If you'd like to support this work through a channel membership, here's the link! https://www.youtube.com/@culturefaithandpolitics/join Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon: "A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024): https://a.co/d/iVSTqny "MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ Follow Mark Ramm on Substack: https://theramm.transparencycascade.org/p/the-power-the-pope-warned-about-has Peter Thiel and JD Vance are building a future that doesn't need God — and Pope Leo XIV is the one man with the standing to call it what it is. In this episode of the Culture, Faith, and Politics Podcast, Pat Kahnke sits down with Mark Ramm to unpack the collision between Silicon Valley's most powerful MAGA billionaire and the Vatican's vision of what it means to be human. Peter Thiel has openly framed anyone who wants to restrain technology — including the Pope — as a "Luddite," and in his own lectures, a force of the Antichrist. When a New York Times interviewer asked Thiel whether the human race should even survive, he hesitated. That pause tells you everything about the worldview now funding the MAGA movement through his protégé, Vice President JD Vance. We break down: • Why Peter Thiel treats technology as salvation — and regulation as heresy • The "Peter Thiel Antichrist" framing and what it reveals about transhumanism • How JD Vance carries Thiel's "I don't care about AI safety" creed into the White House • Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on data colonialism, the transnational tech elite, and power that surpasses the state • The "Two Warehouses" — how detention centers, data centers, and attention farms expose the real cost of this vision • Why the Pope insists our humanity, not our technology, is what's magnificent This is a conversation about transhumanism, Christian nationalism, and the theology hiding inside Silicon Valley's politics — and why the fight between the tech billionaires and the Pope may define the next decade.