Although many of those who peddled similar porkies on behalf of the Nazis paid for them with their lives, Thiel and his type tend to guarantee that there will be no repeat of that type of rough justice for today’s lot.

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Although South Park, The Guardian newspaper and our own excellent Kayla Carman are among the many outlets that scoffed at Peter Thiel’s musings on the modern Antichrist, both Thiel and his thoughts deserve to be taken very seriously. This is because Thiel, one of the world’s richest men, was a major donor to the election campaigns of POTUS Trump and VPOTUS Vance and Palantir, the company he founded, anchors the military industrial complex of both the United States and Israel. To rephrase that, Thiel is well placed to make his interpretation of the end times and all that entails the dominant paradigm not only in Washington and Jerusalem but in all places in between as well.

Thiel’s basic premise is that there is an Antichrist afoot and, should that charismatic Antichrist gain sufficient traction by mobilising climate change scepticism or some similar cause, then the world will need a saviour, a katechon, to deliver us all from his evil clutches.

Although Thiel has, in passing, cited climate change zealot and pro Palestinian activist Greta Thunberg as a possible candidate to be the Antichrist, he probably had someone much more powerful and charismatic in mind. Either way, Thiel has repeatedly warned of the imminent danger the Antichrist poses and our urgent need for a katechon to protect us from this beast.

From a traditional Western viewpoint, there are a number of problems with Thiel’s approach, outside of the fact that his views are, as Robert C Fuller’s Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession eloquently explains, much more consistent with those of his Evangelical upbringing and that the Antichrist and the katechon are rarely mentioned in the Bible and then more or less as tangential asides.

Thiel views this battle between the Antichrist and the katechon as a sort of High Noon shoot out, with only those two figures playing lead roles and the rest of us barely making it as supporting cast. Through that lens, Thiel’s views are as much reflective of those of Friedrich Nietzsche, as outlined in The Antichrist and Ecce Homo, where Nietzsche casts himself as both the saviour and destroyer of mankind, as they are of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, from whence Thiel pillaged the name of his Palantir company.

Although Tolkien was a Catholic in very good standing, that is of little consequence when we consider that Nietzsche repeatedly acknowledged his debt and gratitude to both Pascal and Dostoyevsky, two of my giants of Christian thought for the truth is, when ideas such as theirs are released into the wild, they are the property of all, Nietzsche and Thiel included, who wish to corral them for their own partisan ends.

But, as Paulina Borsook’s seminal Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech explained almost a quarter of a century ago, the ideas of Pascal and Dostoyevsky did not have Silicon Valley’s intellectual high ground all to themselves because the Nietzschean ideas of Ayn Rand and Japanese anime were much more pervasive then theirs ever were, just as the plagiarised ideas of Madame Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine had similar adherents not only in the drawing rooms of Victorian London but much further up the food chain as well.

The end result of all this is that South Park’s cartoonish replications of the end times have much more sway both in Silicon Valley and in Washington than do the learned tomes of academia’s elderly theologians who have spent their lives pondering on such matters. This is even reflected in the use of one dimensional memes by POTUS Trump and his acolytes rather than the ponderous, analytical reasoning the far more intellectually gifted POTUS Nixon used to disarm his own critics and Herr Hitler, with his over-reliance on cowboy writer Karl May for his political and strategic insights stands as eternal testimony to the dangers such blinkers pose to the peace and security of the world.

Although Thiel’s Antichrist and Katechon hypotheses, no matter how unacademic or unprofessionally delivered they may be, fit snugly into today’s cartoonish Zeitgeist mould, the problem for traditional Christian religions in this regard, just as with many other intellectual battlegrounds. is that they are ill prepared to argue their corner when Thiel’s billions set the ground rules and, as long as that remains the case, Big Libertarian Tech and South Park will continue to hold what passes for today’s intellectual high ground.

But even the shortest of side glances at Syria or Ukraine will show that Christian theologians are not the only innocents being thrown to the lions by the shallow thinking of Thiel, Trump and Vance. In their coverage of the victory of ANTIFA Manchurian candidate Catherine Connolly, in the recent Irish Presidential election, the Irish media have described ISIS as “freedom fighers” and, in a situation where outrages against Syria’s minorities continue to be daily occurrences, the blame for all of that country’s ills continue to to be pinned on former President Bashar al-Assad, as if he is NATO’s Beast of the Apocalypse, who has not yet fully passed the sulfuric baton over to Maduro or back to Putin, both of whom I addressed in recent articles.

In Venezuela, we have the case where NATO’s Katechon wages war on the patently false pretext that Caracas is to blame for America’s fentanyl epidemic and Venezuela’s recent Nobel Peace Prize winner is calling for NATO to do to Caracas what Hitler did to the Warsaw Ghetto, while Ukraine presents us with the dilemma that those who cover themselves from head to foot in Nazi tattoos are NATO’s katechon.

Although many of those who peddled similar porkies on behalf of the Nazis paid for them with their lives, Thiel and his type tend to guarantee that there will be no repeat of that type of rough justice for today’s lot, who tell us that ISIS are freedom fighters, Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist, war is peace, freedom is slavery and NATO, in one or other of its various manifestations, is the katechon.