> literal, unashamed Nazi

He's a Christian Zionist which is the belief in the fulfilment of old testament biblical prophecy. This seems diametrically opposed to Nazism to me, ideologically. I don't know how you'd square the two.

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actionfromafar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One of them wants an eschatological, world cleansing war. The other wants to usher in an eschatological, world cleansing war.

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krona 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Nazism is as eschatological as Marxism (class vs racial struggle) and many other secular/religious ideologies with utopian endpoints.

Depending on your point of view there's no difference (because the end justifies any means), but I think the True Believers of these ideologies would beg to differ.

	▲	pixl97 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Having grown up in some rather terrible places and having the displeasure of close proximity of American Nazi types I'd have to say that in the US there are very few German style true believer Nazi's. The modern ones have a mixed system of odd Christian and Nazi views mixed together, with a strong emphasis on racism/racial purity/and gods chosen people. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/christia... >Christian Identity (CID) is an antisemitic, racist theology that gained a foothold during the Civil Rights Era and reached a prominent position within the racist right by the 1980s. “Christian” in name only, CID doctrine claims that white people, not Jewish individuals, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible. The movement has maintained a contentious relationship with evangelicals and fundamentalists, who believe that the return of Jewish people to Israel is essential for fulfilling end-time prophecy. >>While the CID movement may be small, its rhetoric has seeped into more mainstream Christian nationalist ideologies, such as Dominionism. Actual CID churches are few and far between themselves their ideas are very common in online forums and quickly adopt memes and theories that mirror their views. 'Replacement theory' is one of these that's common in more mainstream America.

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zelphirkalt 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Zionists are not that far off though. For many Zionists parallels include: Like to be militarist and maximalists in their opinion about what land should belong to them. Applaude and show no shame for committing genocide. Employing starvation as a means of war/conflict. Showing no regard for civilian lives.

How the rest of the Zionists, who when prompted about such matters may not subscribe to these believes, who might exist, square their ideology with with what has been going on in reality, I have no idea.

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ShinyLeftPad 2 hours ago | parent [-]

zionism as belief that a group of people has a right for self determination != zionism as war justification. I recall there are different flavors and lumping them together is not helping anything.

	▲	zelphirkalt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I wish you would have either read more carefully, or at least not make it seem as if I stated things, that I didn't. As it stands, your comment basically just makes me shrugg. Thanks for telling me that they are a belief group? Thanks for telling me basically any religious nuts group has various flavors?

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pixl97 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Christian nationalists, Identity Christianity, and Nazi's are strange bedfellows. They all want chaos to occur so they can take power. Also don't expect any rational ideology out of the groups. The Christian ones commonly have beliefs that the jews killed Jesus so they are bad (or at least very complicated), and also war Jesus is coming to smite his enemies (who seems to be everyone except the Nat-C's). Actual Nazi's have quite a lot of overlapping beliefs, e.g. racism, ideas about racial purity, not actually like the jews, or really anyone that is different from them.

I was raised in proximity to a lot of people like this and got to hear all their spiels growing up, and saw a number of them end up in jail for terrorism plots.