Trump Ally Peter Thiel Brings Antichrist Lectures To Vatican’s Doorstep After Attacking ‘woke American Pope’

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is presently successful Rome delivering a four-part speech bid outlining his beliefs astir nan Antichrist connected nan Vatican’s doorstep, having antecedently attacked Pope Leo XIV arsenic a “woke American pope.”

Thiel, 58, a co-founder of PayPal and nan information mining institution Palantir, delivered nan first of nan bid Sunday and will coming 3 consequent instalments connected Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week, successful which he will reportedly explicate his analyzable individual accuracy regarding nan imminence of Armageddon.

The speech bid is invitation-only, nary signaling devices are permitted wrong nan venues – nan locations of which person many times changed – and 2 Catholic universities antecedently tied to nan convention person denied their involvement.

Thiel, who grew up successful an evangelical Christian household, delivered a akin group of talks successful San Francisco past September, which again took spot down closed doors; illicit recordings subsequently leaked, and The Guardian posted extensive excerpts.

In those speeches, nan tech investor was heard defining himself arsenic “a libertarian, aliases a classical liberal, who deviates successful 1 insignificant detail, wherever I’m worried astir nan Antichrist,” which he characterized arsenic “a belief descriptor of nan forces of evil” aliases “an evil king aliases tyrant aliases anti-Messiah who appears successful nan extremity times.”

Thiel told his assemblage of predominantly young antheral professionals successful California that he believed nan End of Days would beryllium brought astir by an Antichrist fig who encourages a fearfulness of existential threats against humanity successful bid to consolidate power, giving climate change, AI and atomic warfare arsenic examples of topics they mightiness usage to instil worry astir a coming Third World War.

Thiel said specified a personification would usage nan ensuing paranoia to warrant a push toward a one-world authorities and nan enforced stagnation of technological advancement and technological advances, thing he believes is already underway.

Seeing nan Antichrist arsenic some an individual and a malign unit compelling nan unification of nan world nether a azygous world authorities has prompted Thiel to reason specified world organizing bodies arsenic nan United Nations and nan International Criminal Court.

His earlier speech series, characterized arsenic “diffuse, meandering and often confusing” by The Guardian, besides saw him pass against Pope Leo arsenic a “woke American pope” and anti-science “Luddites” specified arsenic nan ambiance activistic Greta Thunberg.

He besides mused connected nan domiciled President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Gavin Newsom, and Zohran Mamdani mightiness play successful his cosmology.

The talks were peppered pinch popular taste references, pinch Thiel alluding to everything from Jonathan Swift and JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of nan Rings to Alan Moore’s Watchmen while uncovering clip for broadside swipes against his tech manufacture peers, Bill Gates and Marc Andreessen.

Responding to his presence successful Italy, Il Messaggero quotes an effort by nan Catholic theologian Father Paolo Benanti, primitively published successful Le Grand Continent, successful which nan leader critiqued nan self-styled prophet’s bleak message arsenic depicting a nine “incapable of self-government” successful which “the only replacement to apocalypse would beryllium a technocratic bid imposed by an elite of rulers.”

He continued: “In this vision, populist understood arsenic nan self-government of adjacent citizens is already dormant – and each that remains, successful nan acheronian of a information center, is nan objective guidance of its corpse.”

Benanti considers Thiel’s speaking circuit “a prolonged enactment of heresy against wide consensus: a situation to nan very foundations of civilian coexistence,” Il Messaggero concludes.

At home, Thiel has happily aligned himself pinch nan Trump administration, personally donating to nan president’s 2016 campaign, while Palantir is among those helping to salary for nan caller ballroom being constructed successful spot of nan East Wing of nan White House.

The institution has besides inked an statement pinch ICE to streamline nan process of identifying group nan agency is targeting for deportation, a move that led to protesters targeting Thiel’s last San Francisco speech pinch placards that publication “Predatory Tech”, “We Do Not Profit from People Who Profit from Misery,” and “Not Today Satan”.

Thiel is besides known to beryllium adjacent to nan vice president, having supported Vance's early profession successful task superior and having poured millions of dollars into his successful bid for nan Ohio Senate successful 2022.

While nan billionaire whitethorn return objection to Pope Leo, nan Chicago-born pontiff has arsenic made his guidance to nan Trump management clear, precocious criticising nan Iran conflict and past March sharing an article connected societal media opposing its curen of migrants pinch nan headline: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t inquire america to rank our emotion for others.”

Leo besides warned Catholic priests successful February against being seduced by “illusion connected nan internet” and the dangers of AI, conscionable arsenic Thiel warned nan Antichrist mightiness do.