On Oct. 27, 1999, the Post printed two headlines on top of page 8, placed side by side. The first reads, "Pat: `I'd Like All Folks to Be Christians," and the second one (smaller, almost like a subtitle to the first) reads: "Buchanan Offers U.S. Fascism With a Happy Face." To drive the point home, the second article highlights a pull-quote by Buchanan: "I believe Christianity is the true faith."
Now, we've all heard the term "fascist" cast about like a curse word. It's used as a club to silence dissent from left-wing orthodoxy on university campuses across America. But for those of us who do not want to be condemned to relive the past because we have failed to remember it, let rite ask: Is there really any such cozy relationship between fascism and Christianity?
Far from it, as Gene Edward Veith documents in his book Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview: Fascism and Christianity stand in total antithesis to one another.
Consider, for example, the following quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, whose philosophy had a profound influence on Nazi theory: "Christianity, sprung from Jewish roots and comprehensible only as a growth on this soil, represents the counter-movement to any morality of breeding, of race, of privilege: It is the anti-Aryan religion par excellence."
This antithesis is the reason the Nazis despised both Christian and Jew. Both held worldviews based on a monotheism that says the state is not autonomous, for there is a God whose law is above the law of any government, before whom even seemingly all-powerful dictators must bend the knee. Moreover, any man, woman or child who had the Ten Commandments had an adequate moral basis for judging and resisting the National Socialist state as an objective evil
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