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Well, historically, Christianity has not been associated with fascism very closely. Hitler invented his own religion based on mythology and pagan traditions to replace Christianity as the new Nazi religion. Fascism worked well in many Arab counties however during the nazi period. Communism is another style of fascism in my opinion with the state being substituted for one figurehead in many cases. It also relies on minimizing Christian beliefs or replacing them with something else.

On the other side of the coin, you have the old saying that religion is the last refuge of a scoundrel. So the way I take that, is when someone who has not been very religious in the past suddenly takes on an extremely religious stance after being caught with his pants down, thats why! Sort of like when Hillary Clinton starts talking religion.

Italy would be an example.

Well, historically, Christianity has not been associated with fascism very closely. Hitler invented his own religion based on mythology and pagan traditions to replace Christianity as the new Nazi religion. Fascism worked well in many Arab counties however during the nazi period. Communism is another style of fascism in my opinion with the state being substituted for one figurehead in many cases. It also relies on minimizing Christian beliefs or replacing them with something else.

Good synopsis. Fascism, Communism, any other ism - They all come about when the leader decides to force everyone to believe a certain way or when the people collectively begin to believe that Government is the Savior of all of their problems and the world's problems. Hence, you have Liberalism. Just another ism.

The beauty of conservative thinking is that it places responsibility on the INDIVIDUAL and therefore can never become an ism and the beauty of this country is that the Founding Fathers figured out what happened when countries became ism's so they framed the Constitution to not allow this to happen. They framed it so that we could believe whatever we want to believe and will not be forced by ANYONE to believe something. In the same way, they also made it so that you can believe what you want, but you still have to follow general rules like you shalt not kill, steal, etc.