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and equality. Christianity, which calls people to love, compassion, self-
sacrifice, and humility, is the complete antithesis of fascism.
Christianity is originally a divine religion, incepted by the Prophet
Jesus. After Jesus, it departed from its original form with some applications
and interpretations. Nevertheless, it has managed to maintain certain aspects
of the essence of the true religion, with concepts such love, compassion,
sacrifice, and humility, as set out above.
Let us now have a brief look at pre-Christian Europe and examine the
roots of fascism.

Fascists in the Pagan World

Essentially, as a pagan culture, religion in pre-Christian Europe was
polytheistic. Europeans believed the false gods they worshipped represented
various forces or aspects of life, and most important were the gods of war,
much like those who have appeared in just about every pagan society.
This prestige the gods of war enjoyed in pagan belief was the result of
these societies' regarding violence as sacred. Pagan peoples were essentially
barbaric and lived in a state of permanent
warfare. To kill and spill blood in the name of
their nation was seen as a sacred duty. Savagery
and violence of almost every kind could find
justification in paganism. There was no ethical
foundation to forbid violence or brutality. Even
Rome, thought of as the most "civilized" state in
the pagan world, was a place where people were
made to fight to the death or torn to pieces by
wild animals. The Emperor Nero came to power
by having countless numbers of people killed,
including his own mother, wife, and stepbrother.
He had Christians devoured by wild animals in
the arena, and tortured thousands of people
simply because of their beliefs. An example of his
cruelty was his setting the city of Rome on fire, as
he played the lyre and watched the horrible scene
from a window in his palace.
Though Rome was immersed in a culture Nero: an example of a "fascist" lover of
of violence, the barbarian and pagan nations of the violence from the pagan world.