fandomhigh | Current Affairs [Thursday, December 5, 2013]

"Hello, everyone," Josh said. "I hope you enjoyed your turkey, or in my case, eight solid days of fried things as well as gifts of socks and underwear because my mom really knows how to make Hannukah special. Today we're gonna talk about the Pope because I'm tired of talking about the Affordable Care Act. Now I'm not Catholic, but my last two bosses were, plus they had the Pontiff on speed dial because sometimes it's pretty freaking awesome to be the President of the United States. The new pope released a document recently that denounced poverty and inequality and called on the Church to focus less on money, which seems fairly standard. But then he also mentioned how trickle-down economics doesn't work and decried the tyranny of unfettered capitalism, and now all of the conservative pundits, who love Popes when they are going on about abortion and gay marriage, now start wondering if Pope Francis is a closet Marxist.

"Putting aside how Marxism is pretty explicit about rejecting religion, what do you think it is about this particular message--which is hardly groundbreaking stuff--that is getting the right wing so upset?"

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Greedily.

Is the Pope sekritly controlled by communists?!

Yeah, Josh doesn't think so either.

Have some marzipan. Eww, marzipan.

Running out of days to get everything done, omfg.

Gertrude Yorkes

"Pretty sure the real lesson to be learned here is that the Church is controlled by hypocrites," Gert argued. "As if the Pope would have half the power he has now if his fanbase wasn't mostly made of overpaid zealots who want to pour their money into their Sunday hobby."

"There's that," Josh agreed, "but a growing portion of the Church is in really poor parts of the world. Is he just catering to his constituency?"

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