Is fascism inherently Christian?

Is fascism inherently Christian?

This semester I’ve been teaching a graduate seminar on Christianity and fascism. We’re reading texts mostly from 1922-1945 (the years of “fascism proper”) that, even though written by a variety of authors who agree on little else, nonetheless hint at a broadly similar argument. The argument is that fascism is better understood not as a strictly political movement, but as a religious movement, and specifically as a Christian movement.