What Billionaire Peter Thiel Said in His Private 'antichrist Lectures'
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There is a powerful undercurrent of pathetic weakness in American Christianity for those who espouse or entertain issues theil discusses. It's needy, and cloying. If you can't get the public to buy your spiel with the freedoms america already offers under the law there's something wrong with your message or how you represent it. Like Luther nailing his declarations up on the church's door -- not the local atheist club or porn star -- look at yourself first.
I was raised in a household of pentacostal evangelical christians. Co-joining secular developments (like aids on the 1980s) into God's judgement or as suggestive of the second coming blew through that community every 3-7 years. And of course it was all 100% BS.
Its almost like without this co-joing into the larger political sphere those Christians see themselves as having no value, relevance, or purchase. It's pathetic.
Catholics don't usually get caught up in this nonsense, by way of contrast.
Now, I remain firm here in my criticism while holding warm regards for Christians who take themselves and faith seriously. Rusty Browers is one such individual in the trump-theil-christain intersection.