How Peter Thiel’s apparent “Christian” front group weaponized scripture to legitimize his Nazi territorial philosophy.

Historians Train to Spot Patterns

When Peter Thiel recently delivered four private lectures warning that climate activists and tech industry critics are “legionnaires of the Antichrist,” most coverage ended up focused on the carnival-like spectacle — apocalyptic language, religious fervor, sheer weirdness of a billionaire investor preaching eschatology into San Francisco “tech elites”.

These reporters missed the point entirely, perhaps because historians are so rare these days.

The lectures, hosted by ACTS 17 Collective—a religious lobby group pushing church control over state through tech industry elites—are neither eccentric theology nor mysterious. As leaked to the Washington Post, they represent the latest iteration of a multigenerational fascist project: establishing sovereign territorial racist enclaves outside democratic accountability.

Understanding this requires historical rigor, not journalistic circumspection or diplomatic euphemism. Let’s be precise then: ACTS 17 Collective functionally is a return to overt promotion of the Nazi Lebensraum doctrines.

Lebenswhat?

I know, the word sounds like some kind of gross cake the neighbors bring over for the holidays.

The Nazis promoted a concept of Lebensraum (living space) to justify territorial expansion. Several interlocking claims were used:

• Superior people require separate territory
• The “contaminated” mixed societies are irredeemable
• Wacky groundless mystical frameworks, meant to sound philosophical or even moral, provide legitimation
• Availability of space, or really existing populations are worthless and to be displaced or subordinated
• This expansion is civilizational necessity, not mere conquest or colonization. That’s how “Mars” references, to the trained historian ear, have the unmistakable ring of 1960s Rhodesian or Namibian white flight:

  

The sophistication of modern tech fascism is that it replaces military conquest with silicon venture capital, and racial pseudo-science with scripture. But the core structure remains identical.

The Thiel surname itself appears repeatedly in Nazi records: Walter Thiel, a famous example, managed a Nazi techo-compound in the 1930s where his more than 700 slave laborers died producing weapons systems. When German newspapers today glorify this “Silicon Valley,” they’re explicitly connecting Nazi tech slavery to modern tech culture.

…a part of the Nazi war machine, Thiel dreamed of… a rocket capable of manned flight to the Moon.

Werner Thiel, another well known example, was captured in 1942 attempting to smuggle bombs into America to sabotage the defense industry from within, a bumbling covert agent of death turned in by his colleagues.

The Genealogical Evidence

Peter Thiel’s father Klaus Thiel provides the clearest through-line. In 1967, Klaus departed Frankfurt on the eve of denazification intensification, relocating to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1971, he pivoted his United States papers into criminal work in apartheid-era Namibia (illegally occupied by South Africa), where he managed the Rössing uranium mine from a Nazi enclave. His clandestine illegal nuclear weapons supply operation was being reported for Black workers “dying like flies” from radiation exposure, while white managers like Klaus enjoyed country club privileges. In 1977, Klaus abruptly fled his racist enclave of Namibia when Black majority rule no longer could be blocked, settling into Reagan-era California’s white-flight suburbs.

The Klaus Thiel story is NOT a normal economic migration.

Each relocation follows the same pattern: flight from democratic accountability toward territories with legally-sanctioned racial hierarchy.

The son clearly has systematized what his father improvised. Peter Thiel has funded charter cities like Próspera in Honduras and California Forever in Solano County—attempts to establish private governance outside democratic control. He invested in seasteading projects for floating cities beyond national jurisdiction.

Through Palantir, Peregrine and Anduril, he’s positioned technology as a prerequisite for white nationalist sovereignty. He installed JD Vance as ideological successor in government. And according to journalist Jacob Silverman:

…politically connected people in the charter cities movement, people receiving investment from Thiel and others, were very excited about the prospect of the U.S. taking over Greenland.

This isn’t even close to libertarian theory, as it often contradicts it. It’s the long-standing active Nazi territorial acquisition strategy transmitted from Klaus to Peter.

Lebensraum.

The Old Acts 17 Red Flag: Scriptural Legitimation of Segregation

ACTS 17 Collective didn’t choose its name randomly. The Acts 17 reference is known white nationalist doctrine, providing the three key elements essential to Lebensraum ideology.

First, the “divine boundaries” verse Acts 17:26 states:

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

This verse has been explicitly weaponized throughout history by extremists to justify racial segregation and apartheid.

Apartheid. Acts 17. Inseparable in history.

Think about Peter Thiel and Elon Musk… spreading the encoded language of apartheid. Or as a defender of American segregation once wrote plainly:

The Scriptures teach Segregation…Acts 17:26…is used over and over again in defense of segregation of the races.

The verse provides divine sanction for separate territories for separate peoples, opposition to “mixing” (racial, cultural, democratic), God-ordained hierarchy and boundaries, and the right of “superior” groups to their own sovereignty.

That’s apartheid, just apartheid wrapped in “Christian” phrases.

Second, consider the elitist engagement model of the reference. Acts 17 depicts Paul addressing the Areopagus—the intellectual and political elite of Athens. This creates a scriptural template for bypassing democratic processes through elite capture, targeting cultural centers (Athens becomes Silicon Valley, the Nazis appropriated classical imagery), converting powerful individuals rather than building mass movements, and achieving top-down civilizational transformation.

That’s fascism, just fascism wrapped in “Christian” phrases.

Third, the apocalyptic civilizational warfare frame. Paul’s message announced God’s intention:

…to put an end to the civilisation that has, for a long time, dominated the geographical space that has Athens at its centre.

This justifies viewing democratic culture as existentially threatening, framing opposition as cosmic struggle, demanding complete societal transformation, and rejecting incremental reform in favor of rupture.

It has elements of apartheid, and overt reference to fascism, but really Acts 17 appears to be about the rapidity of rupture for… Nazism.

The Nuremberg Moment

Thiel’s comments on the Nuremberg trials expose the whole gambit for its underlying resentment doctrine. When asked about Nazi accountability, he expressed nostalgia for Churchill’s early political pressure for summary executions:

I think Churchill just wanted summary executions of 50,000 top Nazis without a trial. …I wonder if the Churchill [approach] would have actually been healthier than the American one.

“The Churchill one” means the most extreme, the most illogical, the least law and order. Churchill was not a great guy, let that be clear, across a number of issues. He helped preserve the Chamberlain government’s campaign to defeat Hitler (wrangling in overt UK sympathy for Nazism), and this interrupted German spread of evil, but we must also beware his many flaws.

Why would a Nazi today prefer summary executions over trials, to “burn and forget”? Because Nuremberg trials were created to generate documentary evidence of Nazi crimes, international law frameworks for accountability, legal precedents preventing fascist rehabilitation, and historical record making denial impossible.

It’s like Bernie Madoff arguing fraud should bring a firing squad instead of forensic accounting. The logic is perverse: extreme penalties without documentation eliminate the evidence trail. If they’re not executed, the argument goes, there’s no proof of crime—and if they are executed, there’s no trial record to study. It’s the “no true Scotsman” fallacy weaponized: real Nazis would have been shot, therefore anyone still breathing can’t be one.

For someone whose father fled denazification, this isn’t abstract philosophy. The Nuremberg framework is precisely what threatens multigenerational transmission of fascist ideology. Thiel’s preference for summary execution over documented accountability reveals his actual concern: preventing the power of historians to account, by evicerating historical records and covering up what his projects represent (let alone his father’s).

How Silicon Lebensraum Wags the Valley

Silverman’s Gilded Rage documents the practical implementation across multiple domains.

• Physical sovereignty through Thiel’s New Zealand compounds, charter cities in Honduras and California, Musk’s Texas compounds, interest in Greenland acquisition and “exit” strategies for sovereign enclaves.
• Economic sovereignty via cryptocurrency as parallel financial system, opposition to tax transparency and the Common Reporting Standard, and resistance to democratic oversight of capital.
• Educational sovereignty including private schools like Zuckerberg’s pandemic academy, control over curriculum and values transmission, and escape from “contaminated” public education.

  

• Ideological sovereignty means purging organizations that represent internal dissent. A fetish for unity in thought pervades tech companies. Fifty Google employees were fired for protesting Israeli contracts. As Silverman documents, there’s now “very little tolerance for internal dissent or anything political that feels disruptive.”
• Military integration proceeds through Palantir and Anduril positioning as essential defense infrastructure, what Silverman describes as “outright enthusiasm for working in the defense industry,” and defense contracts as leverage for political influence.

“Urban” Life Framed as Justification

Silverman identifies their view of San Francisco as “irredeemable” due to prosecutorial reform, equitable history teaching, and treating homelessness as social rather than criminal issue.

President Trump regularly parrots 1970s racist extremist doctrine when fraudulently attacking cities as unsafe or in “decline.” This echoes Klaus Thiel’s 1970s Namibia rhetoric about “failed” multiracial governance—the same lens Peter Thiel applies to San Francisco today, marking its prosecutorial reform, equitable history teaching, and social treatment of homelessness as signs of an “irredeemable” city. It’s the Nixon “Urban Renewal” playbook: frame diverse, democratic governance as failure requiring white-flight (abandonment) or destruction and replacement.

Thiel told Stanford classmates that apartheid “works” and is “economically sound.” His current projects apply the same logic: democratic, diverse society is dysfunctional; superior people require separate sovereign space of exclusivity.

America Needs Historians More Than Ever

JD Vance is a coin-operated “Thiel disciple” who “has written about how much Thiel influenced the course of his life.” His extremely expensive campaigns that enabled elevation to Vice President places the Lebensraum network at the center of American governance.

Americans don’t get it clearly enough yet and seem to think this is about tech regulation disputes, tax policy disagreements, and antitrust enforcement.

Nope.

It’s actually about territorial sovereignty outside democratic control, racial and class separation dressed as innovation, and ending democratic governance for ideologically pure enclaves. As Silverman notes:

I think the Democrats, in some ways, still may not understand what they’re dealing with.

These aren’t opportunistic politicians. These are Nazis infiltrating a political party. Silverman emphasizes: “these guys are rather sincere in a lot of ways.”

People need to smell the coffee. When someone writes like this:

[Thiel has] long been skeptical, at the very least, of democracy. Democracy interferes with his idea of true freedom. [Those feelings] are more widely felt now among the tech elites than they were when Thiel was a little bit lonely on that front in the late 1990s.

This is a platform of swastikas waving, by people who explicitly reject democracy and are building alternatives.

This is stated openly, repeatedly, in their own words.

Historical Analogy as Antidote

In 1930s-40s Germany, society was viewed as “contaminated” by democracy, Jews, and communists, creating the need for Lebensraum in the East. Philosophical justification came from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt—whom Thiel openly credits as his core influence: technological and racial superiority justified Hitler’s genocidal expansion through military conquest.

…Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose work [Thiel] said helped create the core of his own beliefs.

In 2020s Silicon Valley, society is viewed as “contaminated” by wokeness, diversity, and democracy, creating the need for sovereign enclaves through charter cities and compounds. Philosophical and theological justification comes from Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, and Acts 17. Technological superiority justifies sovereignty achieved through venture capital and defense contracts.

The sophistication is the mechanism, not the ideology.

Some will repeatedly fall for the logical fallacies like Scotsman, and object that any or all comparisons to Nazism are inflammatory.

It’s actually precise.

Lebensraum requires identification of a superior group requiring separate space, justification through philosophical or pseudo-scientific framework, territorial acquisition strategy, rejection of “contaminated” mixed society, subordination or displacement of existing populations, and civilizational necessity framing.

Peter Thiel and his associated network exhibit these characteristics. Thiel has expressed anti-democratic views, stating that ‘democracy interferes with true freedom.’ Thiel has pursued territorial sovereignty projects including charter cities and expressed interest in Greenland acquisition. The ACTS 17 Collective uses Acts 17:26 scripture in its organizational framework. Thiel and associated figures have criticized San Francisco’s governance as failed. Thiel’s broader network invests in alternative governance infrastructure through cryptocurrency, private education, and defense technology companies like Palantir and Anduril. Thiel positioned JD Vance in government through political funding and mentorship.

What ACTS 17 Actually Does

The organization presents as Christian networking for tech leaders “wrestling with what it means to live with purpose and conviction.”

Its actual function is providing theological legitimation for oligarchic territoriality.

By hosting Thiel’s “sold out” apocalyptic carnival selling fear of “Antichrist legionnaires,” ACTS 17 vaulted speaker has framed democratic oversight as cosmic evil, as if to provide divine sanction for elite sovereignty, by weaponizing Acts 17:26 “boundaries” theology for ideological cohesion among tech elites. It’s hard to say this is anything but a mask for territorial ambitions in thick religious appeals.

This is precisely how fascist ideology gets transmitted across generations: the core remains constant (superior people deserve sovereign space) while packaging is adapted to the latest mystical power juice (from racial pseudo-science to biblical exegesis).

The Multigenerational Project

Klaus Thiel spent his life fleeing democratic accountability through migration to territories with legally-sanctioned hierarchy.

Peter Thiel is systematizing this impulse through institutional capture via defense tech and political placement; territorial acquisition through charter cities and compounds; ideological transmission through ACTS 17 and Vance mentorship; infrastructure building through Palantir surveillance and crypto sovereignty; and philosophical legitimation through Schmitt, Yarvin, and scripture.

This isn’t opportunistic. This is apocalyptic, destructive.

It’s the continuation of fascist ideology through adapted institutional forms, using theological language to avoid acknowledging what they actually seek: the end of democratic accountability and the establishment of sovereign elite enclaves organized on hierarchical principles.

Demand a Stand

Historical analytics demands we name patterns accurately. When a man whose father fled denazification builds surveillance technology for authoritarian regimes; studies Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt; explicitly rejects democracy; funds territorial “exit” strategies; uses scripture historically weaponized for apartheid; positions protégés to dismantle democratic governance; and hosts lectures framing democratic critics as apocalyptic enemies—calling this “libertarianism” or “contrarianism” isn’t analysis.

It’s evasion. It’s information warfare.

It’s certainly not the first time a white supremacist went around saying critics of AI are the real killers, not the horrible people creating the AI.

And look how that prediction turned out.

Don’t allow another goose step.

The ACTS 17 Collective appears in proper context to function as a Nazi front, a Lebensraum organization. The evidence is overwhelming, documented, and stated in their man’s own words.

The only question is whether we have the clarity today, to recognize in 2025 what people said could be seen in 1932 (let alone 2012).

Related Reading

• Washington Post, “Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction” (October 10, 2025)
• Jacob Silverman, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley (Bloomsbury, 2025)
• Politico Magazine, “‘The Democrats Still May Not Understand What They’re Dealing With'” (October 11, 2025)
• John Ganz, “The Enigma of Peter Thiel,” Unpopular Front (July 23, 2022)
• Jim Stewartson, “Peter Thiel’s Radioactive Childhood,” Mind War (April 4, 2025)
• Max Chafkin, The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power (Penguin Press, 2021)
• Richard Davis, “The Politics of Nations and Boundaries—Acts 17:22-31,” Political Theology Network (May 23, 2018)

People are asking me questions about the recent unhinged rants of political extremist Peter Thiel, setup by the Acts 17 Collective.

What do I think?

Thiel is clearly backwards and ignorant, inverting history.

The real Luddites, for example, were technology experts who opposed undemocratic deployment that stripped workers of power and dignity. His depiction of them was completely wrong. Thiel himself opposes democratic oversight of technology deployment because elites like himself gain from being above the law.

The reasons for his false telling of history should be obvious.

When he calls critics “legionnaires of the Antichrist,” he’s not making an economic argument. It’s a worldview shaped by his father’s lifelong flight from democratic accountability. Getting all dressed up in religious language is a simple trick to seem profound and hide their authoritarian desires.

Once again his rants sound like the son of a Nazi still denying history, on the run from accountability, because that’s exactly who Thiel is.

Consider Peter’s life story of his father fleeing denazification in 1967 Germany for apartheid Namibia, then fleeing approaching majority rule in 1977 for Reagan’s vision of white rule over California. Peter himself bragged at Stanford that apartheid “works” and is “economically sound,” referring to his father’s illegal uranium mining operation where Black workers died from radiation exposure while white managers enjoyed country club privileges.

Most revealing is Thiel’s resentment toward the very accountability mechanisms designed to document horrible crimes and prevent their return. When directly asked about Nazi accountability he openly expressed nostalgia for summary executions over due process:

I think there was certainly a lot of different perspectives on what should be done with the Nuremberg trials. It was sort of the US that pushed for the Nuremberg trials. The Soviet Union just wanted to have show trials. I think Churchill just wanted summary executions of 50,000 top Nazis without a trial. And I don’t like the Soviet approach, but I wonder if the Churchill one would have actually been healthier than the American one.

The Nuremberg trials created an undeniable historical record, established international law for crimes against humanity, and built the framework for holding authoritarian regimes accountable.

Thiel argues it would have been “healthier” to execute Nazis quickly without trials because that would avoid creating exactly the documentary evidence and legal precedents that prevent fascist ideology from being laundered across generations.

Given his father’s 1967 flight from denazification, this isn’t abstract philosophy. It’s personal resentment of the accountability framework that threatens to expose what he represents.

The illegal apartheid uranium mining background is especially chilling given the current push for unfettered AI development. Same pattern: extract maximum value, externalize the risks onto vulnerable populations, resist any democratic input.

This isn’t intellectual contrarianism, because it’s simply Nazism.

Once you see the multigenerational fascist ideology underneath his Silicon Valley success, you see exactly why someone who studied Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt explicitly rejects democracy as incompatible with his vision of the future. The continuation from his father’s laundering of Nazism means he wields enormous influence over American politics while the genealogy remains conveniently masked-even as he maneuvers pawns like JD Vance into positions to end democracy.

Related: “Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploited in Widespread Extortion Campaign”

The question isn’t whether Oracle is paying Tony Blair through his Institute (TBI) for lobbying and forcing top-down sales. The infamously untrusted and overtly political Palantir has proven lately that’s just a standard English breakfast fare for Big Tech deals.

Many feel that their professional judgement has been overlooked, and that this is yet another example of a top-down digital decision that lacks transparency and accountability.

Based on extensive evidence from multiple investigations and insider testimony, the real question should be: why are governments still taking meetings with Oracle’s TBI?

When a billionaire gives a whopping quarter-billion dollars to the former prime minister’s pockets, to gain extraordinary government capture of policies to benefit that billionaire, it’s not philanthropy.

As one technology writer has put it:

Tony Blair is really just a salesman for the tech companies, and flies around the world looking for naive Governments who want to believe in magical solutions.

This isn’t just a UK story. Former TBI employees describe similar dynamics in developing countries, with the institute acting as what insiders call a “tech sales & lobbying operation for Oracle”

It’s almost like we know why the company was named an “all seeing” Oracle. Was the brand “Orwellian” already registered? What about “Orwellison”? At the Dubai World Government Summit, the Oracle’s main man Ellison was explicit about a very villainous sounding interest, telling his audience:

The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the AI model.

Consumed?

People who need care are seen by the big Oracle as consumption, to be used.

The first thing?

Imagine a doctor saying first to the patient get in here so you can be consumed and used by me. Chilling.

The Oracle man is saying out loud that the first thing he thinks a country needs to do is centralize all citizen data for extraction. This “value” model of use is simply inhumane, a repeat of the worst tragedies – populations treated as raw material to be used in centralized power.

Will his government platform soon say “Oracle Macht Frei” on its landing pages?

The deception of Nazism was in treating human extraction as liberation, which seems to be the same false promise behind TBI pushing Oracle’s cynical “AI transformation” as population-level capture by elites without any representation or exit.

TBI infiltration of government to normalize the Oracle plan is precisely the kind of technocratic dehumanization that enables atrocities, by treating populations as data to be captured inside systems designed for inescapable control, unnecessarily privatizing central power over life and death decisions.

It is no exaggeration to explain how this pattern is straight out of history, such that we know waiting until it’s “bad enough” to call it out means TBI walks away with pockets full while claiming to “know nothing” about how they did it. And that means waiting until it’s too late to prevent mass tragedy.

One can only imagine how Ellison and Epstein would discuss moving humans to a digital island for high exit barriers. It sounds like something out 1600s colonialism to be honest, if you think about the huge buildings built around London as displays of extractive power. The devastation wrought on nutmeg islands hundreds of years ago would be lost on most readers, unfortunately, but everyone has heard of Epstein.

In that sense it really doesn’t matter whether Ellison also was on the “Epstein list” or not because we are talking about a modern metaphor to predict harms from certain billionaire behavior (private islands, capturing people with high exit barriers, treating humans as consumable resources). That’s a structural analysis for preventing measurable harms to the public.

So let’s fast forward, to how Britain’s NHS health records dating back to 1948 have an estimated commercial value of up to £10 billion. Oracle indeed has used capture of citizen data to reach £1.1 billion in UK public sector revenue since early 2022, with major government colonization worth hundreds of millions.

The concerning part, in other words, isn’t just a one time exposure, it’s the ongoing access – a form of colonnus. One investigation revealed that TBI staff were embedded directly in UK government departments while still on TBI payroll. Documents show that Technology Secretary Peter Kyle even instructed officials to work with TBI on the national data library project, writing plainly:

Attaching the initial scoping work from TBI here.

A bit on the nose. Which is why it apparently wasn’t hard for reporters to find 29 current and former TBI staff with damning accounts:

“When it comes to tech policy, Oracle and TBI are inseparable,” said one former senior adviser.

Another recalled:

I was being pulled into what felt a lot like tech sales and tech PR… We had an angle, and the angle was more tech, big tech, all the time.

Oracle staff reportedly began sliding into TBI employees’ calendars to schedule meetings and “scope out opportunities”.

I’m definitely getting Epstein vibes throughout the reporting—not because Ellison is connected to Epstein, but because the pattern is identical: private islands (literal and digital), captured populations with high exit barriers, humans treated as extractable resources.

TBI looks to be engaged in a centuries old extractive structure of dehumanization.

Going through the Oracle and TBI papers means learning about innocent and often powerless people unwittingly coerced and then digitally captured by a billionaire who promotes tech islands where citizens are stripped of rights so they can’t easily get away from his consumption, to be used by him.