The venue was undisclosed. The guest list was sealed. No phones, no recording devices, no press. Somewhere in Rome this week, Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder, Palantir architect, and the man whose money helped carry Donald Trump and JD Vance to the White House, stood before a hand-picked audience of academics, technologists, and conservative Catholics and delivered a lecture on the Antichrist. Not as a historical curiosity. Not as metaphor. As a live and present threat, one that he argued currently wears the respectable face of global governance, AI safety regulation, and environmental caution.
"The Antichrist will not arrive as a tyrant. He will arrive as the most reasonable person in the room."
