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Palantir founder, Trump ally Peter Thiel talks Antichrist, coming 'totalitarian' system in resurfaced interview

In a newly-resurfaced interview, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, said he believes biblical concepts like the Antichrist and Armageddon stem from the potential of catastrophic technologies that could lead to a totalitarian one-world government.

Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, stated in an October 2024 interview with Stanford University’s think-tank, the Hoover Institution, that the Antichrist figure from the book of Revelation could emerge by exploiting fears of apocalyptic destruction and offering a solution through global governance. He told “Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson” this figure or system would present itself as a savior, promising "peace and safety" in a world of extreme stakes.

Pointing to 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Thiel, 57, said his “speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power, it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time.” He added, “The slogan of the Antichrist is peace and safety, which is nothing wrong with peace and safety. But you have to sort of imagine that it resonates very differently in a world where the stakes are so absolute, where the stakes are so extreme, where the alternative to peace and safety is Armageddon and the destruction of all things."

In his interview with “Uncommon Knowledge” last October, Thiel suggested the United States itself could, depending on its political trajectory, be an “obvious candidate” for what he sees as the Antichrist system. Pointing to the Cold War era, Thiel said the U.S. has embodied characteristics of both good and evil. “I think anti-Communism was the supranational ideology that stood against the one world state of Communism.
“And so, the U.S. is ground zero of globalization and it's ground zero of the resistance to bad globalization, we're both,” he said. “That's why it matters so much, the President of the United States maybe is the catacomb, maybe it's a type of anti-Christ, but presidential elections matter."

Thiel’s Palantir, which last month landed a $480 million contract with the U.S. Army for its AI-driven Maven Smart System, helped develop a new system for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2020 to track the production, administration and distribution of COVID-19 injections.

The Tiberius system, a data collection and analysis platform from Palantir, was used by HHS to track hospital data related to COVID-19 patients. As part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, Tiberius was later used to manage the purchase of COVID-19 serum and to track whether certain populations were taking the injection.

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