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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One.

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It's an open line Friday, 877973-725. If you want to be on the program, it is Eric Erickson, just in case you're wondering, and yes, that's my real name. Okay, I want to put a nice, tidy bow on Habamos Popham, so we can move on to other news, because there's a lot of other news here. But there is news and I have to correct the record. ABC News led me astray yesterday.

It is with great sadness that I have to correct the record. And it is with great sadness that I have to reveal to you one of the worst things you will learn about New Pope Leo the 14th, and that is that he is not a Cubs fan, as originally reported by the news. He is a White Sox fan. The Seventh-day Adventist might be right. He might actually be the Antichrist. But a buddy of mine pointed out that if the Pope is a white socks fan,

that's very Christ-like, given how many losers Jesus hung out with. So, I mean, there is that.

So he has given his first homily now, and I realize

that there are like over half of you who are Baptist or Presbyteria, like we don't care.

But you can get a sense of who this new world leader is. And there's a larger point here,

so bear with me, but let me read you part of his homily.

Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurdment for the weak and unintelligent.

Settings where other securities are preferred, like technology, money, success, power, or pleasure.

There are contexts where it is not easy to preach the gospel or bear witness to its truth, where believers are mocked, opposed, despised, or at best tolerated and pitied. Yet precisely, for this reason,

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