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you what I see myself and I only guide you to the path of rectitude." (Koran,
40:29) And he threatened those magicians who rejected his pagan beliefs and
led to the true religion by following Moses, "...Have you believed in him
before I authorized you to do so?...I will cut off your alternate hands and feet
and then I will crucify every one of you." (Koran, 7:123-124)

Fascism's Retreat in the Face of Religion

The fascistic pagan culture which dominated Europe disappeared in
stages with the spread of Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, first to
Rome, and then to all of Europe. Christianity carried to European society the
basic ethical characteristics of the true religion revealed to man by the Prophet
Jesus. Europe, which had once encouraged violence, conflict and bloodshed as
sacred, and been composed of different tribes, races and city-states constantly
at war with one another, underwent an important change.
1) Racial and tribal wars disappeared: In the pagan world, all tribes
and races saw each other as enemies, and there was constant fighting between
them. Each pagan society had its own gods and totems which it invented,
waging war in their name. With the coming of Christianity, there was a single
belief, culture, and even language in Europe as a whole, thus the conflicts of
the pagan world came to an end.
2) Peace and compassion came to be considered sacred, instead of
violence: In pagan societies, inflicting bloodshed, suffering and torture was
seen as heroic, actions that appeased the imaginary "gods of war." Under
Christianity however, European societies learned that people should love each
other and exercise compassion (even for their enemies), and that the shedding
of blood was a great sin in the sight of God.
3) The perception of human beings as a species of animal
disappeared: The Spartans regarding their warriors as equivalent to "watch-
dogs" was an extension of the "animist" belief widespread in pagan societies.
Animism implied ascribing a soul to nature and animals. According to
animism, there was no difference between a human being and an animal, or
even a plant. But when religion came to predominate, this superstition
disappeared, and European societies realized that human beings possessed a
soul given to them by God, and were completely different from animals, and
could not, therefore, be subject to the same laws.
These three aspects of paganism—racism, bloodshed, and equating
human beings with animals—are also the basic characteristics of fascism. In