Clerical Fascism

Clerical Fascism, clipped to Clerfash, is a totalitarian, culturally far-right and economically Centre to mid-right ideology. Clerfash is a child of Fascism and  Christian Theocracy and believes that a fascistic political system should be explicitly religious and serve the interests of the church as well as of the nation. Many see Clerfash as an evil ideology based simply on his identity politics, however he is tolerated by other Christian ideologies such as Christian Democracy.

Personality
Clerical Fascism is usually portrayed as an extreme Italian Catholic that usually really dislikes other religions. He absolutely hates all forms of degeneracy (as according to the Bible), and usually takes a hard-line view of race and nationality, not unlike National Socialism. He is usually very haughty, but he is extremely orderly and his loyalty will never wear out.

History
The term Clerical Fascism originated in the early 1920s in Italy, referring to the faction of the Church that supported Benito Mussolini. It has few examples of successful regimes, however there have been multiple attempts at creating a Clerical Fascist state.

The Iron Guard
Perhaps the most famous example, the Iron Guard was a Romanian Fascist political party created in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Originally called the Legion of the Archangel Michael, the political party was officially dissolved multiple times before coming into power on the 14 of September, 1940 after the assassination of Cordreanu. It only stayed in power for 5 months before being betrayed by the Prime minister, Ion Antonescu, and was banned on the 23rd of January, 1941. More info

FET y de las JONS
Another famous example, the National Syndicalist party that formed in 1937 from the merger between the Carlist party and the  Falange Española de las JONS. After the Spanish Civil War, they were combined with several other Nationalist parties, however there was a great amount of tension between the Falangists and the Carlists which ended up manifesting itself in violence with the Begona Incident.

By the middle of World War two, the party began to stress the unique "Spanish Catholic authoritarianism" of the Falange, as well as switching gears from being a political party to being a movement. The movement slowly died out until 1965, when the SEU (the student organization of the movement) was dissolved. More info

National Synarchist Union
The UNS was a Mexican Clerical Fascist party founded in May of 1937 by Jose Antonio Urquiza. During the second world war, the government attempted to "tame" them, and when this failed they decided they must be controlled. All UNS meetings were banned, at the same time the party was fracturing. The party eventually split in two when the leader was replaced. The deposed leader started his own party, and both claimed they were the true UNS. Ultimately, they were outmaneuvered by the government, who openly supported both Catholicism and worker's rights, which basically occupied the political space that would normally be associated with critics from both the right and the left, thus taking all of the political power away from them. They were never disbanded however, and exist even to this day, with two political factions. More info

The Lapua Movement and IKL
The Finnish Lapua movement was founded in 1929 as a self described anti-communist people's movement. It was fanatically Lutheran, Finnish nationalist and also anti-Russian. It's leader was a farmer named Vihtori Kosola and it's support came largely from the Ostrobothnian region, especially the small town of Lapua where it was founded.

It started to gain public attention when they attacked a group of young communists having a meeting at the Lapua labour house where they according to the Lapua movement were committing blasphemy and mocking the fatherland. The Lapua Movement considered this absolutely outrageous and several Lapua movement supporters charged right in led by Vihtori Kosola himslef and started tearing the red shirts off the communist youths. This resulted in a massive brawl and the outnumbered Lapua movement men beat up several communists, and the rest fled while the Lapua movement closed the workers house believing it was a communist traitor stronghold.

After this incident The Lapua Movement continued beating up leftists, burning labour houses and sabotaging leftist newspaper presses. They were known for their infamous practice of "muilutus" where they transported suspected communists by force with with cars illegally behind the Soviet border and beat them up. These practices were widespread and the right-wing parties in charge considered this a necessary evil and didn't do anything to stop it, for a long time.

In 1930 they organized the Peasant's march in Helsinki where 12 000 Lapua Movement supporters marched through the streets calling for a ban on communism. It was succesfull and the Finnish parliament passed the communist laws outlawing communist activity.

However this wasn't enough for the movement and many of it's members started harassing and beating up moderate social democrats and openly admiring fascism. For even the right-wing government this was too radical, so the frustrated Lapua Movement supporters started the Mäntsälä rebellion in 1932. 5000-7000 men attempted to start violent revolution from the small town of Mäntsälä. The rebellion was prevented by the notoriously right-wing president Pehr Evind Svinhufvud by peacefully disarming the group with a radio speech. The movement was quickly disarmed and banned after this.

The Lapua movemebt was followed by an openly clerical fascist political party called the Patriotic People's Movement. (Isänmaallinen kansanliike in Finnish, which IKL is short for.) They were ideologically very radical but non-violent. They had 14 members in the parliament at it's peak. They were banned in 1945 by the Soviet union as a dangerous facist organisation.

How to Draw
Clerfash_flag.svg Clerfash is shown as being Fascism ball with a Red-Gold Colour Scheme and a cross on top of the Fasces.


 * 1) Draw a Ball
 * 2) Draw a couple Red Lines
 * 3) Out of the middle-top and middle-bottom of the bundle of sticks you've drawn draw a small red line each
 * 4) On the Top line draw a red line going through to form a cross.
 * 5) Right of the Red lines, draw an Axes coming out of them
 * 6) Through the Bundle of sticks draw Gold lines form in a "Z" pattern.
 * 7) Add the eyes and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Monarch.png]] Monarchism - I pledge my loyalty to the King.
 * [[File:Ecofash.png]] Eco-Fascism - Taking care of the earth God gave us, and accepting of a hierarchical state! What more do I have to say. Just... change your views about race please.
 * [[File:Trad.png]] Traditionalism - We must hold to the values that God gave us.
 * [[File:Reactsoc.png]] Reactionary Socialism - My more extreme counterpart (much more culturally right and economically left)
 * [[File:Monarcho-Fascism.png]] Monarcho-Fascism - My favourite sibling. You are even better than [[File:Monarch.png]] Monarchism.

Mixed

 * [[File:Esofash.png]] Esoteric Fascism - Are you some kind of neopagan or something like that??? Still a fascist though.
 * [[File:Cdem.png]] Christian Democracy - Christian, based. Democracy, Cringe.
 * [[File:Zio.png]]Zionism - Israel is the Promised Land of God, and so must it be, but you are against God by having racially supremacist state. Still you are a movement that reclaims the Promised Land, your today policies must be despised by all Christians, but may God banish ungodliness from the land of Israel, and it will be saved.
 * [[File:Muslim 2.png]] Islamic Theocracy - May you return the Promised Land to Israel! Although my faith doesn't allow for hate and will still respect you. But you must give all of the land of the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised because of you.
 * [[File:Kahan.png]] Kahanism - Me, but a Christ-killer.
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Neo-Ottomanism - Me, but too democratic and Muslim.
 * [[File:Nazi.png]]National Socialism - You're a lot more heathen than I'd like, plus you killed a Christian here or there, but we do have an unspoken working relationship that we both want to deny.

Looks Down Upon

 * All the filthy degenerates, may they rot in hell.

Literature

 * For My Legionaries
 * Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe (Preview)

Wikipedia

 * Clerical Fascism
 * Christian Fascism
 * Austro-fascism
 * Islamic Fascism

Online Communities

 * r/ClericalFascism