When Tech Becomes Theology
Thiel, AI, and the New Christian-Tech Regime
Well, we’re back to TACO Tuesday as one of the Grande Orange’s largest tech supporter/AI booster/mentor to the Hillbilly Heidegger JD Vance, Peter Thiel, has been spouting some outright crazy shit. Last week, he told audiences that regulating AI could bring about the Antichrist. “Being afraid of technological progress is actually an Antichrist creed,” he warned. That’s not mere hyperbole, especially coming from him. While it should gobsmack any modern listener as an audition for a straitjacket, it’s very much part and parcel of what this administration has been doing under the covers of chaos. Letting christian nationalist cultists run wild with public policy. One only need look at the Supreme Court for confirmation as Messrs. Alito (Christian Nationalist/Opus Dei Catholic/Federalist Society), Clarence Thomas (Christian Nationalist/Opus Dei Catholic/Federalist Society), Amy Coney Barrett (People of Praise Catholic/Federalist Society), John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, & Brett Kavanaugh (Catholic/Federalist Society). This is not to say that because they’re all Catholic (some being radical Catholics) it necessarily means that they are naturally inclined to regressive and dangerous precedents, but many of their recent decisions sure seem to point that way. Thiel’s theological framing (he is also a radical Catholic btw) of tech as sacred, regulation as blasphemy, and progress as divine duty¹, is of a piece with what we’re seeing coming out of the regime — albeit more extreme and unhinged. Which is really saying something! With the Mango Mussolini in the White House, JD Vance (radical Catholic - see a pattern?) as his mini-me attack doggie (they’re eating the dogs…), a supine GOP congress, and a reliably radical Supreme Court in place, Thiel’s rhetoric risks becoming governing doctrine. In such a fusion, Christian nationalism, NRx / accelerationism, and unrestrained AI will cohere into a new governing myth: the state as tech church and all of us, extraneous drones in thrall to the Moloch machines.
And with that…on with the show!
Accelerationism, NRx & Theological-tech Fusion
To grasp this vision, we need to see its ideological roots which I’ve covered before:
The Foundation of Dark MAGA and the Hijacking of Silicon Valley
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them - Frank Herbert, Dune
The basics are here:
Neo-Reaction / Dark Enlightenment (NRx) propagated by Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin rejects democratic pluralism, egalitarianism, and liberal institutions. It proposes technocratic or monarchical governance, ruled by elites and algorithmic logic.²
Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) holds that restraint is betrayal; we must push tech forward as fast as possible. In its view, speed is virtue, regulation is sin.³
Techno-Eschatology: For thinkers like Thiel, AI isn’t just a tool, it’s a cosmic lever. To oppose it is to side with decay, chaos, or worse. The Antichrist metaphor reframes those resisting unbounded tech as spiritual enemies.
In this framework, a Trump + Vance regime isn’t just political — it aims to incarnate a new anti-democratic praxis of religious-tech sovereignty.
How the Supreme Court Fits In: Enabling the Tech-Christian Regime
The Supreme Court, not just the White House or Congress, plays a pivotal role in shaping what’s constitutionally permissible. Recent decisions and the Court’s orientation as previously described feed into this emergent regime in several ways:
1. Expanding executive authority & weakening checks
The Court has increasingly deferred to executive power, narrowing oversight by Congress or agencies. That means fewer obstacles for an administration that wants to concentrate power, especially over tech and infrastructure. If the Court continues to uphold sweeping executive claims (in national security, surveillance, technology regulation exemptions), it clears legal pathways for an AI-driven executive state.
2. Aligning religious speech / doctrine and governance
The Court has had a string of decisions affirming religious expression, pushing back on secular constraints (e.g. in public schools, religious exemptions). In a regime that fuses Christian myth with governance, a Court sympathetic to religious claims can validate or legitimize tech policies framed in religious language. This gives legal cover to seemingly “faith-based” regulatory immunity for tech.
3. Undermining privacy, surveillance, and digital rights
Several cases have tightened the boundaries of Fourth Amendment or privacy protections in the digital age. If the Court permits broader state access to communications, data, metadata, or surveillance under weak thresholds, that helps a tech-first regime. AI systems feeding on data thrive when oversight is legally constrained. The whole point of DOGE was not only to instill fear among fed workers, cripple the agencies (that NRx again!), but grab the confidential data these agencies housed.
4. Restricting dissent / limiting oversight institutions
The Court has been hostile or skeptical to broad interpretations of administrative law, to independent commissions, and to expansive regulatory power by agencies. If it constricts the ability of oversight bodies—whether federal, state, or tech regulatory agencies—it weakens the institutions that might check algorithmic abuse or corporate-state collusion.
5. Setting precedent for opaque systems
The Court is entering territory where it must adjudicate cases about algorithmic decision-making, platform liability, AI bias, or transparency. If its doctrine develops in favor of deference or the “black box” as acceptable (e.g. “you can’t expect perfect explainability”), that gives legal immunity to systems that suppress or discriminate, under the justification that oversight is futile.
In effect, the Supreme Court becomes another node in a legal-ideological scaffolding that permits a techocratic Christian state to operate under fewer legal constraints.
Power in the Hands of the Tech Church
With the legal scaffolding in place, here’s how the regime might manifest:
Technological Supremacy as Divine Mandate
AI, infrastructure, algorithmic governance become sacraments. Regulation is viewed as spiritual heresy, not policy dissent.Algorithmic Rule Over Laws
Instead of laws and deliberation, decisions are delegated to AI systems, models, “trusted code,” or executive-authorized platforms. The Court’s deference reinforces that shift.Surveillance & Moral Policing
Data systems monitor ideological loyalty, flag dissent, enforce conformity. Religious rhetoric justifies “moral cleansing” via tech. Legal backing from Court decisions on surveillance, religious free speech, and executive power gives cover.Erosion of Rights & Norms
Privacy, due process, equality become optional constraints. The regime may openly devalue them as remnants of liberal decay.Elite Tech Rule as Aristocracy
Power concentrates among engineers, AI architects, platform owners. The state is not an apparatus, but a connective layer over tech elites, sanctified by myth.
The Stakes: What’s at Risk in This Tech-Christian Order
Democracy becomes performative
Elections lose substance if real authority lies in algorithms or executive tech instruments endorsed by the Court.Accountability vanishes
AI error or abuse no longer yields remedy. Corporate/state decisions become inscrutable, shielded by doctrine and deference.Minorities and dissenters are vulnerable
Without rights protections, the powerless lose recourse. Tech elites and citizens inside the “faith” or ideological circle command the system.Overreach becomes inevitable
The cosmic imperative to push tech might drive reckless deployment of AI, surveillance, even synthetic biology—ignoring safety, risk, or ethics.
What to Watch, What to Defend
Court decisions expanding executive surveillance, narrowing Fourth Amendment protections for digital data.
Rulings that limit administrative law, oversight agencies, or independent regulators.
Legal doctrine around algorithmic transparency or platform liability: will the Court require explainability, or will it permit “opaque machine judgement”?
Legislation or executive orders framing regulation as religiously suspect or “anti-progress.”
Efforts to embed AI in core state functions (social welfare, policing, predictive governance) without oversight.
Legal immunity or carve-outs for tech firms, especially those aligned with the regime.
Closing: When Silicon Valley is the Pulpit
Thiel’s invocation of the Antichrist is not eccentric sermonizing — it signals the spiritual logic underlying a new regime. In partnership with Trump and Vance, and backed by a conservative Supreme Court, the fusion of Christian nationalism, accelerationism, and unrestrained tech could become governing doctrine.
Regulation becomes heresy. The code becomes law. Judgment resides in algorithms, not juries. Dissent becomes spiritual deviation. In this architecture, the state is not just a machine — it becomes the divine machine.
And you know what we say about Machines - smash them!
Sources & Pull Quotes
“Being afraid of technological progress is actually an Antichrist creed” — attendee recollection of Thiel’s lecture.
Foundational ideas on NRx, Dark Enlightenment, technocratic rule.
Accelerationist / e/acc advocacy among tech circles pushing unbounded progress.
Recent Supreme Court decisions on surveillance, administrative power, religious freedom, and digital rights.
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