What is being referred to as kristo-fascism by news reporters and commentators has nothing to do with the Prince of Peace who taught that peacemakers are to be blessed and the meek would inherit the earth.
Jesus Christ told his right-hand man, Peter, to put away his sword when a crowd had come to take Jesus away.
Neither violence, nor force of any kind, had any place in Christ’s demonstration to the world of his final acts. His greatest demonstration of divinity was found in his absolutely pacifistic willingness to be judged and suffer a criminal death even though he had committed no offence worthy of such punishment.
Consider the Prince of Peace. Here was a man who taught that peacemakers are to be blessed, and that the meek would inherit the earth.
Christ’s spoken wisdom and his gentle behavior bore no resemblance to the aggressive behavior of maga-fascists and the repulsive conduct of bullies who think they can terrorize the Congress of our United States of America so they can illegally prop up their fat rich man dictator to take on the authority of Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan and Joe Biden.
Christ suffered death on a cross in order to demonstrate to the world that he could, and would, conquer death itself so that we—all of us who identify with the Prince of Peace—could, ourselves, join him in that victory over death.
And victory over murder and hate and fascist manipulation of our Congress and our Presidency.
This Jesus, this Messiah for anyone who is willing to accept him, said: “I was hungry and you fed me; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in, naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you visited me.”
And when we, puzzled, reply. . . Say what? When did we do all that? Jesus responded: “Whenever you’ve done it to the least of my people, (it is the same as if) you have done it unto me.”
Now does that sound like the response of a fascist?
This present riotous, lawless movement to occupy by force our Congress of the United States and the corridors of American power has nothing to do with the Prince of Peace.
If the trumpian fascists want a cross as their emblem, they’ll have to take the one that history assigned to them—the crooked one that hitler used, the one that our brave soldiers beat down into third reich ground 78 years ago.
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