Then there was a turn: Prominent technologists began evangelizing not tech as religion but religion as religion. Earlier this year, I found myself in an expensive condo, converted from a church, in San Francisco’s Mission District, listening to a venture capitalist turned arms dealer recite parts of the Lord’s Prayer to a crowd of 200 techies. Inspired by a religious speech Peter Thiel gave at a private birthday party a few years earlier, this VC’s wife launched a group called ACTS 17 Collective—Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society—as a means of spreading the gospel to Silicon Valley. The actual gospel, not the tidy solutionism of technology.