On the media: Politician pope

Physical: The pope came to America to come and speak to those that follow him, support him, and people in high places.This was in a sense historical because only three popes in history have come to America to speak. Social media, as always when something big happens, ate this up with all of the hashtags and millions of tweets about Pope Francis. Every time you turned on the television you would, and still do see the pope.

Psychological: People view the pope as an important, powerful, and awesome figure, so with the news that he was coming to America it made almost the whole nation fall on their face in amazement. Especially those that do look at him as a religious intercessor, they felt especially privileged almost as if the pope being here would bless America in some way. People were gathering by the masses just to see him and hear him speak, even traveling from across the country just to catch a glimpse.

Social: Obviously in a situation like this words can be twisted, and the story can be told the exact opposite of what really happened. The fact that this epidemic was so big on social media made it that much bigger and exclusive in real-time. With all of the news and media outlets you can be influenced to believe that the pope plays a pivotal part in this upcoming election, or the opposite that he is just a man here preaching peace and acceptance, either way social media, and media in general have a way of contorting and blurring the vision and perceptions of the media consumers, and in this case there is a lot of twisted logic and confusion in regards to the popes real intentions as far as him visiting America.

Culture: At this point and in this particular instance cultures and opinions are definitely going to collide especially the opinions of Liberals. Somewhere along the line something the pope said sounded like, "let all immigrants in." at-least to them that's what it sounded like. Listening to certain people they make it seem as if the pope is just coming in peacefully and being made out to be a victim or being looked at in a false light.

Temporal: This story comes at a perfect time, or has perfect timing in my eyes. In the same week the blood moon occurs, Donald trump running for president, and this "holy man" visiting America. I don't think that this story will die out to be honest, I think that the pope is going to be in the public eye for quite some time and continue to have an influence on America. This isn't going to be your average rise and fall type of story.

My Stance: Listening to on the media, they made some good points and good arguments, but I don't necessarily agree with all of those points. When I see the pope and how he has been portrayed, and how he has portrayed himself in the media, he seems like an undercover politician, and a slick talker. He often says things that people don't catch. And from a religious standpoint he never really mentions Jesus, but he did mention that Jesus failed on the cross. He has an influence on America already because he has conformed to the generation. I think that he will continue to have an large influence on America and a large say after a while. From a spiritual standpoint I don't really feel comfortable with him and I feel like he is setting people up very subtly and smoothly.