{"id":42130,"date":"2017-11-02T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=42130"},"modified":"2017-11-02T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T10:42:24","slug":"the-paca-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/11\/the-paca-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"The PACA Plan and the Second American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A flyer about the PACA (\u201cPray America Christian Again\u201d) Plan<\/a> was stuck on the outside door of my church, and the person who found it gave it to me. It is an effort not to simply pray, but to try to get Christians elected in all government positions. From the flyer, one learns that they have some specific Christians in mind, since Hillary\u00a0Clinton is vilified with either no awareness of the fact, or no willingness to recognize, that she is a Christian herself.<\/p>\n

Whoever put this together\u00a0isn\u2019t advocating a violent coup\u00a0\u2013 yet \u2013 but the plan, and the language used to justify it,\u00a0will nonetheless remind a lot of readers of this blog of a kind of prequel to\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/em>. Listen to this language from the PACAPlan website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Let us be clear from the start. We will no doubt be blasphemed by the anti-Christian media as wanting to implement a Puritan theocracy. Puritanism moderated into a Constitutional Republic implemented by profoundly Christian men. That original Constitutional Republic, slow-dripped high-jacked by non-Christians for the last 100 years, \u00a0is all we strive to return to; where laws were just when conforming to Christian ideals of morality and were unjust when in contradiction to God\u2019s will. We will not allow ourselves to be intimidated to inaction by mere words again.<\/p>\n

We are in a run-up to a second American Civil War and the non-Christian propagandists for that war are on a war footing\u2026<\/p>\n

The second Civil War will pit New York City against South, North, West, Southwest and Midwest. Although you would not know this fact, because you will not be fighting non-Christians from NYC, but instead would be fighting NYC\u2019s mercenary army of pandered, misguided, underclass, foot soldiers from across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to have started here in Indiana, and thus far to be limited to this state. I\u2019m going to guess that this will probably be the first that most or perhaps indeed all readers of this blog have heard of it. The website says:<\/p>\n

If Indiana cannot go PACA, cannot provide inspiration for the rest of the country, \u00a0then there is no hope for any State to go PACA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They don\u2019t seem much more fond of Donald Trump than of Hilary Clinton, since both have New York connections, and they seem to hate New York more than anything or anyone else.<\/p>\n

This union of politics with religion makes it seem appropriate to share this tweet by Nebuchadnezzar that Phil Ledgerwood shared in a comment<\/a> after first posting it on Fred Clark\u2019s blog:<\/p>\n

\"Make<\/p>\n

Hebrew captives not bowing to statue when anthem plays? BAD PATRIOTISM. Will fire them, literally. #MakeBabylonGreatAgain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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