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Fascism doesn't make this pretense.
Honestly, most people here would prefer Liberalism over High Church Christianity's pretenses -- (if they knew better, the Fascists back then who were closer to Liberalism and High Church Christianity knew the tension, Fascism sought to address both in a way).
Fascism is Modern Medicine for the Modern Mind -- it was made to counter these problems I have spoken of.
like Rousseau says, Christianity did indeed separate the idea of a City and turned it against the City itself -- it separated Church and State -- to the ultimate detriment of the State.
Christianity has always brandished these legitimate concerns of State and the being of the people as a kind of secularism and made them in fact a bastard people.

Giovanni Gentile
>Both Nationalism & Fascism place the State at the foundation–for both, the State is not a consequence, but a beginning.
>For nationalists, the State is conceived as prior to the individual.

Mussolini
>In so far as it is embodied in a State, this higher personality becomes a nation.
>It is not the nation which generates the State
>Rather is it the State which creates the nation, conferring volition and therefore real life on a people made aware of their moral unity.

Giovanni Gentile:
>For Fascism, on the other hand, the State and the individual are one, or better, perhaps, "State" & "individual" are terms that are inseparable in a necessary synthesis.

Gentile:
>Far from being the negation of liberalism and democracy (which even the leaders of Fascism have regularly repeated for polemical reasons) actually aspires to be the most perform form of liberlaism and democracy, in conformity with the doctrine of Mazzini, to whose spirit Fascism has returned.