Christofascism - anony Posted: Nov 15th, 2017 - 11:26 am In Reply to: Then send your kids to Yale. I send my kids - to learn Math, history,
"Christofascism is a combination of Christian and fascism coined by Dorothee Sölle in 1970.Sölle, a liberation theology proponent, used the term to describe segments of the Christian church which she characterized as totalitarian and imperialistic."
Tom Faw Driver, the Paul Tillich Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, expressed concern "that the worship of God in Christ not divide Christian from Jew, man from woman, clergy from laity, white from black, or rich from poor". To him, Christianity is in constant danger of Christofascism, stating that "[w]e fear christofascism, which we see as the political direction of all attempts to place Christ at the center of social life and history" and that "[m]uch of the churches' teaching about Christ has turned into something that is dictatorial in its heart and is preparing society for an American fascism".
Christofascism "disposed or allowed Christians, to impose themselves not only upon other religions but other cultures, and political parties which do not march under the banner of the final, normative, victorious Christ" – as Knitter describes Sölle's view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofascism
Linked is a thought provoking article about Christofascism, home schooling and Mike Pence.
LINK/URL: Christofascism
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