(Not demanding credit on keeping better up to date on hate-reading the EA forums, just sharing the previous discussion)
Highlights from the previous discussion… I had thought Thiel was entirely making up his own wacky theology (because it was a distinctly different flavor of insanity from the typical right-wing Fundamentalist/Evangelical), but actually there is a “theologian” (I use that term loosely) who developed, René Girard, who developed the theology he is describing.
I brought this up right when it came out: https://awful.systems/post/5244605/8335074
(Not demanding credit on keeping better up to date on hate-reading the EA forums, just sharing the previous discussion)
Highlights from the previous discussion… I had thought Thiel was entirely making up his own wacky theology (because it was a distinctly different flavor of insanity from the typical right-wing Fundamentalist/Evangelical), but actually there is a “theologian” (I use that term loosely) who developed, René Girard, who developed the theology he is describing.