Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

Pushing Christianity to one extreme or another is what Americans have always done. We’ve been making idols of our country, our pocketbooks, and our sacred selves for hundreds of years. What’s changed today, though, is the weakness of the orthodox response.

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This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the evangelical left operates. For them, a person’s actual identity does not really matter. A person’s actual actions do not really matter. What matters is the destruction of the heretic, and to take their criticisms and worldview at face value is to give them a validity that they do not possess.