this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The recently deceased(April 2023) national director of the knights of the Klu klux Klan was a Christian pastor by the name of Thomas Robb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

religion; not even once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks like a failed Loss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had to go back and see context to remember what this was in response to. Then I snorted pretty hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Christo-Fascism" is redundant. You can just say Fascism, it's still the original flavor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all Christians are fascists, and not all fascists are Christians; while there is a pretty significant overlap between these groups, we have to remember that fascist atheists exist, fascists who belong to other religions exist, and anti-fascist Christians also exist (even though Christianity itself is an incubator for fascism).

I know this because I was raised in an atheist fascist household.

So Christo-Fascism is not redundant, it is just a common flavour that often comes together. To claim it is redundant is to claim that Christianity and Fascism are interchangeable—they are not, and it can lead us to be blindsided when non-christian fascists appear.

Fascism always appears in different flavours; otherwise recognising fascism would have been so easy that fascism wouldn't have been able to gain traction. Think of it like a pathogen, when we (the population) start developing an immunity to a certain variant, another variant gains which outperforms the older variant. Also, once enough time passes, older variants sometimes surface back, as the memory of the immune system fades away and we become more vulnerable to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huh? I did not claim they were interchangeable. I made no statement at all about Christianity itself. My claim is that Fascism has appropriated religious infrastructure and iconography as vectors to spread and establish itself from it's inception.