Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway? Answer: nothing but a favorite swearword of leftists.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
Mamamia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Our dictator is pretty small potatoes compared to some of the really 
> great ones. Look at Stalin, for instance, who makes Hitler look like a 
> wuss. I guess the thing that gripes my gut is that W does what he does 
> under a false premise of "freedom and democracy". That's bullsh*t, we 
> know it and he knows it. The heresy is that we tolerate it and then have 
> the audacity to call ourselves a "christian nation". I think Hitler did 
> that too, as I recall. Didn't those Nazi soldiers have "god with us" on 
> their belt buckles?

"Gott mitt uns", but was it on their belts?  In any case, yes, in "The 
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" William Shirer pointed out, as I 
recall, that a huge component of Nazism was the idea of the Master Race 
as not only White but Christian (as opposed to Jewish, see, or Gypsy, or 
those Russians with their Eastern Orthodox oddity). There was also a 
strong undercurrent of harking back longingly to the "healthy"savagery 
of a sort of primeval paganism of the ancient central European forest.  
When German nationals tried to behave like true Christians (eg Dietrich 
Bonhoeffer, sp.), they got thrown into the concentration camps like 
everybody else who crossed the bullies in charge.

C
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Crow