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The Rise of the Christian Fascists
The Specter of a U.S. Theocracy and Why the People Must Stop It
by Larry Everest
Revolutionary Worker #1263, December 26, 2004, posted at rwor.org
After the elections a friend of mine, with long experience following U.S. politics, said he felt like he was living in 1930s Germany—right after Hitler became chancellor but before the Nazis burned down the Reichstag and used the incident to consolidate power, crush opponents, and institute fascism. Then he said that if we don’t have courage and resist now, in a year or two—maybe sooner—it might be too late.
I agreed.
Bush’s re-election represents a major leap in the power of the extreme right-wing centered around Bush—the dominant core of which are Christian fascists—and in their determination to aggressively escalate their reactionary agenda globally and domestically.
The agenda of Bush and the Christian right is not limited to criminalizing abortion, outlawing gay marriage, forcing children to recite prayers in school, and mandating the teaching of Biblical creationist ignorance. Their ultimate goal is Christian fascist theocracy. Now, following the election, they feel emboldened—and compelled—to take their theocratic project to a whole new level.
"They want to see a religious rule in this country," RCP Chairman Bob Avakian argues, "a rule that...entirely throws out the separation of church and state—insists that this is a Christian nation, and forces a fundamentalist view of Christianity...as the official basis for law in this country and for rule in this country... If that’s not fascism, it’ll do." ("Christianity and Society—The Old Testament and the New Testament, Resistance and Revolution," Summer 2004).
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