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More on Thiel & the Billionaire Religion Seeking to Conquer the WorldBy Matthew Fox 9/15/2025 |
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Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the new kind of religion emanating from some very influential billionaires in Silicon Valley such as Peter Thiel, who today launches his four-part seminar on his take on the Anti-Christ. A version that proposes, among other things, that Greta Thunberg is an antichrist in our day. (sic and sick.) |
Why are powerful billionaires connected to powerful people with many levers to pull—such as the vice president of the United States—busy talking about antichrist in our time? Part of the scene is that we are living in apocalyptic times, when so much seems to be falling apart all around us—“the center cannot |
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hold” as Yeats put it 105 years ago—and battles of good vs evil are seeming to envelop us. Our times echo those when the Book of the Apocalypse was composed around 95 CE. |
A screenshot from Erich von Stroheim's movie Greed, 1924. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons. | A second reason why billionaire power-brokers are talking
up apocalyptic religion is that they want to carry the religion of the future. Some in Silicon Valley believe AI is so powerful it qualifies as the new divinity. From deus ex machina to deus ex AI! Thomas Aquinas however warns that “greed knows no limit and |
tends to infinity." Greed is the reigning religion of many visible power figures of our time. Of course, greed/avarice is opposite to spirituality or healthy religion, as every religious tradition I know of teaches. The billionaire religious model now seeking to take over the world—having succeeded in taking over
one political party in America and striving mightily to ensure America becomes a one-party nation—is built on greed. Peter Thiel explicitly condemns a government “of the people, by the people and for the people” in favor of a government of, by, and for the powerful. And many of the rich are bowing mightily to the plan. We behold entire legal
companies, media companies (canceling of Steven Colbert by CBS is one such example), universities, corporations—you name it—are on their knees. Capitalism sans conscience is a sign of our times. |
The very unsupreme court has fueled this movement exponentially with its Citizens United decision (2010), that effectively invites billionaires and their corporations to spend limitless amounts of dark money on elections, thus ensuring the amassing of political power for the rich. Right wing billionaires own 82% of all media—social and |
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), flanked by other Democratic senators, urges a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United in 2014. Photo by Senate Democrats. Wikimedia Commons. |
traditional—and spread this new religion’s gospel everywhere, and manifest no shame in wrapping it in Christian nationalism. SCOTUS claiming out of thin air that no American president can be charged for crimes while in office, provides the icing on the cake. In my book on the Antichrist, I cited
Carl Jung’s warning how such archetypes hold a fascination and seductive quality, and offer a powerful way of alluring individuals and masses of people. Today’s social media—with ever louder voices and buttressed by algorithms—can spread lies, hatred, and chaos faster and further than ever before. |
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| The US president has hired Thiel’s secretive surveillance company Palantir
to compile data on Americans from DOGE findings. Thiel now will have access to sensitive information including CDC, tax data and private health records on millions of American citizens. Palantir is making billions from our government, building spy |
tools for ICE, the Pentagon, and police. What could possibly go wrong? In June, thirteen former Palantir employees signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration because “data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses.”* Bernie Sanders
warns: “Our civil liberties and right to privacy shouldn’t be the price we pay for security.” |
* Emily Jarvie, “Trump Administration Expands Partnership with Palantir to Collect Data on Americans,” ProActive, June 2, 2025. See Matthew Fox, Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas
on Creation Spirituality, pp. 488ff. And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ. And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the World. And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society. And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice. And Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation. Banner Image: A meeting of the rich and powerful in the Oval Office, August 6, 2025, while a portrait of Ronald Reagan seems to give his benediction. Photo by Molly Riley from the White House. Wikimedia
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Queries for Contemplation Do you think a religion based on greed augurs
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Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He also translated many of his works such as Biblical commentaries never before in English (or Italian or German of French). He gives Aquinas a forum so that he can be heard in our
own time. He presents Thomas Aquinas entirely in his own words, but in a form designed to allow late 20th-century minds and hearts to hear him in a fresh way.
“The teaching of Aquinas comes through will a fullness and an insight that has never been present in English before and [with] a vital message for the world today.” ~ Fr. Bede Griffiths (Afterword).
Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to
spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil
are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in
Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may
have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling
author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew
Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our
deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register |
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Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to
move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world. Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a
better world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, September 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. |
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Join spiritual pioneers Dr. Matthew Fox and Rev. Cameron Trimble for “In Search of a New Story: Reimagining What Comes Next,” a timely and transformative 4-part series featuring conversations with some of the most compelling wisdom voices of our time: Carolyn Myss, Diana Butler Bass, Luther Smith, and Ilia Delio. Thursdays, October 23, 30, and November 13, 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT Register HERE. |
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In this 6-month immersion program with Matthew, you’ll explore what it means to be a modern mystic and prophet, integrating this sacred knowledge into your life through the authentic teachings of Jesus and other wisdom keepers. This journey births what Matthew calls Christianity 2.0 — based not on dogma, but on a spirituality that recovers the sacred sense of original goodness. By Application only - apply HERERegister for a free information session HERE |
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