cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12367209
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
Steve Bannon, former White House adviser, is heard in the background exclaiming, “All right! Amen!”
All Republicans are perfectly happy with the idea of having a (Christo-)fascist dictatorship in power in the U.S. . All that they care about is that the dictatorship rewards them with money and power. I know Republicans like this, people you might think were just ordinary folks, and they’re masters of telling themselves stories to justify their violence and thievery and masters at not seeing anything that might cause cognitive dissonance, to the extent that they’re capable of that at all.
You are putting words in my mouth. I was not calling religious people dumb, in fact if you look elsewhere in this very thread I said the exact opposite. I celebrate anyone whose life is made better by faith.
But ignoring the historical use of religion by fascistic groups is willful ignorance. Take a beat friend and go re-read what everyone has been telling you. You seem to be under the impression that religion itself is being attacked, but if you actually clicked any of the links I provided earlier you can instead see how indoctrination of religious symbols, phrases and scripture are used to push fascist ideology. No one is saying religion is inherently fascist.
I understand that this is a very personal issue for you, but I truly think you need to try and engage with those sources instead of simply calling everything bullshit.
I specifically said that fascists use religion, along with culture, race, sex, gender, national origin, etc. to achieve their ends
Well I agree with religion, culture, race and national origin. Gender/sex are weird inclusions, but whatever. You are absolutely correct that they leech on to identity markers.
To blame religion rather than the fascists themselves is disingenuous.
Like I said before, calm down and scroll up. No one said religion ALONE leads to fascism.
