Peter Theil: May or may not be the antichrist but he is definitely our master

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What the hell happened at Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk? We asked the guests
We didn’t get a ticket, but we did speak with attendees — and protesters.
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“Sin Face” protests outside a talk by tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel


By Emily Shugerman and Garrett Leahy
Published Sep. 16, 2025 • 7:47am
Hundreds of people lined up Monday night outside the Commonwealth Club, braving a line of protesters sporting demon masks and blasting death metal, in order to see Peter Thiel deliver a lecture on the Antichrist.
The “off-the-record” talk was the first in a four-part series that the PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist sold out within hours of announcing last month. An online invite said vaguely that Thiel would be “addressing the topic of the biblical Antichrist” and its “theology, history, literature, and politics.”
Despite the lack of details, the event drew a passionate crowd. Dozens of protestors swarmed the sidewalk, carrying signs emblazoned with the billionaire’s face and reading “Not today, Satan,” and “Thiel gets rich, we get watched.” Chants of “Hey hey, ho ho, Peter Thiel has got to go,” rang out between the chorus of “Hammer Smash Face” by Cannibal Corpse. A nonplussed server from the restaurant next door came outside to glare in the direction of the PA system before realizing resistance was futile.
Lecture attendees, meanwhile, lined the block, burying their noses in their phones as the protesters heckled. The crowd was largely white, male, and clad in some form of button-down — attire appropriate for seeing their high priest deliver his sermon.
A group of people stands outside, some holding signs with messages against big tech companies. One person wears an orange jacket and hat.
Protesters confront attendees of Thiel’s four-part series about the Antichrist.
Skeptics, true believers, and moon crosses

Surprisingly, few in the crowd counted themselves as true fans.
“I’m personally ready for horns to grow out of his head in the middle of talking,” said one attendee, who identified himself as Dick Gay. “That would be great.”
Mr. Gay, who had flown in for the event from Los Angeles and said he was one of the investors of Sperm Racing (which is an actual thing wherein men compete to see whose sperm is “fastest” under a microscope), said he attended the University of Austin, or UATX, an “anti-woke” college reportedly partially funded by Thiel, and built his career around the principles outlined in Thiel’s book “Zero to One.”
Still, he said, he had difficulty squaring the ideas Thiel espoused with his track record – specifically his cofounding of defense tech company Palantir.
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“Palantir makes the AI technology that decides who lives or dies in a battlefield, which seems exactly like the Antichrist [Thiel] describes in all of his lectures,” he said. “I’m very curious what he has to say about that, or what excuses he might make.”
Attendee Justin Park said he just wanted to pitch Thiel on putting a 7.5-foot cross on the moon.
Wearing a blue Banana Republic blazer with a round, pearlescent pin engraved with a cross, the 43-year-old said his company, Cross on the Moon Coalition, and the titanium-aluminum alloy cross it hopes to erect on the lunar surface, is meant “to glorify and evangelize Christ through space exploration.”
Park said he’s “hoping to find something meaningful to learn from [Thiel]” but made it clear he’s also interested in having the billionaire evangelize his company’s goal. Putting the cross on the moon would cost around $40 million, he said.
“He could be the rock this project needs,” he said.
A man in a navy blazer and white shirt touches his chin thoughtfully, standing outside near a glass window with blurred people in the background.
Justin Park said he attended in hopes of pitching the billionaire on putting a 7.5-foot cross on the moon. | Source: Noah Berger for The Standard
At least one man waiting to get in, who declined to give his name or profession, was a true believer. He called Thiel a “very intelligent person” and said he was “almost prophetic” in supporting Trump before almost any other mainstream figure. The man, who was in his 30s, said he wasn’t a Thiel fan until last year, when he became a Trump supporter after seeing the president survive an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I misunderstood [Thiel],” he said. “I used to watch CNN and think he’s a Nazi.”
Now, he said, he understands the billionaire is talking about something bigger.
“If you read the Bible, there’s a whole spiritual warfare,” he said. “It’s not about left versus right, it is about God versus Satan. It’s about good versus evil. It’s about right versus wrong. … It’s almost like angels versus demons.”
A diverse group of people wait in line outside a building while a hand holds a sign reading “NOT TODAY, SATAN!” in bold red letters.
Protesters confront lecture attendees.
Thiel has been speaking for at least a year about the Antichrist — who, for the uninitiated, is a biblical figure who will rise before the Last Judgment and attempt to turn people against Jesus. But Thiel’s comments on the subject received greater attention after a June interview on New York Times columnist Ross Douthat’s podcast — in part because a stuttering Thiel failed to fully rebut Douthat’s suggestion that, actually, it is Thiel himself who is ushering in the coming of the Antichrist with the technology he is developing.
In the podcast, Thiel explained that he believes the Antichrist will present itself as an advocate for regulation, pushing to slow technological and scientific progress in the name of safety. He suggested, with a straight face, that the Antichrist could look a lot like 22-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg.
By playing on people’s fear of new technology, he posited, the Antichrist would usher in a totalitarian state and lull us into a period of stagnation.
Protesters gather to bedevil Thiel

Three people stand outdoors holding protest signs criticizing surveillance, abductions, and genocide, with trees and buildings in the background.
Protesters outside the lecture. | Source: Noah Berger for The Standard
Clearly, the argument is unpopular with some. A group called Bay Resistance organized the rally outside the lecture Monday, accusing Palantir in a flyer of enabling “mass public surveillance,” the “violent ICE kidnapping of immigrants,” union-busting, and military targeting in Gaza. They argued that the lecture series conflicts with the Commonwealth Club’s mission to “contribute to an informed and engaged democratic citizenry.”
Bloomberg previously reported that Palantir’s software has been used by the IDF to strike targets in Gaza. And, according to reporting by Wired, ICE is paying the company to create a real-time tracking tool to help the agency target undocumented immigrants.
Around a dozen self-described Satanists showed up, too, clutching copies of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible – suggesting Thiel might be the Antichrist they’d been waiting for.
A group of people with gothic makeup and costumes hold signs with red and black text promoting dark themes and rebellion.




WTF?????? Me thinks u protest too much. He is obviously the antichrist. And one of the people behind Palantir.


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