Thiel bombs with the Vatican

[applegrove]

Peter Thiel—who played a key role in JD Vance's conversion to Catholicism—just cannot stop talking about the Antichrist.

He just took his Antichrist circus to Rome, where an advisor to the Pope exposed the true meaning of Thiel’s bizarre religious delusions.

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels...

— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) 2026-03-20T19:25:53.240Z

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. "The priest hits Thiel for weaponizing Ren Girard's theory of mimetic desire--the theory that people learn desire by"

The priest hits Thiel for weaponizing René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire—the theory that people learn desire by imitating other people—in a demented search for the “perfect algorithmic implementation” of its destructive force. Benanti points to Thiel’s early investment in Facebook as an effort to create “a device designed to amplify and monetize mimetic desire on a planetary scale.”

[rampartd]

2. "mimetic desire" "monkey see, monkey want."

here is the original article.

https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels-antichrist-circus-smacked-down-in-rome/

[Tasmanian Devil]

5. Here's the paper that he was writing about ...

I couldn't find an English version, this is a google translate of Paolo Benanti's paper. He is the 'Artificial intelligence advisor to the Pope'

American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake?

https://legrandcontinent-eu.translate.goog/fr/2026/03/14/thiel-heresie-benanti/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

[ananda]

3. He must think Italians are as stupid as Americans...

and can be easily manipulated.

!@#$%

[tanyev]

4. Peter, if there's any truth in the Antichrist lore invented by John Nelson Darby in the 1800s,

then you only have to look at your buddy Trump to see someone who matches all the ballyhooed descriptions.

[yellow dahlia]

6. Truth!

[DoBW]

7. he's one of the experts right?

Thiel, Trump, Epstein >>
The Three Antichrist Amigos

[UTUSN]

8. He would have done better under the "popes" who did orgies.