Apart from Peter Theil himself, who is somewhat central to this movement, the people listed here are all involved in some way in reinterpreting Christianity visa-vi a so called 'Dark Enlightenment' : René Girard - The philosophical source. He's the thinker whose "mimetic theory" (that people desire things because others desire them, leading to rivalry, violence, and scapegoating) forms the entire intellectual foundation of this movement's theology. Girard himself converted to Catholicism and saw Christ's crucifixion as exposing the scapegoat mechanism. Thiel studied under/was heavily influenced by him and built his own darker political theology on top of Girard's ideas. John Locke - Thiel criticizes Locke and Enlightenment philosophers for supposedly dodging the hard truth about violent human nature, leaving humanity as an "unknowable X." Thiel uses this criticism to justify rejecting Enlightenment rationalism in favor of his mimetic-violence worldview. Peter Robinson - The interviewer. He's the Hoover Institution figure who interviewed Thiel, giving Thiel a platform to lay out his apocalyptic, Antichrist-vs-Armageddon theology in detail. Garry Tan - A key organizer. As Y Combinator's CEO, he's one of the "TechnoKings" openly discussing Christian faith, and he hosted/co-founded the ACTS 17 Collective (the Christian tech non-profit) where Thiel gave his talk about the Ten Commandments and mimetic "status games." Trae Stephens - He's a Founders Fund partner, Anduril co-founder, and ACTS 17 co-founder who explicitly frames venture capital and weapons-building (including AI-run autonomous weapons) as compatible with, even expressive of, Christian values like "abundance" and a "moral obligation" to benefit humanity. Michelle Stephens - Co-founder of the institutional home. Trae's wife, an ACTS 17 co-founder and Oath Care chief nursing officer, who articulated the movement's core pitch: that humans will "worship something" and might as well choose God. Russell Brand - A media amplifier. Cited as someone whose Christian "proselytising" thrives on the Thiel-backed Rumble platform, part of the broader alternative-media ecosystem promoting this resurgence of tech-world Christianity. Hulk Hogan, Shia LaBeouf, Rob Schneider, Kat Von D, Candace Owens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Cultural signal boosters. These are named together as celebrities/"talking heads" who conspicuously converted to Christianity (mainly Catholicism) around the same period, which the article treats as evidence of a broader cultural moment being cultivated alongside the tech-elite version, though it questions whether this reflects genuine values or something more like branding. John Foster Dulles - A historical reference point. He's cited in connection with a 1942 Time magazine article the neoreactionaries use to argue that progressive Christian theology had already merged with political globalism, decades before Thiel and Yarvin, supposedly proving their claim that "the Cathedral" corrupted Christianity through globalist entanglement. "The Cathedral" refers to the informal, self-reinforcing network of universities, media, and civil service that spreads dominant progressive ideology.