Somehow some of these loons have decided that the Keystone State is the key to their kingdom. One problem: Ben Franklin & those demon-worshipping Freemasons messed up William Penn's (loon-imagined) plan.Frederick Clarkson / Salon:
“Unfriending” America: The Christian right is coming for the enemies of God — like you and me — Rising far-right Christian movement linked to GOP calls for “kingdom revolution” led by an “army of believers” — “You've got a friend in Pennsylvania!” was the theme of the state's ad campaign to promote tourism in the 1980s.
"Other gods". Oooh, spooky, H.P. Lovecraft. Go ahead, call us all demons while you're at it.Pierce and Sheets write that they seek to restore Penn's original, divinely inspired pre-constitutional utopian vision. But they say the holy seed was contaminated in an epochal and inexplicable twist of fate — and they know who's to blame.It's an old villain: the fraternal order of Freemasons, whose origins go back to stonemason guilds of the 13th century, and which later became a center of Enlightenment thought and leadership in the 18th century.
Pierce and Sheets view the Masonic order (a venerable target of right-wing conspiracy theory) as an occult religion, contaminating Christianity and its leaders and obstructing the advance of the Kingdom of God:
We see the contamination of the seed with the leaders of the Masonic order — such as Pennsylvania's own Benjamin Franklin. As a result, the holy seed of the gospel began to be mixed with the esoteric philosophies of Freemasonry. Today the lodge itself lists many Blue Lodges in the State. The result is that thousands, some serving in leadership in the church, have made pacts with other gods.
And in conclusion,
Not precisely that, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.Did Sinclair Lewis say, "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"?
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