Image comparing driving styles of pope, pastor false

“Pope Francis uses a modest compact car to get around, while Creflo Dollar drives an expensive sports car.” — Viral Image on Oct. 1 in Facebook posts

The image that showed up in the PolitiFact Georgia inbox had already pinged wildly around social media.

The top part showed the pope waving from the back seat of the small four-door Fiat 500L. Below it was a photo of a driver purported to be College Park megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar, tooling in a shiny silver roadster with an EU license plate.

The reader wondered, could that actually be the lead pastor of World Changers Church International behind those sunglasses, zipping along somewhere in Europe? We wondered too, and decided to do some digging.

The roadster driver is actually rapper Kanye West, making the image clearly false. Even the context — trying to draw distinction between a supposedly humble servant of God with an apparently audacious one — ignores that both the pope and Dollar have ready access to lavish luxuries.

We rated this claim Pants on Fire.

AP Pope Francis waves from inside his car after arriving at Philadelphia International Airport on Sept. 26. The pope made his first papal visit to the United States last month, traveling in the back seat of a modest Fiat 500L.