Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference held on April 7, 2022 in Miami, Florida. © Marco Bello/Getty Images
American-German billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, will give a controversial series of lectures on Antichrist this week in Rome, which, as many media report, has met with criticism from officials and institutions associated with the Vatican. Thiel is inactive under scrutiny due to his ties to the deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The conference, which is restricted, began on Sunday and will last until Wednesday, is held in a secret location close the Vatican.
The content of the lectures – closed to the media and subject to strict safety measures – is unclear, but they are expected to focus on Thiel's explanation that the Biblical Antichrist may appear not as a sinister figure, but as "security actor" and a heroic admin whose goal is to manage technological risk.
This figure, according to Thiel, will usage existential fears specified as artificial intelligence, climate change and atomic war to convince the planet to unite under 1 centralized government.
According to the magazine ‘Fortune’, Thiel's imagination fundamentally "connects theological language with Silicon Valley concerns about artificial intelligence, transhumanism and the failure of meaning".
CNN besides noted that a billionaire believes the Antichrist could come "not necessarily as a person, but... as a global government system".
Vatican-related institutions tried to distance themselves from a billionaire.
Although first media reports reported that the event would be held at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas of Aquinas – the alma mater of Pope Leon XIV – the institution denied any connection to the event.
Avvenire, a Milan paper belonging to a conference of Italian bishops, published an article stating that "Peter Thiel does not believe in the anticipation of redeeming humanity," arguing that his imagination favors elite ‘superplutocracy’which "would monitor and defend humanity from the coming of the Antichrist".
Thiel – whose Palantir company has rich contracts with the Pentagon – is under scrutiny due to its long-standing ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to the German list ‘Speel’, both exchanged hundreds of emails between 2014 and 2019.
Epstein called Thiela his ‘great friend’ and invested $40 million in the Valar Ventures fund, co-founded by Thiel.
Epstein repeatedly invited Thiel to his infamous island, although spokesperson Thiela denied that he always accepted the invitation.
Epstein's death in a 2019 fresh York prison was considered suicide, but spawned conspiracy theories that the execution was intended to prevent evidence from being given about his ties to the American establishment.
In particular, Epstein had proven ties with Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, erstwhile Prince Andrew, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and many another influential personalities.
Thiel denied any abuse or individual cognition of Epstein's crimes, admitting that "did not ask adequate questions" about his past erstwhile they first met in 2014.
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