MAGA tech bros are fueling the evangelical obsession with Armageddon and 'the Antichrist'

Within Christianity, evangelicals and mainline Protestants can have radically different approaches when it comes to the parts of the New Testament that they zero in on.

Mainline Protestants — Lutherans, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the AME Church —will read the Book of Revelation, but as a rule, they aren't obsessed with it the way that evangelicals are. Evangelicals are often fixated on Armageddon and the End Times, and that includes evangelicals in the tech world.

Many evangelical tech bros, often described as "TheoBros," are aggressive supporters of President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. And they are much more socially conservative than the right-wing libertarians one finds in the tech field.

In an article published by Wired on September 30, reporter Laura Bullard examines the relationship between tech bros and evangelical Christian fundamentalists.

Bullard asserts that billionaire tech bro and MAGA supporter Peter Thiel's is heavily focused on the Antichrist and Armageddon.

"Peter Thiel's Armageddon speaking tour has — like the world — not ended yet," Bullard explains. "For a full two years now, the billionaire has been on the circuit, spreading his biblically inflected ideas about doomsday through a set of variably and sometimes visibly perplexed interviewers…. Depending on who you are, you may find it hilarious, fascinating, insufferable, or horrifying that one of the world's most powerful men is obsessing over a figure from sermons and horror movies. But the ideas and influences behind these talks are key to understanding how Thiel sees his own massive role in the world — in politics, technology, and the fate of the species."

Bullard notes that "according to some Christian traditions," the Antichrist "is a figure that will unify humanity under one rule before delivering us to the Apocalypse."

"For Thiel," Bullard writes, "its evil is pretty much synonymous with any attempt to unite the world. 'How might such an Antichrist rise to power?' Thiel asked. 'By playing on our fears of technology and seducing us into decadence with the Antichrist's slogan: peace and safety.'"

Read Laura Bullard's full article for Wired at this link.