Peter Thiel's controversial Antichrist lectures have reached Rome, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Vatican. Priest Paolo Benanti, who has advised Pope Francis on AI ethics, condemned Thiel as a "political theologian operating at the very heart of the Silicon Valley ecosystem" and accused him of heresy against civil coexistence.

Benanti attacked Thiel for weaponizing religious concepts to justify greed and authoritarianism, highlighting his perversion of René Girard's theory of mimetic desire. The priest connected Thiel's ideas to the TESCREAL movement and exposed how Thiel's early investment in Facebook aimed to "amplify and monetize mimetic desire on a planetary scale."

Thiel appears to be positioning himself as a religious authority figure, but his inarticulate, conspiracy-theory-style arguments suggest he may be unfit for the role. Despite Vatican warnings, Thiel continues his Antichrist world tour, inadvertently revealing Silicon Valley's strategy to weaponize religion in its war against democratic institutions.