FEARS OF 'ANTICHRIST'
Thiel told the anecdote during a closed-door, four-part, eight-hour lecture series he gave during the past month in San Francisco, in which he discussed his concern that a figure he describes as an "Antichrist" could emerge on the global stage.In particular, Thiel says he has grown wary that an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.
That figure, who Thiel says is augured by the Christian bible, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes.
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