Is Fasicm and Worldliness the Basis of Abuse among Christians OR is it the other way around?

More thinking on this, I wrote this reply, after thinking more on questioning faith under fear [see two posts below] and it dawned on me, what lead to the embracing of other authoritarian groups/ideology...I am posting my reply here as well, because the fact is, the truth is, RELIGION, mainstream, in both Catholic and Protestant denominations, was the Basis in my life, along with the abuse in childhood that was yes, influenced by patriarchal religions/male centric worship, that laid the damage, the groundwork, both mentally, and spiritually, in myself, to where I was ripe, for being exploited, by not just groups but individuals, ESPECIALLY

MEN.

For this, I will hold RELIGION, accountable, not just fundamentalist, but mainstream, the so called Comps, Biblical manhood/womanhood, neo-conservative pro-capitalist materialist misogynist racist ideologies that Yes, I stand firm,

they are TOXIC, they are POISON, they are NO different that Islam, and abusive caste systems, that thrive on hierarchies, including many 'pagan' beliefs, they are ABSOLUTIST, DESPOTIC, AND TOTALITARIAN...

FASCISTS, ARE FASCISTS, and their ends, are always, the same.  But, lest we forget, Historically, RELIGION, MALE CENTRIC MISOGYNIST 'RELIGION' HAS BEEN THE FOUNDATION, FOR EVERY FORM OF SLAVERY, EVIL, FEMICIDES OUT THERE...THROUGH OUT ALL TIME,

for this reason, while I stand firm on the belief in FAITH, I do oppose RELIGION, especially when it becomes INSTITUTIONALIZED AND A MEANS OF 'SOCIAL CONTROL', under the fathers, of so called male centric patriarchy.  Be it Christiandom or Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism [yes they have their own misogynist damages, kid your self not] and many of the ancient religions, that include yes, goddess worship.  [contrary to the Myths and lies spewed today, many need to go back, do some serious reading about what was required, the sex slavery and sacrifice, brutally violent, to children and women Under those religions].

Secularism, such as humanism and applied communism are also religions, when they become dogmatic, when they become forced, when they become inflexible to considering other 'ideas' and beliefs, when SOCIAL ENGINEERS, take the place of 'god', it is a RELIGION.  That fact needs to be stated loud and clear, it often sadly, is not. 

My reply, below:

JaneDoeThreads said...I like what you said lionwoman, you know though my questioning was from a radical turn the rock over left view [far left], it didn't start Out that way, I grew up, with a family background in strict Catholicism/Shriner/masonry and Italian male-Patric centrism with also Irish, culture wise,

then grew up in an extreme racist-nationalist based religious fundie town in the South, with over 100 churches, a lot of pharisees, with secret wife swapping parties, that kind of hypocrisy, KKK mentality, materialism, the whole right wing neo-conservative, neo-Nazi type of mentality that while my family who were from the East did not abide in that culture, the assimilation still occurred because it was only way to survive and keep from being lynched, literally. So in THAT WAY I can totally relate to what so many who have grown up with the QF and other fundie lifestyles are saying, and it was the LEARNED CONSTRUCTS and internalized gender hate, growing up with that,

that actually laid the groundwork, both mentally and spiritually for me to be so accepting of other totalitarian cults or semi-cults, thinking that is, anything that was authoritarian in nature, including numerous denominations that are OBSESSED WITH SUBMISSION AND PATRIARCHY, I was ripe for, I had been trained and trained early.

That's the thing about religion though, you don't have to be directly intimate or connected to it to be influenced negatively by it's destructive forces...especially when those negative influences are Political, Economical, Social and Institutional,

and this, this is what I think is even far more dangerous for all people, especially women, and why yes, there is such a need to outwardly confront, challenge, rebuke blatant wrongs, because the Day we are Silent,

is the Day that the authoritarians take dominion and we will wind up like so many other nations, in a state of tyranny, that is disguised under a mask of goodness. This is why, I do think dissent is so necessary, and the silencing of dissent,

to me, spells out more danger than just what transpires in a few semi-cults or cult-like religions. Religion, rigid patriarchy and hierarchy, even if secluded, is yes, indeed, a threat,

to freedom to have a soul that is not controlled or destroyed by forces that mean harm, so many think the dangers lie in liberalism,

I can speak from experience, the groundwork, for tyranny, for absolutism, for the worst kind of medi-evil misogynist abuse, leading to feudalism with a gun,

lay none other, than in RELIGION.

I cannot emphasize this enough, and I really do believe, that the danger of this real threat, is too often, trivialized, in the safety of that it's not the same as faith, that is true, it isn't,

but if faith is to have the freedom to grow, it requires space to breathe. Once that space is removed by despots, dominion movements that are mixed politically, be they right or not, they Always lead up to,

totalitarianism.

The connection of, is so glaring in my life, though not directly in the religious patriarchy, indirectly, male centric patriarchy, not only Nearly destroyed my faith, it did unrepairable damage, to both my life and my children's...

and that, I will Never, forget. which is why, I will stand opposed to religion. It is toxic, it is poison, make No mistake about it...it paves the way, to absolutist fascism, NOT the other way, around.

Jane