Ken Ham and Virgil Walker both wrote
insightful pieces about the vital importance of knowing what certain things are
and what certain words mean [1-2] and in this case, “fascist” or “fascism.” Far too often we hear the word “fascist” or
“Nazi” being hurled at certain political factions by those who know almost
nothing about what “fascism” or “Nazism” and as both men point out, this is
turning into a very dangerous situation for those who express opinions,
thoughts, and certain philosophical, political, and religious beliefs that
others may not only be at odds with but find reprehensible and abhorrent, even
if those expressed thoughts, opinions, and belief systems, with which those
crying “fascist” or “Nazi” may be at odds, are not calling for violence against
anyone, or for any group of people to be treated any differently than another,
or for anyone’s thoughts and opinions to be censored and silenced.
Granted that most everyone would agree
that fascism and Nazism are evil systems but not everyone knows and understands
what these philosophical and political systems really are and as a consequence,
whenever disagreements over points of view and perspective arise, “fascist” and
“Nazi” are often hurled as insults and often times, at those who have done
nothing deserving of the title.
We have even frequently heard President
Trump being called “Hitler” by those who may know the name and know that he was
an evil man and tyrant, but they do not know what it was that he actually
believed in and in a twist of irony, most of those who are screaming “fascist”,
“Nazi”, and “Hitler”, are carrying out the fascist and Nazi legacy and
supporting many of the policies associated with fascism and Nazism and what
Nazis and fascists believe in.
And the people who are called Nazis and
fascists the most are not those who are racist, hold authoritarian views, or
desire to eliminate certain segments of the population from society, but those
who are Bible-believing Christians and MAGA-aligned conservatives; both of
which oppose the tenets of fascism and Nazism.
In hopes of helping any potential readers
out there to understand, I want to give you a comparative contrast between the
Christian and MAGA platforms and creeds and that of the Nazi/fascist platforms:
The Christian and MAGA platforms:
1.
Christians believe in one God who created the universe and all that is
in them (Gen. 1-2), who is the source of all truth (Jn. 14:6), who is the sole
decider and determiner of what is right and wrong, good and evil, truth and
falsehood, who is actively involved in the affairs of all men, and before whom
all men must give an account for all that has been said and done in this
present life, and who will to each person give out the final sentence and
reward.
They also believe that mankind is
inherently corrupt, that this corruption causes us to fall short of God’s
standard of moral perfection (Rom. 3:23) and due to that, we are all in need of
redemption, not by our own efforts, but through the unblemished goodness of
Jesus Christ our Lord who came to us as God in the flesh (Jn. 1:14) to take
away the sins of the world which He did by His death on the cross on which He
was crucified and after having purchased our redemption by the shedding of His
blood, He was raised again from the dead for our justification (Rom. 4:25) so
that anyone calling upon Him for the forgiveness of sins will be saved. (Rom.
10:9, 13)
They believe that true transformation
begins not from without but from within (2 Cor. 5:17) upon accepting Jesus
Christ as Savior of one’s soul and Lord over one’s life.
They, as a whole, believe in the imminent
return of Christ Jesus (Rev. 20-22) not placing their faith and hope in the
things of this present world but in the new and better world to come. That doesn’t mean that they don’t want to
better themselves or do what they can to better the world around them, but they
believe that due to the increase of evil and wickedness in the world, that this
present world will eventually be done away with and replaced with a new and better
world (Rev. 21-22)
Many MAGA adherents also profess to follow
Christ Jesus, but the MAGA movement does contain within itself a diversity of
theological thought as there are also within the movement practitioners of
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, some who hold to some tenets New Age
thought, some who profess to follow Islam, and some who have no belief in God
or higher power at all. Even amongst
professors of the Christian faith within the MAGA movement, there is also a
diversity of theological thought as there is within the movement Catholics,
Protestants and evangelicals, and even Mormons but irrespective of the
theological differences, most will admit to a belief in and reverence for God
or a higher power to whom we will one day have to give an account.
They also believe that our rights and
freedoms come from God and not man and either encourage a theistic faith-based
influence in the public square or at the very least are not opposed to it.
2.
Christians and MAGA believe in the free exercise of religion, the
unfettered freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and
opinions and are foundational to a functioning democratic republic. What makes Christianity compatible with the
MAGA platform is that Christianity is a faith that is diplomatic in nature and
was never meant to be spread by use of force as Christians believe that in
order to win souls, minds and hearts must first be won over.
They also both believe in the freedom of
association and that every faction, organization, and entity has a God-given
right to preserve its integrity, identity, and to operate according to its
respective faith, doctrine, and values and this includes women’s organizations
and athletics
MAGA and Christians both believe that
differences are best sorted out through diplomacy and dialogue instead of
coercion, censorship, and use of force.
3.
Both Christians and MAGA believe that all people were created equal no
matter their gender, skin-color, ethnicity, lineage, nationality, economic and
social status, age, or occupation
4.
Christians and many within the MAGA movement honor and respect the
family structure and unit as designed by God.
5. Many
Christians and most within the MAGA movement will both profess to believe in
the sanctity of innocent unborn life, but there remains disagreement as to what
extent but they certainly oppose doing away with human life when the preservation
of life is no longer convenient.
6.
Christians and MAGA believe that justice needs to be carried out swiftly
and effectively against all wrongdoing and criminal activity and that no
excuses should be made for evil acts.
7.
Both Christians and MAGA believe that if those who are able to work
don’t work, they shouldn’t eat (2 Thess. 3:10) but that doesn’t mean that they
don’t believe in helping others in distress and need. They also believe that people should be able
to enjoy the fruits and rewards of their labors and not be excessively taxed
out of them.
8.
Both Christians and MAGA desire to see the poor rise out of poverty and
for the work of their hands to prosper and not fail which is why the MAGA
platform is against high taxation and excessive regulation.
9.
Christians and MAGA both believe that parents should be the ones
deciding as to how their children are educated and what they should be taught
and oppose centralized control of education but would rather see educational
and academic control become decentralized.
10.
Christians and MAGA value preserving the innocence of children which is why
both are opposed to children being exposed and indoctrinated with perverse and
depraved ideologies.
11.
Christians and MAGA believe in the preservation of women’s safety and
privacy in spaces designated for them such as restrooms, shower rooms, and
locker rooms.
12.
Many Christians and MAGA do not believe that a nation should be denied
access to its own respective resources but should be as self-sufficient as
possible, depending as little on foreign resources as possible. They also believe that the preservation of national
sovereignty is vital for the survival and liberty of any nation.
13. Many Christians and MAGA believe in the right
to the defense of self, property, loved ones, and their fellowpersons against any
and all threats and that law-abiding citizens should not be prosecuted or
condemned for defending themselves and all that they hold dear from any who
would seek to do them harm nor for coming to the aid of those under threat.
14. Many Christians and MAGA believe in a strong
national defense and security which includes secure borders and the deportation
of illegal aliens and especially those illegals who seek nothing more but to
steal, kill, and destroy
15.
Both Christians and MAGA believe in liberty and value economic,
political, and social liberty, but Christians believe that liberty begins not
from without but with the liberty of the mind, heart, and soul; a liberty that begins
from within.
16.
Both Christians and MAGA believe in principled but limited government
subject to accountability
17.
That all people should be subjected to the same standards.
As I consider the MAGA platform, it is
interesting to note how much the MAGA platform and creed have in common with
biblical teaching but it is not my intent to go into an in-depth comparison on
this blogpost but both Christian doctrine and the MAGA platform stand in stark
contrast to the tenets and platform of Nazism and fascism.
The tenets of Nazism and fascism are as
follows:
1.
Godlessness and either the elimination of all theistic religion or
restricting the practices thereof.
2. Rights
and freedoms come from man and not God.
3. Demands
conformity in thought and in the suppression of dissenting thought or opinion
by any and all means necessary.
4. Disarmament
of the population
5.
Unlimited government control over political, economic, educational, and
social activities
6. Not
all people are created equal but that some classes of people are superior to
others
7. That
human life can be disposed of if deemed inconvenient
8.
That government, not God, decides what is right and wrong and what is
truth and what is a lie
9.
That not all people should be subject to the same standards but that
different classes of people should be subjected to different standards
And as film producer Cecil B. DeMille once
asked, “Are we properties of the state? Or are we free souls under God?” [3]
That same choice has remained before us
since the beginning of history itself but not only that, it is also a choice
between:
Life or death
Good or evil
Light or darkness
Truth or falsehood
Wisdom or foolishness
Holiness or sinfulness
Purity or corruption
Righteousness or unrighteousness
Order or chaos
Liberty or oppression
Angels or demons
God or Satan
Heaven or Hell
Salvation or damnation
And if we are unwilling to submit
ourselves to one side of that age-long warfare, we will inevitably be
subjugated to the other and that warfare that is also a warfare for the hearts,
minds, and souls of men began not on the earth, but before the creation of the
world in the Kingdom of Heaven where a certain angel named Lucifer who had once
served at the throne of God as a covering cherub until he became so lifted up
in his own pride that he thought he could be equal with God forgetting that he
was but a creation of God and as a consequence, he and all who had sided with
him were cast from their places in Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) which
then began that age-long war between God and Satan.
Afterwards, God created our universe and
all that is in it and when He had created it, He had created it to be a world without
death, evil, pain, suffering, or hardship, but a world filled only with light,
life, peace, happiness, goodness, and joy complete with a perfect harmony
between God, man, and nature itself and it was after the creation of the heavens
and the earth that Satan found opportunity to accomplish on the earth what he
was unable to accomplish in Heaven by and in the form of a serpent, he crept
into this newly created world and through false assurances and promises of
better things that would never be fulfilled, caused the first man Adam and the
first woman Eve, who was Adam’s wife, to do the one thing that God had forbidden
them to do and that was the eating of a fruit from a certain tree called the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil, having been warned that in the day that they
ate thereof, they would surely die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but by a lie, did Satan cause
that fateful transgression that would to this day change the nature of the
world for the worse (Gen. 3:4-5) and when Adam and Eve listened to the lie of
Satan instead of the warning of God, instead of receiving the better things
that they were promised, they received the opposite of what they had been
promised and, as warned, were subject to the sentence of death (Gen. 3:19) and
not only they themselves but the rest of mankind as well because the sin that
entered into Adm and Eve was then passed down to mankind which is the reason
why we are all inherently sinful and inwardly corrupt by nature since we are
all descended from them (Rom. 5:12) and it is this inward corruption of our
nature that causes us to sin and sin is the reason why we all die, for as it is
written, the wages of sin is death, (Rom. 6:23) which makes Satan not only a
murderer of Adam and Eve, but the murderer of every person born into this world
by way of the sin that entered into Adam and Eve through the transgression of
the eating of the forbidden fruit and was then passed down to all of their
children and descendants, which we all are, but the consequences of sin did not
stop with mankind but extended to all of creation as well, for as it is written
that the entire creation groans and travails in pain to this day (Rom. 8:19-22)
which is the reason for the death, suffering, evil, darkness, and misery which
abound and in causing Adam and Eve to commit the transgression that brought sin
and death into the world, he then was able to justify claiming lordship over
the nations and kingdoms of the world (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) thereby
diminishing the dominion that was initially given to Adam (Gen. 1:26) which is
why he is called the prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and worst of all,
the sin that entered into Adam and Eve caused a separation between them and God
and has caused us who are born into this present world to be estranged from our
Creator and with every lie that has followed the very first lie, Satan
continues to keep as many souls as he can estranged from their Creator in order
to keep them bound and captive to a spiritual darkness which will eventually
bring those who remain in spiritual bondage into an everlasting damnation
filled with a torment that never relents for it is not enough for Satan to be a
destroyer of the body or even the destroyer of creation, but he also seeks to
lead as many souls as he can into everlasting destruction.
By a lie did sin come into the world and
death with it.
By a lie did Satan usurp the dominion
given to man.
By a lie was creation itself subject to
the pain, suffering, misery, evil, and decay that resides in it.
And it was that very lie that Satan earned
the title of the father of lies (Jn. 844) and by that same lie was he made a
murderer of not only Adam and Eve but also of every person born into the world
since then and it was also by that very lie that Satan subjugate all of
creation to a slow and painful destruction and diminished the dominion that was
initially given to man which is why he is also called the thief who comes to
steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10
And beginning with lies and deceit does
Satan blind multitudes to the truth by which we are set free from spiritual
darkness and sin (Jn. 8:32) and by which we are reconciled to our Creator from
whom we had once been estranged (2 Cor. 5:18) and the truth that sets us free
is this:
That God is not willing that any should
perish in their sins and face eternal damnation, (2 Pet. 3:9) but that all
would come to repentance, and therefore has done for us what we could never do
for ourselves in that He, in His graciousness has purchased redemption on our
behalf in Christ Jesus, His only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us in the
flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was made that perfect
sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away the sins of the world and
because of His perfect goodness, He was able to offer Himself up on our behalf
to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and granting mercy and grace
through the shedding of His blood on the cross and after having died, rose
again from the dead three days later that we might be justified in Him (Rom.
4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might be saved from what
would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we will but call upon
His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the
dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in sincere repentance that
salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin thereby liberating us
from the threat of eternal damnation and with that cleansing comes a new
spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to
follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain
to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those things
that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is
good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of
this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty who
is the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6)
no longer placing our hopes in the things
of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to
come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources,
men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and
provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, recognizing that
the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are
but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the
skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision
are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt. 6:25-33)
to no longer fear what men can do to us,
but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account
for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible
institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God
who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our
lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His
Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our
lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the
glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men,
but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those
men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and
servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with
the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the
world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5)
nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice,
but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
And it is this new inward transformation
that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor. 5:18) from whom we had once been
estranged and just as our souls are cleansed from sin and our spirits
regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from the eternal tormenting
punishment that must come upon all who remain in their sins, so one day we look
forward to the liberation of our bodies from death itself when our mortal and
corruptible forms are transformed into that which is immortal and incorruptible
and from that which is imperfect to that which is perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1
Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be delivered from the curse
placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a new and better world (Rev.
21-22) and liberated from the hand of our adversary Satan, who presently claims
dominion, when he is given his final sentence and cast into an everlasting
tormenting fire prepared for him and his followers (Mt. 25:41, Rev. 20:10-15)
and in that new world which will be made, there will be no sin, no death, no
decay, nor any curse, nor any evil, or violence, suffering, misery, grief,
sorrow, mourning, pain, or hardship of any sort for all of these will pass away
with this present world. Instead, there
will only be light, life, happiness, joy, contentment, peace, and rest before
the Lord God Almighty.
If your eyes have been opened to the truth
of the Gospel message, then I urge you reader to call upon the name of the Lord
Jesus for the forgiveness of sins. It is
but a sincere prayer of repentance away:
"Lord Jesus I need you.
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know that God is not concerned with the
words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your
heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of
your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing
else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
End notes:
1.
Ken Ham, “What Exactly Is a Fascist?” Answers In Genesis, November 5,
2025
https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2025/11/05/what-exactly-is-fascist/
2.
Virgil Walker, “What Is Fascism? A History Lesson the Left Doesn’t Want
You to Remember,” Virgil Walker Substack, October 4, 2025
https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/what-is-fascism-a-history-lesson
3. “The Ten Commandments,” 3:25-3:30,
Paramount pictures, 1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbIPTSx520
Scripture references:
1.
Genesis 1-2
2. Romans
3:23
3. John
1:14
4.
Romans 4:25
5.
Romans 10:9, 13
6.
2 Corinthians 5:17
7.
Revelation 20-22
8.
Revelation 21-22
8. 2
Thessalonians 3:10
9. Isaiah
14:11-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19
10.
Genesis 3:19
11.
Romans 5:12
12.
Romans 6:23
13.
Romans 8:19-22
14.
Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
15.
Genesis 1:26
16.
John 12:31, 16:11
17.
John 8:44
18.
John 10:10
19.
John 8:32
20.
2 Corinthians 5:18
21.
John 12:31, 16:11
22. 2 Peter 3:9
23.
John 3:16
24.
John 1:14
25.
2 Corinthians 5:21
26.
Hebrews 7:26-27
27.
Matthew 6:25-33
28.
Matthew 10:28
29.
James 1:5
30.
1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
31.
Matthew 25:41, Revelation 20:10-15
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