This is the third part of a series of articles showing how certain un-biblical attitudes in the Church have helped to create the current political situation in America – that is, being on the verge of accepting fascism.
What is
Fascism?
Fascism is an
anti-democratic authoritarian
form of government. It often rises to power through the corporate propagation of
nationalist and racist propaganda (lies). Once in power, fascists suppress internal
opposition through state violence and mass imprisonment. (Definitions are in the blog post.)
The Plan
Republican strategists
have recently begun to openly float the idea that "democracy" (representative government
as defined in the US Constitution) can and should be canceled if the “right
people” get to stay in charge. (A conservative plan to call a constitutional convention to reinstitute legal white-supremacy has been in the works for decades.) The kind of government that they are proposing
is a form of fascism that will eliminate the basic voting rights of Blacks and
other Americans who are not aligned with the corporate right-wing nationalism
that the oligarchs are seeking to enforce. This desperate eleventh-hour effort
to prevent the loss of white rule in America proves that the right’s pretended patriotic
reverence for the US Constitution has never been anything other than rank hypocrisy.
Do the “ends
justify the means”?
One small problem for the “win-at-all-costs” republicans who consider themselves to be Christians - fascism is the very definition of anti-christian evil. It relies on hate, lies, and racist violence to gain and maintain power. Hitler came to power by stoking the resentment of Germans who could not accept that they lost WWI (1918). They wanted someone to blame, a scapegoat. The Nazi’s offered up a racial minority, the Jews. Do you recognize a pattern?
In their rise to power. the Nazis openly stated that they were only emulating America’s racial policies and though it has been purposefully forgotten, the Nazis were supported by a vast number of racist Americans. There was a mainstream Nazi movement in the US that lionized Hitler and actually supported the Nazis throughout WWII. Hitler’s satanic fascist dream of racist world domination resulted in a world war that ultimately cost the lives of 50 million people (WWII). 1 Peter 5:8-9, John 8:44 Who can say what might be the long-term outcome if modern American fascists get their way – we already have mass imprisonment, what else might they come up with? It certainly brings a number of apocalyptic (end of the world) scenarios to mind.
Ironically, although many white American political christians feel empowered to denounce their political enemies as demonic, it is they who are standing at the very precipice of hell for willfully rejecting the BIBLE’s overriding lesson – to love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 22:37–39. They are literally driving people away from CHRIST with hypocrisy and hate for the sake of achieving political dominion. Rom 2:24 So this is my point; to ask political Christians if they are willing to risk their eternal salvation to have their way in this world? JESUS rejected his disciples' desire for worldly dominion.
A news
flash from the past
Will the American
right-wing political church actually accept fascism to maintain their vision of
white supremacist American exceptionalism? News flash – it has always done so in the past. Unfortunately, many unbelievers blame
this on Christianity itself, instead of blaming the greed and racism of those
who try to justify their race pride with feigned religion.
A little history
The US
Constitution officially mandated that America become a fascist police state in Article 4. Every state government was required by Federal Law to detain, question, and arrest Blacks who had escaped from slavery and return them to their
tormentors. In other words, the entire country was a fascist police state
arrayed against innocent Black people. The Fugitive Slave Act was codified as federal
law in 1793 and again in 1850. When the law was strengthened in 1850, the refusal by some states to directly participate
in the slave system was cited as a major grievance by the confederates in their
(Civil War) articles of succession.
Historically,
many American church denominations supported chattel slavery and thus the fascist
police state that enforced slavery. They falsified the teachings
of the BIBLE to support the genocide, enslavement, and oppression of Africans and
Natives. They employed the very same authoritarian propaganda against their
victims that we now recognize as fascism: they are evil, inferior beings,
… it is us vs them, …if we don’t destroy them - they will destroy
us, etc. It was all done for the love of money and greed and pride continue to be
the motivations today. 1 Timothy 6:10
The “woke”
history that they fear:
Even though the
Fugitive Slave Act was repealed in 1864, the fascist police state arrayed
against Black people remained in effect through Jim Crow laws, lynching, jury nullification,
debt peonage, disenfranchisement, economic racism, for-profit prisons, and
police violence. (See definitions below.)
The idea
that these simple historical truths might become common knowledge is apparently
what all the mercenary anti-woke political prostitutes are pretending to fear.
Why? Is it because these truths negate any possible spiritual justification for white christian-nationalist
rule as the population numbers begin to change and white people no longer hold a numerical majority? Is it because acknowledging
the evils of American history will delegitimize the trope that America is justified
in all its imperialist actions due to some sort of white, nominally christian, exceptionalism?
Is America’s ruling class promoting culture-war simply because the propaganda of
American exceptionalism ultimately legitimizes the capitalist power of their
military industrial complex? (See definitions.)
Love your
enemy – will racists (or fascists) be in Heaven?
It is
amazing that any committed racist can actually believe they are justified in
the eyes of GOD, that is, that their actions and attitudes are acceptable to GOD when they oppose the BIBLE? An
overwhelming number of recent political disclosures prove that if you vote
republican, you are voting for racism – whether you can admit it to yourself or
not. (There is no shortage of high-profile republicans who readily admit that
they are disgusted with what the Republican Party has become.) Over and over,
we see American white people expressing vile murderous racism but when
confronted, they simply claim that they are not racists. Such people are living
in a state of political and religious delusion brought on by the hateful satanic
propaganda that they greedily consume.
People, please
remind your right-wing relatives and acquaintances (who claim to be Christians)
that JESUS likened hatred and contempt for others (racism)
to murder. Mat 5:21-26 The BIBLE tells us that no murderers are allowed in
heaven – disqualifying sinfulness is as much about ongoing attitude as it is about action.
Definitions
Authoritarian
government – (Enforcement
of) blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of
thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political
system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite
that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people. (Britannica)
Jim Crow Laws - Any state or local laws that enforced or legalized racial segregation in America. These laws lasted for almost 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until around 1968, and their main purpose was to legalize the marginalization of African Americans. (GSU)
Lynching – Extra-judicial murder; to put to
death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. Since
the Civil War, thousands of African Americans (some innocent, others purely as acts of terrorism) have been lynched by white mobs; often in demonically gruesome
ways, followed by ritual desecration of the bodies.
Jury nullification - Jury nullification is when a jury
votes to acquit a defendant despite clear evidence that the defendant violated
the law. (Blacks Law Dictionary) Jury nullification has historically been a
normal occurrence in America, especially the south. It was/is used to deny justice
to Black victims of white perpetrators. The 1992 LA Riots were the result of
jury nullification when a mostly white jury seemed to flagrantly ignore video
evidence showing the brutal and prolonged police beating of a black motorist.
Debt peonage – Defined as a condition of enforced
servitude by which the servitor (debtor) is compelled to labor against his will
in liquidation of some debt or obligation. (Justica) In the post-civil war
American south, poor Black people were often arrested on a made-up charge of “vagrancy,” ie, not having any money on them. They were fined, and then made to pay off the fine by being forced to do hard labor on a plantation farm.
It was used as an extension of slavery in conditions that were as bad or worse.
Disenfranchisement - The state of being deprived of a
right or privilege, especially the right to vote, eg, disenfranchisement of
minority voters. Disenfranchisement was used to enforce economic racism against
Black Americans after the official repeal of slavery. Lynching and other forms
of terroristic violence were used against Blacks to keep them from demanding or
exercising voting rights.
Economic
racism – The systematic
denial of opportunity in education, employment, and access to capitol that has
led to the average Black family having less than 10% of the personal wealth possessed
by the typical white American family. Substandard schools in poor areas vs well-equipped
schools in rich areas is a prime example of ongoing economic racism in America.
Exceptionalism – The idea that the United States of
America is a unique and even morally superior country for historical,
ideological, or religious reasons. (Britannica) The belief in exceptionalism is
based entirely on hypocrisy and an agreed-upon false history.
Military
industrial complex –
A reference to all the components of a nation’s military establishment,
including the private businesses involved in producing weapons and other
military equipment. President Dwight D. Eisenhower …warned that the growth of
the defense industry posed a threat to democracy. (Political Dictionary) The Military
industrial complex has granted itself direct access to taxpayer funds in the
name of national defense. (After WWII, the Department of War was rebranded as the Department of Defense.) It is actually an evil corporate business, a merchant
of death that forces the Government to buy overpriced weapons systems that it
does not need and then creates the war scenarios where the weapons are used, so
they can sell more. The only purpose is to create more profit to satiate the
insane greed of the oligarchy.
