EdHieron said:
As a matter of fact we have already have a movement similar to fascism in the US and it is Fundamentalist Christianity because it causes and supports discrimination against gays and other minority religious groups (wanting to change them to prevent them from going to an imaginary Hell is a sign of discrimination as it shows that the Fundamentalist Christians have little to no respect for the ideas of others or for the way they would like to live their lives and that has no place in a country built on freedom and justice (and justice includes social justice) for all), and it prevents many of its followers from really doing anything to really improve their lives like the fast food and other poor workers that really believe its teachings and that actively work against things that would have been to their own interest ( http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47498.html and http://blog.locustfork.net/2011/06/why-do-working-class-people-vote-against-their-economic-interests/ ) like a tax plan that taxes all of those making $250,000 a year 10% more so that the lower classes can have better services than they're able to afford on their own simply because they believe the end of the world is nigh and that Jesus is going to come back soon to alleviate all of their ills which is what the slave system that Christianity is has already done many times throughout history, and it does create a ready made system for keeping the poor working class in line (like it has done since the days of Ancient Egypt http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread678908/pg1) especially if the public education system is ever thrown out by the Right Wing idealogues that want to attack it ( http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/179079-republican-war-science-education-progress-general-working.html ). So, yes, we do have a fascist movement in this country already. Fundamentalist Christianity (it's just as fascistic today as it was when it caused nearly 100 people in Salem Massachusetts to lose their lives in 1692 and during the Middle Ages when it resulted in the deaths of 100,000 people in Europe from a wide variety of different backgrounds including other Christians that believed a bit differently from the mainstream Christians of that time, and that was largely emulated by Hitler during his exterminations of Jews in World War II http://www.affirmation.org/proclamation_on_the_family/hidden_nazi_mentality.shtml ), and it is waiting for Conservatism in this country to gain more power so that it can gain more control over those that believe differently ( http://www.onenewsnow.com/Journal/editorial.aspx?id=1281490 ) , and probably as always much to those individuals that choose to do so's detriment (already thanks largely to the influence of Christians, gays aren't free to get married like any other citizen in the US ( http://www.fatalistic.net/kouri/discrim.html ) and being an abortion clinic doctor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence ) or belonging to Islam, another miniority religious group, or going with the fact that there is no evidence for God's existence at all and being an Atheist instead ( http://www.opposingviews.com/i/sick-of-hearing-christians-claim-religious-discrimination ) makes one a target for the wrath of Fundamentalists . As Sinclair Lewis said , “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. " Which is a pretty good summation of the three headed beast composed of the Tea Party, Social Conservatism, and Fundamentalist Christianity as they are in America today (http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/634767/the_rise_of_the_teavangelicals..._it_wasn't_as_sudden_as_you_think/ ), And as Bill Maher says even if you're right that more people might think my ideas are the bs ones and that the Christian ones are the right ones (even though there's no evidence at all to suggest that they are correct), that doesn't make my views wrong ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jdtLTIzZWo ) . |
sorry, i (as well as most of america) dont subscribe to socialist doctrines.
as much as you like saying Christianity, is Fascist, it doesnt make it true, especially with lack of evidence. heresyou arguement, fascism is going to come from the tea party, because they are Christians, and Christians are Fascists, so therefore they are fascists.
thats great reasoning, but you might want to have facts to back it up, and im still waiting for an example of a small government becoming a fascist dictatorship