Subject: Re: New or fake?
declare an independent USian Catholic church, and appoint himself Pope?

Then an untold (but fully NON-TAXABLE) bunch of "pseudo-Catholic" denominations AND Popes begin to pop up all over the US.

The Church of the AK-47. AR-15. Autofire. The Holy Hand Grenade. And so on.

Religious wars begin in 3-2-1....