PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel is embarking on an unusual intellectual journey this fall—delivering a sold-out four-part lecture series on the biblical figure of the Antichrist. The private lectures, which will be held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, represent the latest evolution in Thiel’s increasingly public theological interests that intertwine his Christian faith with his concerns about technology’s potential to enable authoritarian control.

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      Said very calmly as a plague of locusts and frogs descends upon us.

      “Why do you ask?” Said as I nonchalantly paint my doorframe in blood to keep the angel of death from crossing my threshold.