Archive for the ‘Catholic Fascism’ Category

Is The Republican Party Becoming Fascist? By Stephen D. Foster Jr. Image from oldamericancentury.org Republicans have been busy since they took control of the House of Representatives in 2011. Busy alienating every single group of people they can think of, except themselves. The United States is being transformed into a fascist state before our eyes [...]

Christo-Fascism without Tears: Response to Evangelical Writers who Distance the Church from the Nazi Party By Alex Constantine “The prophet seldom has any honor in his own country.” – Adolf Hitler “Today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am [...]

My Take: Catholic bishops against the common good              By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN (CNN) – The U.S. Catholic bishops who claim, increasingly incredibly, to speak on behalf of American Catholics hit a new low last week when they released a self-serving statement called “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty.” As this title intimates, the [...]

Doctrine of Religious Liberty Can Be Used to Deny the “Liberty of the Enemies of God” Rachel Tabachnick “So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, [...]

Third Reich Christianity: Nazi Germany as Implementation of a Christian Agenda How Was Nazi Germany an Example of Christian Nationalism & Power? By Austin Cline The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945, by Richard Steigmann-Gall Image Courtesy Pricegrabber.com Hitler and the Nazis are often cited as an example of the horrible crimes which atheists have committed [...]

Opus Dei: Neofascism Within the Catholic Church by OllieGarkey What we are seeing today in the fight over birth control is a revival of a very old, and very dangerous kind of Catholicism. It is not one supported or practiced by most Rank and File Catholics. It is a kind of Catholicism which has done [...]

As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat Robert Reich Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, ‘Aftershock My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his [...]

Church & State Report Says Religious Right And Catholic Bishops Dominate ‘Faithful’ Lobbying January 2012 People & Events In D.C. A report issued by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that religious advocacy groups in the nation’s capital are growing and that most of the largest organizations are affiliated with the Religious [...]

The Catholicization of the American Right Howard Schweber Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the past two decades, the American religious Right has become increasingly Catholic. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. Literally, Catholic writers have emerged as intellectual leaders of the religious right in universities, the punditocracy, the press, and the courts, promoting an [...]

Kuhner Claims Obama is ‘Our Lenin‘; Mefferd Afraid He’s More Like Stalin Crazed Catholic Fascist Jeffrey Kuhner Blathers Absurdities Against Obama Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wed, 02/22/2012 – 3:14pm Right-wing columnist Jeffrey Kuhner visited the Janet Mefferd show earlier this week to discuss a recent column he wrote for the Washington Times, positing that [...]

The following appeared in the Wall Street Journal today (h/t Ophelia Benson, Butterflies and Wheels):- Cardinal-designate speaks of joy, love – and blood Associated Press VATICAN CITY  — The top U.S. bishop, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, has told a meeting of the pope and his fellow cardinals that they must spread the faith with joy, love [...]

Fake Satanic Muslim Apocalypse Averted | Will Catholic Fascist Gert Wilders Now Save The World From The Jewish Antichrist?! Hate Peddler Geert Wilders’ Hate: No Longer Limited To Muslims Via:- Ilisha Catholic Fascist Geert Wilders Tickling His Brain? Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders is notorious for his hatred of Islam. He has compared the Qur’an to [...]

The Catholic War on Women As we near the 2012 presidential election, continued economic progress means that we are almost certain to see Republicans push wedge issues (e.g., gay marriage, abortion, and President Obama’s so-called war on religion). They had been planning to run on the economy, but if the economy appears to be moving [...]