@firstthingsmag @HendershottAnne Fan fiction as apologetics for a billionaire panopticon baron inverting Girard’s entire analysis into a sacral warrant for an exemption claim that enacts the very mechanism it claims to oppose.
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Copy of tweet here: Voyages to the End of the World by Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe From t.co/FZvFrIEU9q 1/2 This essay doesn't just describe a theopolitical pattern; it arms a hermeneutic mapping political instincts onto biblical categories—policy dressed as cosmic drama, theology as regulatory cover, ideological commitments with material interests as acts of Christlike resistance.
@MassimoFaggioli The tell is built in. Theology thin as a receipt. Fear posing as sacrament, control transubstantiated into virtue, security in ecclesial drag—the “katechon” as eschatological delay behind a billing stack, sovereignty on autopay, empire stabilized by subscriptions, not conviction.
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