft trials ended and people sort of realized pretty fast they'd kind of collectively lost their minds.

Or some devils or- Eventually, or, you know, this was during the Salem witch trials, there were these, you know, you had these competing sermons on Sundays and, you know, the initial ones were sort of that, yeah, these women had made a pact with the devil, but then the way it got reconstructed, because it was right afterwards that the witchcraft trials ended and people sort of realized pretty fast they'd kind of collectively lost their minds.

And the alternate one was, the devil had entered the whole community and had possessed all of Salem. And those were the sermons you gave in the aftermath of the witchcraft trials. And then in that sort of a context, maybe science was also a way a way to find, you know, you can steel yourself to find natural explanations.

And the alternate one was, the devil had entered the whole community and had possessed all of Salem. And those were the sermons you gave in the aftermath of the witchcraft trials. And then in that sort of a context, maybe science was also a way a way to find, you know, you can steel yourself to find natural explanations.

And the alternate one was, the devil had entered the whole community and had possessed all of Salem. And those were the sermons you gave in the aftermath of the witchcraft trials. And then in that sort of a context, maybe science was also a way a way to find, you know, you can steel yourself to find natural explanations.

When you're in an archaic, you know, thing, scapegoating is always an explanation. It's a, you know, this person did this, that person did this, it's that person's fault. And when you say those explanations won't do, maybe you're forced to do scientific explanations. So there are all these different threads one can stress. I think you have to always ask this question

When you're in an archaic, you know, thing, scapegoating is always an explanation. It's a, you know, this person did this, that person did this, it's that person's fault. And when you say those explanations won't do, maybe you're forced to do scientific explanations. So there are all these different threads one can stress. I think you have to always ask this question

When you're in an archaic, you know, thing, scapegoating is always an explanation. It's a, you know, this person did this, that person did this, it's that person's fault. And when you say those explanations won't do, maybe you're forced to do scientific explanations. So there are all these different threads one can stress. I think you have to always ask this question

What was specific about the Christian message that really enabled this? I think there was a way the Jewish context was extremely learned. And people, I don't know, if you compare the Talmudic abilities already in the Middle Ages to understand the Bible, to read it. It was as good or better than anything that the Christian scholastics were doing.

What was specific about the Christian message that really enabled this? I think there was a way the Jewish context was extremely learned. And people, I don't know, if you compare the Talmudic abilities already in the Middle Ages to understand the Bible, to read it. It was as good or better than anything that the Christian scholastics were doing.

What was specific about the Christian message that really enabled this? I think there was a way the Jewish context was extremely learned. And people, I don't know, if you compare the Talmudic abilities already in the Middle Ages to understand the Bible, to read it. It was as good or better than anything that the Christian scholastics were doing.

But somehow it never really got a part of society to orient in this other way. But again, it's obviously a complicated history.

But somehow it never really got a part of society to orient in this other way. But again, it's obviously a complicated history.

But somehow it never really got a part of society to orient in this other way. But again, it's obviously a complicated history.

I think it was somewhere in Karl Marx where he says that all social criticism starts with the criticism of religion. And then the Christian addendum, I would always say, was that Jesus Christ was the first person to actually do that, really, and started that whole process, where you can think so much of it was calling into question the social institutions, the religious institutions,

I think it was somewhere in Karl Marx where he says that all social criticism starts with the criticism of religion. And then the Christian addendum, I would always say, was that Jesus Christ was the first person to actually do that, really, and started that whole process, where you can think so much of it was calling into question the social institutions, the religious institutions,

I think it was somewhere in Karl Marx where he says that all social criticism starts with the criticism of religion. And then the Christian addendum, I would always say, was that Jesus Christ was the first person to actually do that, really, and started that whole process, where you can think so much of it was calling into question the social institutions, the religious institutions,