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Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer · Youtube · 14 HN points · 0 HN comments

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Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse.

0:43 The Bible reads us
2:02 Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus
6:05 Cross vs Resurrection
7:26 The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates
9:04 The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics
11:30 "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."
14:54 Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?
17:18 Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine
19:48 Fascism and Communism
23:00 Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees
26:02 The cycle that leads to apocalypse
31:11 Steven Pinker and the story of progress
32:19 Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?
35:10 Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely
42:08 Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?

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Peter Thiel on the Bible

Jul 15, 2021 · 3 points, 0 comments · submitted by spacebanana7

Peter Thiel on the Bible

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May 23, 2021 · 11 points, 1 comments · submitted by misotaur

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1. Anyone named Peter instantly has a problem. (Ask me, I'm named after St. Peter, among other peoples/places.) Especially if talking about the Bible, none of which I personally hold to be absolutely true. But St. Peter fucked up at least three times, according to scripture. And maybe that wasn't the end of it.
2. Anyone named Thiel should be wary of the absolute load of crap this man had dumped on the family name. Jest sayin'.. The fact that he donated millions to Drumpf is enough for me. But, that may be my problem..
3. Maybe we just want to be in control of our own futures. And not in the control of some >>dude<<.

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Peter Thiel is a bit of an anomaly in Silicon Valley.
Not fan of his but appreciate his views, offering a different perspective on the tunnel vision and bias in tech, which is greatly liberal and anti-Christian, as noted in HN.
He approaches theology from an intellectual rather than a religious view, which avoids heated debates often produced by blind belief systems.

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