Instead of one pope in Rome, now we have thousands of popes in centrally planned religious government buildings on every corner. Joe Salant takes aim at the collectivist sham that Christianity provides a special Politburo of ecclesiastical masterminds to occupy the “clergy class” over and above the plebes in the pews, shows how this age-old idolatrous pagan hierarchical view has stunted the growth and potential of the priesthood of all believers, and calls for the abolition of the clergy/laity divide once and for all.