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One of Silicon Valley's most prominent techbros is giving lectures on the Antichrist -- and he thinks it's the Pope (www.thelettersfromleo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39329798

Bet you never thought you'd read that combination of words anywhere other than on the back of a Dan Brown book, did you.

(article is paywalled, unfortunately, but there's enough there to get the gist)

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

Wow how very original.

The Pope is the AntiChrist?

Really?

I'm fairly sure that for at least the past 150 years, at least one either fairly prominent or at least fairly loud Protestant sect or denomination has been claiming the current Pope is the AntiChrist.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I grew up thinking that lol

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    What's weird isn't someone calling [insert current Pope here] the Antichrist, but the fact that this time it's Peter Thiel saying it.

    That's just something I expect from Christian conservatives, not... whatever kind of conservative Thiel is.

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