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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 10 months ago by Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 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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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Absolutely true, I just think that for ~150 years, its been continuous... though that may very well be the case going back much further as well, I'm less well versed in European history than US history.

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I grew up thinking that lol

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Are you still a member of a suprisingly extreme branch of Christianity that just pretends it is normal, or did you bounce off of it, like I did, after actually reading a good deal of the Bible?

[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh yeah I'm an atheist now

[-] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 10 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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