Not really. Although there were religious fascist, the state used it to try to control the mass.
That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.
Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.
Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.
But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.
Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.
Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.
But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
There were differing views among the Nazi leaders as to the future of religion in Germany. Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann, the propagandist Alfred Rosenberg, and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for Church Affairs, advocated "Positive Christianity" a uniquely Nazi form of Christianity that rejected Christianity's Jewish origins and the Old Testament, and portrayed "true" Christianity as a fight against Jews, with Jesus depicted as an Aryan.[14]
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Nazism wanted to transform the subjective consciousness of the German people – its attitudes, values and mentalities – into a single-minded, obedient "national community". The Nazis believed that they would therefore have to replace class, religious and regional allegiances.[15] Under the Gleichschaltung (Nazification) process, Hitler attempted to create a unified Protestant Reich Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches. The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church. Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the Nazi takeover. Hitler moved quickly to eliminate political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious. Clergy, nuns, and lay leaders were targeted, with thousands of arrests over the ensuing years. The Catholic Church accused the regime of "fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church".[16] Many historians believe that the Nazis intended to eradicate traditional forms of Christianity in Germany after victory in the war.[17]
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Christianity remained the dominant religion in Germany through the Nazi period, and its influence over Germans displeased the Nazi hierarchy. Evans wrote that Hitler believed that in the long run Nazism and religion would not be able to coexist, and stressed repeatedly that it was a secular ideology, founded on modern science. According to Evans: "Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition." Germany could not tolerate the intervention of foreign influences such as the Pope, and "Priests, he said, were 'black bugs,' abortions in black cassocks.'"[89]
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Not really. Although there were religious fascist, the state used it to try to control the mass.
That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.
Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.
Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.
But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
That's exactly what is happening in Europpean country. For example Cryptofascist far right party are using the so call christian foundation of the country to estinguish Muslim and Islam.
Fascism is rooted with the hate of everything different from what it deems to be the norm and will therefore use everything, even religion and twist its usage to repress other confession.
Its important to note also that fascism is an adaptative movement. Meaning that it will grow in different form alongside different ideologies. You might wanna search the term "clerical fascism" which is something that grew with Mussolini and less with Hitler.
But in anyway. You don't have to understand the point : "religion and state interwined" as we saying that fascist are always religious. The point is that fascist will have not problem to use religion or its spreading to control the mass and oppress minorities.
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