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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: AdrianC ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Pudgy demon tells Pontiff to watch step
Date: 04/16/26 8:14 AM
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Maybe Republicans are right. Has the pope even read the Bible? | Opinion
usatoday.com - Trump johnson just war doctrine catholic pope leo
All this started when Pope Leo took a ridiculous 'war is bad' stance and found himself facing off against U.S. figures like JD Vance, President Donald Trump and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Is it just me, or does it seem like Pope Leo XIV won’t stop talking about religion?

He’s all “the Gospel says this” and “Jesus taught us that” – dude, we get it, you’re head of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church. But does that really make you an expert?

As our Catholic Vice President JD Vance, who has a book coming out on his conversion to Catholicism, said, “I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”

Exactly. Vance has been a Catholic since 2019, the year Lil Nas X’s "Old Town Road" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, so I’d take his warning seriously, Pope. He’s seven years deep into the Catholic faith – you don’t wanna mess with him. He’s part of the new Catholicism, the one that’s afraid to say “transubstantiation” because it sounds woke and has “trans” in it.
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