In Saturday’s DM, we meditated on the brand new form of faith emanating from some very influential billionaires in Silicon Valley equivalent to Peter Thiel, who as we speak launches his four-part seminar on his tackle the Anti-Christ. A model that proposes, amongst different issues, that Greta Thunberg is an antichrist in our day. (sic and sick.)
Why are highly effective billionaires related to highly effective folks with many levers to tug—such because the vice chairman of the USA—busy speaking about antichrist in our time? A part of the scene is that we live in apocalyptic occasions, when a lot appears to be falling aside throughout us—“the middle can not maintain” as Yeats put it 105 years in the past—and battles of fine vs evil are seeming to envelop us. Our occasions echo these when the E book of the Apocalypse was composed round 95 CE.
A second purpose why billionaire power-brokers are speaking up apocalyptic faith is that they wish to carry the faith of the long run. Some in Silicon Valley consider AI is so highly effective it qualifies as the brand new divinity. From deus ex machina to deus ex AI!
Thomas Aquinas nevertheless warns that “greed is aware of no restrict and tends to infinity.” Greed is the reigning faith of many seen energy figures of our time. After all, greed/avarice is reverse to spirituality or wholesome faith, as each non secular custom I do know of teaches.
The billionaire non secular mannequin now searching for to take over the world—having succeeded in taking up one political social gathering in America and striving mightily to make sure America turns into a one-party nation—is constructed on greed. Peter Thiel explicitly condemns a authorities “of the folks, by the folks and for the folks” in favor of a authorities of, by, and for the highly effective.
And lots of the wealthy are bowing mightily to the plan. We behold complete authorized corporations, media corporations (canceling of Steven Colbert by CBS is one such instance), universities, firms—you identify it—are on their knees. Capitalism sans conscience is an indication of our occasions.
The very unsupreme court docket has fueled this motion exponentially with its Residents United determination (2010), that successfully invitations billionaires and their firms to spend limitless quantities of darkish cash on elections, thus guaranteeing the amassing of political energy for the wealthy. Proper wing billionaires who 82% of all media—social and conventional—and unfold this new faith’s gospel in every single place, and manifest no disgrace in wrapping it in Christian nationalism. SCOTUS claiming out of skinny air that no American president might be charged for crimes whereas in workplace, offers the icing on the cake.
In my guide on the Antichrist, I cited Carl Jung’s warning how such archetypes maintain a fascination and seductive high quality, and provide a robust manner of alluring people and lots more and plenty of individuals. Immediately’s social media—with ever louder voices and buttressed by algorithms—can unfold lies, hatred, and chaos quicker and additional than ever earlier than.
The US president has employed Thiel’s secretive surveillance firm Palantir to compile knowledge on People from DOGE findings. Thiel now could have entry to delicate data together with CDC, tax knowledge and personal well being data on thousands and thousands of Americans. Palantir is making billions from our authorities, constructing spy instruments for ICE, the Pentagon, and police. What might probably go incorrect?
In June, 13 former Palantir workers signed a letter urging the corporate to chop ties with the Trump administration as a result of “knowledge that’s collected for one purpose shouldn’t be repurposed for different makes use of.”* Thiel now could have entry to delicate data equivalent to CDC, tax knowledge and personal well being data. Bernie Sanders warns: “Our civil liberties and proper to privateness shouldn’t be the value we pay for safety.”
* Emily Jarvie, “Trump Administration Expands Partnership with Palantir to Acquire Information on People,” ProActive, June 2, 2025.
See Matthew Fox, Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, pp. 488ff.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the World.
And Fox, Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul & Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
And Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: A gathering of the wealthy and highly effective within the Oval Workplace, August 6, 2025, whereas a portrait of Ronald Reagan appears to present his benediction. Photograph by Molly Riley from the White Home. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
Do you assume a faith based mostly on greed augurs nicely for the way forward for our species and of the planet? May a faith that places compassion and justice first, be a greater different? Which is extra Christ-like? Which is extra Antichrist-like?
Advisable Studying
Sheer Pleasure: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He additionally translated lots of his works equivalent to Biblical commentaries by no means earlier than in English (or Italian or German of French). He offers Aquinas a discussion board in order that he might be heard in our personal time. He presents Thomas Aquinas fully in his personal phrases, however in a kind designed to permit late Twentieth-century minds and hearts to listen to him in a recent manner.
“The instructing of Aquinas comes by will a fullness and an perception that has by no means been current in English earlier than and [with] a significant message for the world as we speak.” ~ Fr. Bede Griffiths (Afterword).
Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given as we speak’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this guide using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this guide with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each non secular and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the present of an excellent and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that gives a standard floor for non secular seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Apply.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Individuals of the Earth by Matt Fox. He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand new life despite a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a complete new route for Christianity—a route that’s actually very historical and really grounded in Jewish pondering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed manner.
“Unique Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical remedy for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, creator, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the which means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and international therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Nicely price our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to make use of our skills in service of compassion and justice and to maneuver past our damaged methods–financial, political, instructional, and non secular–discovering a spirituality that not solely helps us to get alongside, but in addition encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, reworking them and within the course of constructing a extra sacred and simply world. Incorporating the phrases of younger activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the guide offers a framework that’s intentionally interfaith and speaks to our profound craving for a life with non secular function and for a greater world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a robust, inspiring, and very important name to embodied consciousness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and creator of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Girl, and the Battle to Save the Redwoods
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