Orthodox Christian fascism?

How would Oriental Orthodox Christian countries like Egypt or Ethiopia be affected by fascism?

Perhaps Ethiopia if instead of invading it, Musso managed to have it become a client state.
I still see it difficult though: Haile Selassie wouldn't put up with it and would have to be replaced by some other Ras. The latter would have to overcome the ethnic, linguistic and religious divisions and create a nationalist feeling.
 
Perhaps Ethiopia if instead of invading it, Musso managed to have it become a client state.
I still see it difficult though: Haile Selassie wouldn't put up with it and would have to be replaced by some other Ras. The latter would have to overcome the ethnic, linguistic and religious divisions and create a nationalist feeling.
It would probably have to be a native movement to be at least somewhat successful.
 
Its ironic that Orthodoxy and fascism never took off, but the window for fascism being a "legitimate" political ideology was fantisically short. As Putin's Russia proves, Orthodoxy and fascism fit hand-in-glove. There is even a term for it in Orthodoxy: symphonia. Orthodoxy is naturally nationalistic (though it is a condemned heresy to literally make every ethnic group a church, rather ever nation-state has a church. This is why Macedonians should be under Serbians, Ukrainians under Russians, etcetera.)

I think Orthodox Fascism's missed opportunity was with Greece. If Ataturk died in the crib of small pox or something, and the king of Greece avoided a monkey bit, after WW1 Greece could have controlled the Dardenelles and Constantinople. This probably makes them strong enough for Italy not to invade, and like Bulgaria, they could be pro-Axis but not really get involved. If you butterfly away Hitler's expansionism (i.e. France walks out of Munich agreement), Fascism in the Balkans can take off (as it was OTL).

Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Greece would all be fascistic Orthodox states. During the ATL Cold War, they would play the east and west against each other and likely remain fascistic, as without WW2 fascism does not get discredited.

Orthodoxy would be bigger than it is today and it would also be viewed as alien, sort of like Islam is in the west. I also think it would attract less western converts, as Orthodoxy is starting to make some inroads in this department today.
 
If any could answer, I’d like to know - how would Oriental Orthodox Christian fascism look like? Countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, Armenia and others contain sizable numbers of Oriental Orthodox Christians. How would this differ from any Eastern Orthodox fascist regimes in Europe?
In Armenia it is possible (though the nation state is not really advanced enough in Armenia at that point, and they are absorbed by Russia) and Ethiopia is also too backward (nor is their Orthodoxy very organized IMHO.) So, It would not really work.
 
There is also the Yugoslav National Movement.

Not to mention the Russian Fascist Organisation, the Russian Fascist Party, the All-Russian Fascist Organisation and its successor, the All-Russia Fascist Party. And those are only the historic ones - there are modern-day fascist parties in Russia.
Those are some of the closer examples we got IOTL, but the Russian Fascists tended to keep the Russian Orthodox Church at arm's length compared to the more 'conventional' reactionary monarchist White Russian diaspora. I wouldn't call then Christian Orthodox Fascists.
 
A Bishop from a different Eastern Catholic Church with a very different history, also one from a different Rite (Byzantine as opposed to West Syriac).
We are talking about Melkites. Again, Orthodox (and Melkites) are a mixed bad. The laity barely distinguishes between one another. The clergy is a different story, and it depends upon the Bishop. Generally, the more educated in the Western mode, the more "Roman" they are. There are melkites that are the opposite and reject Roman dogmas. Many eastern Bishops walked out on Vatican I and etcetera simply to not concede to its doctrines. Roman Catholicism outside of its western rite is a motley crue with a pretend unity--other than those clergy who are educated in the west, where they essentially become convinced of the epistemological paradigm that created Roman Catholicism to begin with.
 
The Maronite Church uses the Western Syriac Rite.
Which does not inherently make it Orthodox. Theologically they are Catholic, and given that we're talking about religion I'd assume that matters more than how they decorate their Churches.

Eastern Catholicism just means "Orthodox, but Pope is #1".
To an illiterate peasant in Right Bank Ukraine perhaps. But there's a reason why the Russians felt the need to conduct a lengthy persecution against the Greek Catholic Church following the partitions of the PLC, and I feel that dumbing down Eastern Catholicism to "Orthodox, but Pope is #1" is rather disrespectful to the actual histories and beliefs of the of Eastern Catholic Churches.
 
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