I’m still trying to figure out his claim to fame
He's black.
He's from South Africa.
He lived through apartheid.
Ergo: He's a fricking saint and everyone in the world should send him all their money and hang on his every word as divine and go to see the movie Invictus at least a dozen times.
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Tutu is head of a religious group of about 100,000 people. Some Archbishop. There are individual churches in South Korea (Methodist and other Christian) that are way bigger.