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Peter Thiel: On the Bible (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2021)
Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse.
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Outline:
(00:43) The Bible reads us
(02:02) Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus
(06:05) Cross vs Resurrection
(07:26) The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates
(09:04) The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics
(11:30) "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."
(14:54) Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?
(17:18) Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine
(19:48) Fascism and Communism
(23:00) Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees
(26:02) The cycle that leads to apocalypse
(31:11) Steven Pinker and the story of progress
(32:19) Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?
(35:10) Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely
(42:08) Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?
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Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2EUl_3ncA
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Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse.
---
Outline:
(00:43) The Bible reads us
(02:02) Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus
(06:05) Cross vs Resurrection
(07:26) The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates
(09:04) The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics
(11:30) "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."
(14:54) Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?
(17:18) Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine
(19:48) Fascism and Communism
(23:00) Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees
(26:02) The cycle that leads to apocalypse
(31:11) Steven Pinker and the story of progress
(32:19) Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?
(35:10) Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely
(42:08) Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?
---
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2EUl_3ncA
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