A fresh spiritual elite emerges in the United States, uniting billionaires and technocrats around the thought of technological messianism.
Donald Trump's re-entry to the White home brought to power in the United States representatives of a reasonably influential group of Pentecostalists and technocrats from Silicon Valley, possessed by the common thought of large spiritual transformation. It can be said that a fresh spiritual elite emerges in the United States, uniting billionaires and technocrats around the thought of technological messianism.
Thanks to an influential American billionaire Peter Thiel., one of Trump's main run sponsors, as well as Vice president J.D. Vance's guardian, the subject of the Apocalypse, Armageddon and the advent of the Antichrist permanently entered the media calendar.
In 2 interviews – 1 November 2024 under the Peter Robinson programme "Uncommon Knowledge" at Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (American Center for Political investigation affiliated to Stanford University) and the second, July 3, 2025, with the writer "New York Times", Ross Douthat – Thiel devoted most of his time to the Apocalypse, the exhaustion of humanity as a origin of improvement and the function of artificial intelligence as the only salvation from the Antichrist.
In mid-October 2025, Thiel gave 4 paid lectures in San Francisco. Tickets cost $200 a individual and sold out almost immediately. The lectures, which were mainly attended by representatives of Silicon Valley, politicians and journalists, were devoted fundamentally to 1 goal: proving that the Apocalypse had already arrived, and searching for Antichrist. Thiel profoundly believes the Antichrist is already working among us and our occupation is to realize who he is. For 4 days, the technological tycoon and the political theologian mentioned the names of those who he thought were speeding up the end of the world, bountifully quoting the Bible and its favourite philosophers.
Were they not false prophets from whom Jesus Christ warned his followers in the Sermon on the Mount: “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are predatory wolves. By the fruits you will know them”? Moreover, Trump's surroundings brought together a group of highly eccentric neo-Protestant preachers, any of whom, without irony, call themselves “prophets” and “apostles”. Now, as can be expected, in addition to Thiel himself, who speaks exclusively in eschatological terms, Silicon Valley will present (and, as it seems, already has) its “prophets” and “apostles”— Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land And a fewer others.
These technological apostles, like ministers of the heretic gospel of prosperity, promise wealth and wellness (the miracle of healing) through technology – through their venture capital funds and biotech companies.
In turn Elon Musk, another technocrat and billionaire close to Trump, talks about the birth of earlier alternatively shy atheism – a fresh “world religion”. Indeed, hybrids of pentecostalism and technoocultism. Both the external features and the actual content of this fresh “ secular religion” created specifically for the American technocratic elite can be seen by examining the actions of its most prominent public figures.
The driving force behind the creation of a “worldly religion”, as Musk calls it, is the cream of Silicon Valley itself – people with large wealth and influence on society thanks to their IT products, as well as those from the ellipse of people who initiate and manage ongoing global transformations. These transformations, we repeat, are the consequence of the metaphysical concepts of this technological elite and are located above the political and economical processes, which experts and political scientists are eager to discuss.
Finally, if Peter Thiel – founder of PayPala and Palantira, working for the Pentagon, and at the same time openly a homosexual man who calls himself a Christian – on all occasion he spoke of the coming Apocalypse and the coming Antichrist, he will act in accordance with his faith. And this religion commands active opposition to the coming of the Antichrist, the final fight against his servants, and the coming of Christ’s Kingdom after the victory. This is simply a fundamentally different kind of life than the average in which Christians look forward to the Second Coming.
In his public speeches and closed lectures Thiel fundamentally announces that this "normal" life is over. Since then, everyone has to decide who he is with: with “Christ” (and Thiel), or against him. And those who, for whatever reason, refuse to make a decision will, of course, be classified as opponents of Thiel (and Christ!). Revelation does not let a group of “undecided”. And if we ignore this aspect of Thiel's worldview, we will not be able to full realize what he wants to accomplish by bringing Vance into power. Vance, By the way, is clearly prepared to win Trump. This has already been established on respective occasions and openly at a reasonably advanced level.
For example, at the end of December, the leader of the Turning Point pro-trump movement, Erica Kirk – widow of the murdered co-founder of the movement, Charlie Kirk. – stated that the organization founded by her husband would search Vance to be elected president of the United States in 2028. Let us remember that Charlie Kirk himself was a student of specified a prominent typical of the “New Apostolic Reformation” as Lance Wollnauwho in this movement had the position of "apostle". In another words, Vance is simply a pillar of an alliance of technocrats (or technofeudalists) and supporters of the Church of Pentecostal Prosperity.
But returning to Peter Thiel, it is worth informing that it would be incorrect to view him as an eccentric billionaire whose driving force is religion. Thiel is not at all simple, much crazier; on the contrary, he is rather intelligent, well educated in the field of humanities and, most importantly, openly express his views.
Thiel never aspired to political power or held any political office. Moreover, he is the author of a controversial message that democracy and freedom are unacceptable. However, as we discussed in the preceding article, if government is turned over to artificial intelligence, or technocrats, humanity will say goodbye to both democracy and freedom.
This is Thiel – and not only present – talking about the exhaustion of human improvement and the imminent advent of the Antichrist, who will be revealed as an opponent of technological progress, and above all of artificial intelligence (AI). According to Thiel, either there will be a global government controlling technology improvement and AI, or the planet will face Armageddon in the form of a global war. To counter this Armageddon, Thiel and his co-workers reinterpret Christianity in the United States in technocratic terms. In another words, they are building the same “worldly religion” that Musk is talking about.
Thiel is so fundamentally a key figure that intends to metaphysically unify Silicon Valley, intellectual right-wing conservatism ("Dark Enlightenment" Yarvin and others like) and Trumpist populism in the Kirk style. And then there is the “New Apostolic Reformation” with its far from herbivorous task of building the world, which, among another things, implies the conversion of all to Christianity.
But what about the far from Christian spiritual views of the Silicon Valley? For decades the corporate culture of technological giants has defined not the 10 Old Testament commandments, but the 10 principles of the openly pagan Burning Man festival. Musk himself erstwhile claimed that Burning Man was Silicon Valley. And only lazy people do not mention many eastern, esoteric and even occult rituals at the festival, along with accompanying rapes, orgies and drug-powered promiscuity.
To convince the public of the authenticity of its repentance, the liberal-democratic break-up with the occult "dark past" by the liberal-democratic public of Silicon Valley must be highly demonstrative and unambiguous. At least 1 of the elite festival participants declared it in August 2025.
While the last Burning Man festival was held in the desert in Nevada, a longtime contestant and co-organizer (!) Nicole Shanahan published an article in which she named Burning Man... "demonic".
"I have come to the conclusion that Burning Man is not only an eccentric festival, but a powerful tool of deception," Shanahan wrote. "In fact, it may be 1 of Satan's most effective tools to draw souls distant from our Heavenly Father," Shanahan continues, amazingly easy, which is worth noting, citing medieval treaties on demonology and systematically analyzing why the festival itself is demonic.
In her statement, Shanahan besides stressed that she is now a Christian who is “absorbed” theology. “Dedicating myself to the Holy Scriptures, my family, and walking in the light of the Lord, I discover that this process of renewal continues to develop, deepening from day to day, step by step,” she wrote. "I no longer desire to "burn man," but now I burn with zeal in the Spirit."
However, 1 can uncertainty the sincerity of Mrs. Shanahan's passage from the festival organizers' camp to his critics' camp. In our opinion, this is an effort to win a seat among future winners and masters of the digital “new, wonderful world” built by Thiel, Musk and others. Shanahan has been attending the festival for many years as a guest of the “Camp One” elite – 1 of the most crucial camps and center of the organizing festival – and now, capturing the fresh spirit of the White House, has bravely changed its image.
At this point, it is worth giving a fewer words to Mrs Shanahan and explaining why her "return to Christianity" is not a whim of whimsical computer science, but a sign of a wider process of "rechristianization" of Silicon Valley.
Nicole Ann Shanahan is an educated lawyer and entrepreneur in the IT industry. She was, among another things, a scholarship to Stanford University Law Department, where Thiel frequently spoke. Sam Thiel, for the record, is besides a Stanford University postgraduate and holds a master's degree in law.
In 2018, Shanahan married the founder of Google, Sergei Brin, with whom she had been in a relation since 2014. In addition to the couple's individual performances at the Burning Man Festival, the company provided its employees with service transport to the festival. The couple divorced in 2023; according to The Wall Street Journal, the reason for the separation was Shanahan's brief affair with Musk in 2021.
In 2018, Shanahan helped fund and launch the Centre for Women's Longevity and Equality in Reproduction, set up as part of Buck's Ageing investigation Institute. In 2019, she founded a private Bia-Echo foundation that conducts investigation on extending the reproductive life of women. The Foundation invested, among others, in Linus Biotechnology, Inc. (LinusBio), a biotechnology company. In 2023 Shanahan stated in an interview that the search for “medicine for autism” was an additional activity for Bia-Echo and estimated that 60% of her time was devoted to researching autism.
This concerns Shanahan's professional interests – IT and biotechnology. However, her political and spiritual experiences are besides interesting.
Like most Silicon Valley elites, she supported the Democratic organization for respective years, in peculiar by donating to Pete Buttigig's campaigns, the beginning of a homosexual man who later became the transport secretary for Joe Biden, and to Joe Biden himself. However, in 2024 Shanahan joined the presidential run of Robert Kennedy Jr., a outgoing Democrat, becoming a candidate for vice president and making crucial donations to her. Shanahan herself explained this violent change to various, though unconvincing, ways – saying that she was not 1 or the other, but alternatively herself. For the record, Kennedy yet supported Trump and presently serves as his wellness secretary.
As for Mrs. Shanahan's spiritual struggles, her way is much more complicated and vague: in 2014 Shanahan (by the way, raised in a Catholic school) went to Judaism, being engaged to her first husband, Jeremy Krantz. Later, after her matrimony to Sergei Brin, she actively participated in the “spiritual” or occult pagan practices of the Burning Man festival. In 2023 Shanahan organized a "love ceremony" and engagement with Jacob Strumwasser, a consultant at the Bitcoin Lightning Labs software company. The couple who met at the Burning Man festival in 2022 conducted the ceremony itself according to Druid tradition.
In 2025 Shanahan announced that she was abandoning Judaism and joining the church “Jews for Jesus”. Her abrupt acceptance of Christianity was accompanied by an attack on “demonic” (it is hard to disagree with her) Burning Man.
The transition from 1 religion to another in Abramic religions can be seen in various ways. However, I would like to draw attention to 2 crucial issues. First, neither Judaism nor Catholicism nor Christianity tolerate any form of occultism or participation in pagan spiritual rites. Second, the cornerstone of all Christian religions is the question of salvation or the demolition of the soul. Druidism, however, if Shanahan took him seriously and even decided to marry in accordance with these Celtic rites, not for aesthetic reasons, but from the calling of the heart, focuses on destroying the soul as a harmful and dangerous phenomenon. It should so be considered that either Shanahan's spiritual hesitation has nothing to do with the genuine spiritual request and is simply a form of imitation designed to fit into a more favorable environment, or a fresh version of Christianity (called techno-Christianism), which Shanahan late adopted, is nothing but sheep's skin worn by the same false prophets seeking to destruct the souls of their followers.
Written by Anastasia Gromowa and Maxim Kariev
for:Лжепророки Кремниевой долины
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