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Most people would hesitate to teach theology in Rome if they lacked the requisite qualifications and degrees. That hasn\u2019t stopped Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Republican mega-donor, whose lectures on the antichrist have been the hottest heretical ticket in the city for months, held at the Palazzo Taverna in Rome, just a stone\u2019s throw from the Vatican.<\/p>\n

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His sold-out lectures are not only about garnering attention to his ideas, but also drawing others outside of the technocratic and political worlds into embracing his philosophy. These lectures have been reported on widely by many international publications, and were even lampooned\u00a0on an episode of \u201cSouth Park\u201d\u00a0last October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And according to multiple reports, that includes the belief that the people who strive for peace, work for justice and want to embrace diversity are to blame for western civilization\u2019s supposed ongoing collapse.<\/p>\n

Thiel\u2019s religious beliefs are a mishmash of his political and personal beliefs about technology, civilization, race and democracy. And his views on the antichrist range from the disturbing to the nonsensical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, he has said that he believes the antichrist will push the world toward peace using the fear of war. He also thinks the antichrist would use peace to slow down or even stop technological advances. He\u2019s said it\u2019s possible that climate change activist Greta Thunberg and other critics could be \u201clegionnaires of the Antichrist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a belief structure built on fear \u2014 and Thiel\u2019s fear appears to be that western civilization will be crushed by a myriad of people and forces that don\u2019t adhere to his interpretation of technocratic Christian beliefs.<\/p>\n

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There are some things that a billionaire can\u2019t buy. An understanding of theology without rigorous study is one of them. The man who made his fortune with PayPal and is building an even greater fortune by bringing artificial intelligence to government surveillance with Palantir isn\u2019t obsessed with the antichrist in the \u201cExorcist\u201d sense. His interests are instead an esoteric mashup of teachings from the late French academic Rene Girard\u2019s mimetic theory and the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, who argued that modern thought is a secular belief rather than a religious complex.<\/p>\n

But this is not what the antichrist is in Christian theology.<\/p>\n

Well-trained theologians and the Catholic Church itself have discounted his interpretation of the antichrist. The Italian theologian Father Paolo Benanti called Thiel\u2019s teaching \u201ca sustained act of heresy.\u201d The Jesuit priest Antonio Spadaro describes Thiel\u2019s antichrist teachings as a person\u2019s way of being in the world, rather than an actual figure: \u201cThe Antichrist, rather than a theological figure, is a concrete, identifiable historical possibility. This is the point at which the Gospel is transformed into an instrument of geopolitical analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next time Thiel embarks on his lecture tour to tout his teachings about the antichrist, remember that his lectures are the musings of a man who wants technology to overtake the emotional connections that humans have. The New York Times\u2019 Ross Douthat asked Thiel in a June 2025 interview, \u201cI think you would prefer the human race to endure, right?\u201d After a long hesitation, Thiel replied, \u201cThere\u2019s so many questions implicit in this,\u201d before eventually offering a \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

That should give us all pause.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thiel\u2019s evangelism is another example of how the right has strategically co-opted Christian religious teachings to provide support for their autocratic tendencies, as well as their fears about technology being limited through \u201cwoke\u201d beliefs.<\/p>\n

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