As reported by Alex Jones (and later WND), US pastors today are being appealed to by FEMA officials to quell dissent and provide order in an anticpated (pre-planned?) time of civil unrest:
Clergy to be used to quell dissent
Program trains leaders to convince people to obey emergency orders
A government plan to use members of the clergy to quell dissent and objections to government orders during a time of national emergency has been revealed by a Shreveport, La., television station.
“Let’s cooperate and get this thing over with and then we’ll settle the differences once the crisis is over.”
A blogger for the Christian education site, Chalcedon noted that the training has been going on in secret for over a year already.
“The clergy are being advised to use Romans 13 to encourage parishioners to submit to the sudden and massive expansion of government control that takes place during martial law,” the writer said.
For more, see this article, and this, and this.
Regarding the question of whether Christians should unthinkingly support the government, esp. when it is advocating doctrines of flagitious evil, see http://h4cblog.com/is-god-a-nazi/.
Bump. Added new graphic.