Peter Thiel: On the Bible (Meeting of Minds with Jerry Bowyer, 2021)
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Outline:
(00:43 ) The Bible reads us
(02:02 ) Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and Remus
(06:05 ) Cross vs Resurrection
(07:26 ) The Gospels are different from Death of Socrates
(09:04 ) The Bible is discontinuous from pagan classics
(11:30 ) "The idea that victims exist comes from Judeo-Christianity and nowhere else."
(14:54 ) Was Nietzsche somehow extremely close to the truth of Christianity?
(17:18 ) Pagan Pharmakoi, the ancient sacrificial medicine
(19:48 ) Fascism and Communism
(23:00 ) Girard on the Woes against the Pharisees
(26:02 ) The cycle that leads to apocalypse
(31:11 ) Steven Pinker and the story of progress
(32:19 ) Is an apocalypse, such as a nuclear war, inevitable?
(35:10 ) Being too sanguine about apocalypse makes it more likely
(42:08 ) Is there an off-ramp? What would it look like? If we don't know, shouldn't we at least try to figure it out?
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