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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 2 days 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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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days 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.