01350nam a22001457a 4500999001900000008004100019100002600060245010100086260003300187300003400220520080100254773003301055942000701088952010901095  c533746d533746260616b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBhardwaj, Atul961251  aGod, guns, and the pope: Inside the ideological war between Trump’s Washington and the Vatican  aEconomic & Political Weekly   a61(22), May 30, 2026: p.10-12  aThe Trump administration’s embrace of Christian nationalism has produced an unprecedented confrontation with the Vatican. The article traces the triangular relationship between Vice President J D Vance, his patron Peter Thiel, and a papacy that both men have publicly attacked—for different but converging reasons. Where Vance’s quarrel with Leo is political, Thiel’s is eschatological: he regards the church’s resistance to artificial intelligence and technological acceleration as the work of the antichrist. Together, they represent a new kind of power—technologically sovereign, theologically aggressive, and accountable to no one. The real war is not in Iran. It is inside America itself.-Reproduced 


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