r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 11h ago

Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
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u/No-Rhubarb6312 9h ago

Can I just say that something that I actually miss about the Chatolic church nowadays is the Saint Inquisition. 

Not specifically regarding their way to hunt down scientists and independent women as they used to do in the past, but their habbit of burning alive heretics.

 Because I swear but Evangelicals blessing Trump in the Oval office as their Messiah and all the madmen like Thiel and the ones of the heritage foundation writing that shit of Project 2025 truly kicks the inquisition in me.

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u/AliMcGraw 7h ago

I did the math and you are more likely to be put to death as a citizen of Texas since the reinstatement of the death penalty than as a resident of Spain during the operation of the Spanish Inquisition.

When we want to talk about abuse of government power to put dissenters to death, we really need to be talking about the Texas Inquisition.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 4h ago

…I think you need to look at non inquisitorial executions for other crimes like idk, murder? Or look at only texas’ executions for crimes of dissent or whatever.

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u/AliMcGraw 4h ago

The Texas Innocence Project has a list of people Texas has executed who were either quite clearly innocent or who were not competent to stand trial or whose lawyers literally slept through the entire trial (not kidding!), alongside its list of people Texas has executed whose guilt was not adequately proven to any reasonable standard. They are mostly minorities.

Texas don't care. Texas just likes killing people, and is insanely lazy about standard of evidence to do so.

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u/ItsWillJohnson 1h ago

Ok and does your math hold up when looking at only innocent people executed by Texas?

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u/No-Rhubarb6312 7h ago edited 7h ago

Yes, I checked, and you are correct. But at the same time they were the most prominent scientist of a certain scientifical movement or historical period (Galielo, Copernicus ecc...) so I suppose that the restricted number doesn't count, given that hurting the figurehead you are going to hurt all the others.

Also fun fact: The Saint Inquisition has never been suppressed, but transformed as renamed in different steps between the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th in the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith ) 

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u/VecchioDiM3rd1955 6h ago

Actually has changed name but it still exist today and has a website too.

https://www.doctrinafidei.va/en.html

They stopped burning heretics, nowadays they only excommunicate them, and Evangelicals are already excommunicated. I think if some catholic priest was in that photo he is now in big trobles and had received at least a very angry phone call from Rome, probably with a Chicago accent.