Peter Thiel's Religion

[effed3]

Given the fact that every human being has his personal point of view of the word, life and everything, and it's fine, imho, the problems arise when one has 'too much' power (money? influence? visibility? say it.), in a complex word this lead to -big- problems without proper balances. Or in others words, when ideas -too big- try to fir in minds -too small-, and success and whealt has nothing to do with true real intelligence. Or in others (prosaic, i know, sorry) words 'A Good Man Always Has to Know His Limitations(H.Challagan)'

[pmdulaney]

From a sociological perspective, the interesting thing about this to me is that it is reflective of a major sea change. The era WW2 to ~2010 was characterized by an adulation of science, and in the collective mentality science was associated with atheism. But atheism is an outlier in world (and esp American) history. As a conservative Christian I think that Thiel's theology is deeply flawed, as are the theologies of many, many others. But there is no longer, it seems, a taboo against spirituality, broadly understood. One of science's heroes is Isaac Newton, but he was into all sorts of occult spirituality. I say: If you've decided to become open to the idea of God actually existing, read the Gospel of John, and perhaps listen to Alistair Begg's 1990 sermons on 1 John.

By the way, people gave Donald Trump a hard time for saying "Two Corinthians" during his first run for the presidency. I think it is actually just a British (or Scottish) thing! You'll hear Begg say "One John".

[abraxas]

Now we're glorifying the psychopath as the high priest of the tech bro oligarchy?

[NotGMan]

Thats your merely your opinion. Mine is very different of him.

[pranitbauva1997]

I thought it was an interesting article, so I shared it here.

[drawkward]

Of course. This is Hacker News where the general audience is people who aspire to be like him.