Doug Wilson

Psalm 144, verse 1, Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my fingers for battle.

Basically, Pope Leo, before he was the pope, was just sort of an ordinary democratic leader.

leftist critic of Trump, right?

And in the recent spat that Trump and the Pope had, it was just Trump being Trump dealing with a political opponent, which is what the Pope was being.

I don't think the Pope was acting in the role of a religious leader, exegeting the scripture there.

I think he was just stating his political convictions, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Right.

Because the reason is, when you have people who are very selective in their indignation, and when you look at the kind of violence that the Iranian regime perpetrates against their own people, like 40,000 people dead, and they did it on purpose, as opposed to blowing up a school by accident, and the Pope is silent on that kind of thing,

and then he turns to go after Trump for conducting this war, I don't see equal weights and measures there.

I don't think Pope Leo is being honest.

Okay, well, my first reaction, I tweeted about it.

I said, somebody needs to figure out how to put this picture onto black velvet so that it can be blasphemous and tacky.

So the picture was blasphemous.

The president's explanation afterwards was that he thought it was a doctor figure, not Jesus.

Do you believe it?

I find that's a stretch, but I'm willing to accept it.

If he took the picture down and said that portraying himself as Jesus is not what he intended, at least we got that.

That was a very good thing.

But I think he was just too...