It’s true that most fascists in America, like most people, are Christian.

However, that doesn’t change that the elements that actually make Christo-fascism bad (the fascism) also show up in lots of other areas like the occult, neo-paganism, and video game culture.

Obvious in the picture below is the pseudo-Nordic aesthetic of Arizona QAnon supporter Jake Angeli with his furs, horns, and Hammer of Thor tattoo:

Less obvious is the “Outsider’s Mark” tattoo on the left hand of the person in the yellow hoodie, neo-Nazi Jason Tankersly.

Gamergate was the online preparation for much of what we’ve seen subsequently, involving many white men who didn’t consider themselves Christian but very much did agree with a patriarchal, reactionary Christian view of the world.

“Actually, it’s about ethics in heathenism!” indeed.

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From The Ringer in 2018:

Occultism gives its practitioners the feeling of having discovered a true, fixed, and unified cosmic order, which exists in secret beneath the false, unfixed, and disunified flux of everyday life. Occultism thus tends to thrive at moments of intense societal anxiety, when empires are falling, when cultures are changing in radical ways. The stories occult movements tell tend to relate directly to the external insecurities the occult movement exists to ameliorate.
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You don’t have to look hard, it turns out, to find evidence of the same old pseudo-mystic sludge beneath the culture of the modern far-right. It’s on biker sigils. It’s in Twitch avatars. It’s in 4chan memes. Its character, outside actual völkisch pagan sects, is more diffuse, more postmodern, wrapped in more layers of irony. But the same sense of latent doom is there, too. It always has been. When the white-supremacist terror group called the Silent Brotherhood, also known as The Order, was suppressed in 1984 after murdering a Jewish radio host, half its inner leadership circle identified as Odinist. Even the fact that the alt-right movement initially organized itself largely around video game chauvinism tells you something about its relationship to fantasy, its desperate need to be given a special destiny. Actually, it’s about ethics in heathenism!