Straight from the Pope's mouth

[The Grand Nudger]

It seem that there is quite a lot of them in the USA. They seem to have priests there who have been playing the end of times there for decades.
In fact, some of the United States sects are founded on the notion of end times, such as the Bible Students group, which was later renamed to Jehovah's witnesses.

More like real estate speculators and politicians than priests.  The witnesses and the mormons both came out of the burned over district, where any number of scams found their marks in the religiously gullible.   The textbook example being to acquire allegedly worthless but productive bottomland from their anxious flock in return for safer (but -actually- worthless) ridgetop land...you know.... to escape the coming flood.

You'd think that would only work one time, but you'd be wrong. End times superstition remains a profit center to this day. The people telling our contemporary dolts that the local school board are the horns of the beast are, to a man, selling something. The current pope among them, for his own reasons and with his own marketing for his own brand. Picking him was an issue of managing their image after the last fuck up and with the demographics of catholic faith in mind..but the whole thing is so rotten that the best and nicest Buddy Pope From The Americas they could find was still implicated in a military fucking junta and their death lists. He may, in fact, have moved through the ranks precisely because of that, to one day be enthroned in place of god on earth.