Are You Saying That the Pope Is a Hypocrite Forgoing to the Hospital?

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The pope talks like a religious person, but he acts like an atheist. He actually goes to a doctor. I know people doing things how they would act circumstances. And the behavior of christian is pretty much one that asis would likeppe. The promotion of atheism assumes that the behaviourofis the thought that mater is not the behaviour.

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