The Antichristian Phenomenon

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I’ve always found [tag]fascism[/tag] to be something inherently flawed. It comes out from the idea that ones own race, nation or whatever other group you might think of, is somehow superior to everything else. The whole point of it was that the “fascio” (which is Italian for union) is stronger than than the single unit. So by coordinating together, the members of a specific group became stronger than the divided people around them. Unfortunately, as is doomed to happen with such endeavors, when these groups manage to come to power, their members get corrupted. Not only that but all examples of ideals that fascist leagues have stood for, have been ones that reasonable people have found flawed. Nationalism especially takes the cake for being so completely unfounded on any other idea than the supposed superiority of ones nation.

Now, if the ideals behind Fascism are flawed, how did it manage to come into power? Where was the resistance from the outraged people?
Certainly there were powers that wanted Fascism to come into power. Powers that wanted a strong opposer to the newly fledged Communist block and these are the ones that orchestrated the situations that allowed the breeding ground for these systems to exist. However, Mussolini and Hitler did not come into power through a military coup, as in a normal Junta. Rather they got the people behind them; Mussolini his fascist groups that threatened civil war unless the government caved in and Hitler got elected normally.

It is absolutely amazing to me that a majority free and critical thinkers would allow monsters such as these to take over… And this is exactly what did not happen. These free thinkers were too few.

Fascism and Nazism managed to come into power because their citizens were already conditioned to accept a higher ruler. Someone who would gladly make all the hard decisions for them. Someone who would look after them and take them into the promise land, if they only followed his unquestionable orders. All they had to do is support their ruler. Work lawfully, don’t question the rules, support what is needed and you will live better than you ever had. You are the chosen ones after all.

What? You think that killing all the Jews is bad? But they are the money-changers of the world. If we take them out our national debt is gone. You’ll live better.
What? You think we should not be killing gypsies either? Didn’t I know what I was doing with the Jews? Didn’t you start living wonderfully after I came into power and gave my love unto you? Why do you challenge me? Well, if you insist on asking; they are dirty, filthy and a pox upon out proud race and nation. They must be eradicated before we are tainted by their obscene morals
Now you ask me about the homosexuals and the disabled? I’m starting to think that maybe you do not like the promise land after all. If you are so determined to support the ones that are inherently evil, off to the camps with you, to join them. Off to Hell!

If my deliberate examples remind you of another such totalitarian entity that rules his subjects with an iron fist, you would have gotten the point I am trying to make, not especially discreetly. If not, then let me make it clear:

The only other entity in the history of mankind that ruled with such absolute power has been the Abrahamic God. The same God of Endless Love who’s history is one of Endless Hate. Just think of the examples we have from the bible about this god.

• An angel dares to challenge him with the free will he was given and is cast down to hell for all eternity. Of course this is a children’s story but the message is clear. Do not challenge the will of the God.
• The first couple ignore his will and eat from the tree of knowledge. As a result they are cast down to living hell for not following his absolute orders. Do not seek knowledge when it is not needed.
• A town is not following the morals of the all-knowing god and it struck down, all the inhabitants killed. Do not challenge the living will of the god coming through the Prophet’s mouth.
• The world does not follow the morals set to it? Then it is to be destroyed. Do not ignore the god’s will and do not let anyone else ignore it, else everyone will perish.

The examples are truly endless but they basically amount to one thing. Subjugation to the will of the god that comes through the mouth of his chosen representatives. Knowledge is something to avoid. Stay humble so that you can inherit the earth. Do not, under any circumstances, challenge anything you are told.

If people are already taught to think like that from childhood, is it any wonder that they gladly followed these human made totalitarian systems without resistance? Does it surprise anyone that Italy and Germany had (and still have) some of the most Catholic-pious people? Is it strange that enlightened England and rebellious US (what with their majority of Protestants) along with the ever reactive little Greece, never thought of joining the Axis? Japan gladly did however. After all their leader was a living God right? Right.

This is the result of being brainwashed by a religion that needs you to be “meek” - that is, dumb and obedient - so that you might inherit the world. It is no coincidence that in the places where totalitarian regimes are still active, the people are ignorant and commonly very religious, for there is no better way to keep them obedient than to have them agonize to get into heaven. If that isn’t enough just throw some sports in the mix.

So now you understand why all fascist regimes had religion as one of their core values (along with nation and family). Why reinvent the wheel when you can just let religion train people for you. No extra propaganda costs needed. Add to that the fact that religious people seem to accept the worst dregs of humanity, as long as they claim that the same deity exists, and this becomes a killer combo.

“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.. we need believing people.”

—Adolph Hitler’s speech,
April 26, 1933

Of course they need “believing people”. How else is the oligarchy going to stand on their backs, unless they are conditioned to “believe” without questioning?
People like to think that you change as you grow up, but habits like this will always mar your perception subconsiously. Like any normal muscle, if Critical Thinking is not nurtured from a young age then it will atrophy and die, without a hope of recovery, damning the subject to a life of unhappy obedience as he flutters from false hope to false hope while “believing” each of them in turn will better his life. If one of those hopes happens to be an extreme right political party, well…you know how it goes…

Then you see the blatant betrayal from organized religion, that glady supported a regime that was going to lead people back to their loving grace. It is no secret that the Catholic church backed Mussolini, even to the point of making children’s songs about him. Why would they do that? But of course because, like many dictators who wanted to concentrate power in their hands, he forced people to be christians. This has been repeated time after time after fucking time in the last two millenia that it’s not even surprising anymore. The Romans enforced it (Genociding the rebelious ethnic Greeks in the process), the medieval feudal lords & kings enforced it, the conquering Ottomans enforced it (who actually did not care if you were Muslim or Christian as long as you believed) while the Clergy pissed themselves from joy.

Like the fictional One Ring that gave the heroes amazing power and failed them as soon as their end was approaching, so does the Church, in its mind-boggling hypocrisy, look to distance itself from the failing powers. As soon as defeat was inenvitable the priests became the greatest (spiritual) “rebels” and sought to take credit for themselves for all the “spiritual support” they granted in times of trouble.

This all goes back to the roots of this whole farce; when the Jews were ruled by their absolute theocracy. As a result of this, their nation became one of the most worthless in the ancient world, fast left behind by everyone else. With only their religious texts as wisdom and not a drop of “evil” philosophy, their people were absolutely obedient to the clergy and absolutely hopeless as far as culture was concerned. It’s no wonder that the Romans thought they were they most pathetic race they conquered.
It was only when the Roman Kings were convinced by Paul/Saul of the power this religion granted that the whole religion was revived in it’s second incarnation - Christianity, forced down the throats of everyone in the empire andsubsequently plunged the whole western world this time, into the same dark age that plagued the people of Israel so many aeons before.

Nowadays, we just see history repeat itself. As all the Muslim nations descend into Theocracy, so does their social structure become more and more friendly/similar to fascism. Their rulers lead with one hand on the gun and the other in the Quran, passing morality laws to “protect” their people. Of course, the only real goal is to stop people from seeing what other options there are. “God forbid” that someone might discover Free Thought and start to challenge.

And there is where all of us must strike.

The Iraq war has displayed just how much military might fails us when the people are conditioned in a specific way.
Take one leader out and - like the mythical Hydra - 2 more will sprout to take his place. Not only that, but take the invading army away (or just wait too long) and each head you’ve released will start feeding on its own flesh, the innocent civilians, in order to gain the upper hand. Same as in mythology, the Beast can only be defeated by fire, or in our case, the flames of wisdom.

Teach the people to think for themselves and then they will not blindly throw their lives away for silly causes like religion or nation. However, since we cannot do that while Abrahamic religions assault them from every turn, be it school, family or friends, teaching ignorance as a virtue, so then must we strike at the root of the problem and rip out the rotten ideas that threaten to plunge the world into the same gloom of the previous millenia.

Postscript

On my daily surfing of the atheosphere I’ve been discovering various nuggets of thought that reinforce my own as presented in this article. I will post them here as I find them for your perusal.

• On human sinfullness @ The Uncredible Hallq (Found on 03/09/07)
• Religion is Totalitarianism @ Debunking Christianity (Found on 19/10/07)

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