Billionaire GOP Donor Peter Thiel Blames Christianity for ‘Wokeness’: ‘It Always Takes the Side of the Victim’

Billionaire GOP donor Peter Thiel blamed Christianity for the proliferation of “wokeness” in a recent interview, complaining that the religion “always takes the side of the victim.”

In a discussion on the TRIGGERnometry YouTube channel, one of Thiel’s interlocutors mused that wokeness “started at the universities” before ending up all over social media and into the broader culture.

“Yeah, but I still think that was not, again we can — it’s very hard to know these cultural arguments,” replied Thiel. “I don’t know, I’d be open to a sort of a religious interpretation.”

“That it is Christianity, the, you know, the main religion of the Western world. You know, it always takes the side of the victim and there’s something where it is like some kind of deformation or intensification,” argued Thiel. “And maybe you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or hyper-Christianity.”

He continued:

It’s just like an extreme intensification and, you know, it’s maybe there’s no forgiveness and so it’s sort of, it’s you still have original sin and you have all these bad things that happened in the past. The past is terrible and you can never overcome it. But there’s surely a religious interpretation of this is sort of, you know, what happened is, has let’s say the church lost a certain amount of authority, but people didn’t become, you know, rationalist, atheist people. They went into the sort of woke religion, which, you know, has been, which I would interpret as, you know, a certain, you know, extreme form of Christianity.

“There’s a religious interpretation, you know, there’s an economic one, there is an educational one, and you know, there’s obviously some technology piece,” concluded Thiel.

Thiel, the founder of PayPal, is best known politically for his support of JD Vance and Blake Masters’s respective campaigns for U.S. Senate in 2022. While Vance, a Catholic, not only prevailed but was named Donald Trump’s running mate at the Republican National Convention last month, Masters has flamed out in spectacular fashion, most recently losing a Republican House primary.