Reddit Challenge story #8

Topic: The Pope switches jobs with Obama.

In an absolutely unprecedented move in world history on the 12th of November, 2011, head of the Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI and President of the United States Barack Obama agreed to switch jobs with one another. By doing so they would forever change the landscape of politics, and the landscape of the Earth itself. With the United States being a secular state and President Obama not being Catholic, countless problems arose early on, causing devastation on wide levels. The first to strike were the Catholics.
In the Pope’s first public speech from the White House, he denounced the Vatican State and Catholicism as being ungodly and sinful; he then proclaimed that he had been instructed by The Lord God Himself to head a new religion, called Americolicism. Obama believed that the entire event up until those statements was a simple joke they decided to play on the citizens of the world (The Pope had after all, agreed that it would all be “a hilarious prank” to switch places for a few days, when they met over beers secretly in Berlin in 2009.) However, when he saw the saw footage of the speech he was outraged. Knowing he had made a mistake, he attempted to call the armed services to arrest The Pope, only to realize he no longer had the authority to do so.
President Pope Benedict XVI interpreted the actions of Pope Obama I to be an act of war and immediately decided to launch a nuclear attack on the Vatican State. Normally, various members of the chain of command each carry separate pieces of the nuclear codes so that the weapons cannot be used by one person without any additional consent. President Pope Benedict however, had most of congress already converted to Americolicism, and he replaced all of the cabinet and senior staff with former Catholic Church leaders; he could use the bombs as he pleased.

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