‘Popesplaining’ Is Born After Random Twitterer Tells the Pope to Read the Bible

That's it everybody. We can pack up and go home, because we've officially reached peak Internet. What we're saying is that the most Internet-y thing that could happen just did.

Pope Francis
Pope Francis in the middle of a Twitter battle (not really). (Photo: Gabriel Bouays for Getty Images)

That’s it, everybody. We can pack up and go home, because we’ve officially reached peak Internet. What we’re saying is that the most Internet-y thing that could happen just did.

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The Internet is a place where strangers constantly correct each other, whether or not they know what they’re talking about themselves. Well, a random person just took it upon himself to passive aggressively suggest to the Pope that he read the Bible.

Call us crazy, but we’re guessing that Pope Francis knows a thing or two about the Bible. We’d even go as far to assume that he has indeed read John 14:6.

Obviously, the user who tried to school the Pope on the Bible was trolled mercilessly.

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The thread also spurred quite a religious debate, but we won’t go there.

‘Popesplaining’ Is Born After Random Twitterer Tells the Pope to Read the Bible