Organized Religion Inherently Fascist?

In the NEWS today, among other inane actions, is the assertion on the American left that Christian Fundamentalists are Fascists. Examination of that claim barely stands up, though some irrelevant parrallels might be drawn. Fascism has become a buzz word for anyone who may oppose or disagree with the loony left, or even the not so loony left; but what is it?

Fascism was founded by Benito Mussolini in Italy during the early 20th century. Originally a Marxist, Mussolini became disenchanted with Soviet communism soon after the First World War. His party, the Fascists sometimes known as the Black Shirts, succeeded to power through the electoral process. This was the model Adolf Hitler would follow a decade later. The Italian Fascists were considered right wing because Mussolini disapproved of the Marxist model this corruption of language persists to this day. The Fascists take their name from a symbol of ancient Rome the fasces which is two bundles of wood faced by two wood axes.

The Fascists in Rome, Germany, and Spain were essentially socialists and demanded that the individual link his identity with that of the state. This is sometimes called "corporateism" from the root corporeal or body. This linkage eliminates capitalism which is a celebration of individualism making Fascism itself a rather weak version of Marxism. Fascists and Communists became deadly enemies not over ideology but for political power.

In Russia this power resulted in the deaths of some 30 million citizens starved as their farms and produce were seized to feed the workers in Stalins industrialization effort. In Germany this power resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews, mostly Polish, and hundreds of thousands of others. Italian Fascism became the model corporate state where everything worked except the people, its national ambitions resulted in the subjugation of Eithopia in an attempt to reestablish the Roman Empire.

Spain became the battle ground for these competing states with Russia supporting the Spanish communists (ironically known as Republicans) while Germany and Italy supported Franco their dictatorial comrade in arms. Thus came about the left vs. right paradigm.

In the US today the left are still communists cum socialists whose modern heros are Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton; all Marxists of the first water. So here come the attacks on their opponents using pejoratives without thinking. It is apparently a must that any Republican leader is a direct if not genetic descendant of Adolf Hitler: a misnomer if ever there was one. Flailing out with accusations does not make the accusation true or even worthy of consideration.

The latest shot is a book claiming to document the case against evangelical Christians as Fascists. This column has accused certain Muslims of Islamofascism and here is why. Fascism as a corporate or single body ideology demands that the individual give himself for the group and that the group or corporation is the highest manifestion of that particular ideology. In this regard all religions are fascist in nature as they are all socialistic in nature.

Shared values are not always those of violence and that is where the distinction and the differences part ways. The Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Islam assert their right to conquer those infidels that get in the way of righteousness, the Motherland, the Fatherland, or whatever symbol is needed to motivate the cannon fodder.

The American left is so morally destitute that today they cannot distingquish between Fidel and Hugo's ruinous grip on their countries from the freedoms enjoyed in the United States. It's too bad that these people have never had to fight for the freedoms they enjoy, but it is also wonderful that they had the choice.