{"id":81736,"date":"2025-10-16T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81736\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:04:07","slug":"why-peter-thiel-became-the-exorcist-in-tonights-south-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81736\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Peter Thiel Became the Exorcist in Tonight\u2019s \u2018South Park\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much to the confusion of childless fans over the age of 30<\/a>, this week\u2019s episode of\u00a0South Park, \u201cTwisted Christian,\u201d took inspiration from the \u201c6-7\u201d meme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After South Park Elementary\u2019s students obsess over the viral joke, Power Christian Principal becomes concerned that something nefarious is going on. So, despite the fact that Jesus Christ is literally a school employee, he decides to seek help from the \u201chighest authority on Biblical prophecies\u201d around: Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n

And, yes, he has his own theme song, \u201cPeter Thiel Knows About the Antichrist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The billionaire venture capitalist then lectures the kids about the coming of the Antichrist, aka Satan and Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cButt Baby.\u201d Thiel explains that God prevented the coming of the Antichrist by shrinking Satan\u2019s asshole so that \u201cnothing could ever penetrate or ejaculate inside of it.\u201d Until Donald Trump came along, that is. Apparently the president\u2019s \u201cpenis is so teeny-tiny it could actually fit in Satan\u2019s asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the end, Cartman\u2019s vomit-inducing laughter prompts Thiel to assume he\u2019s possessed by a demon, paving the way for a parody of\u00a0The Exorcist that includes a \u201cTubular Bells\u201d-esque version of\u00a0\u201cPeter Thiel Knows About the Antichrist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why is the PayPal guy suddenly playing Max Von Sydow to Cartman\u2019s Linda Blair? Viewers who haven\u2019t been checking up on Thiel lately may not be aware that he recently gave four two-hour lectures about the antichrist\u00a0\u201con behalf of ACTS 17 Collective,\u201d a nonprofit \u201cdedicated to Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

While the lectures were private, they made headlines after recordings leaked to the media. And somehow, the content of those lectures was even more unhinged than anything he said on the most recent\u00a0South Park. It\u2019s one thing to try and exorcise a 10-year-old kid in order to prevent the birth of Satan and Trump\u2019s love child, it\u2019s quite another to suggest that the Antichrist might be\u00a0either 22-year-old activist Greta Thunberg or \u201cA.I. doomer\u201d Eliezer Yudkowsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,\u201d Thiel said during one lecture. \u201cIn the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It\u2019s someone like Greta or Eliezer.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether or not a jaunty theme song would have made these lectures seem less embarrassingly deranged.\u00a0<\/p>\n