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I think there's important differences between religious fanaticism, which has propped up purges and genocides, and fascism which is uses fantaticism and fanatics but which is state centered and a sort of anti-politics/rejection of beliefs and institutions.
He's a true believer who actually worked with a real god and is now shunned by it, desperately trying to prove his genocidal faith. He doesn't really believe in a state or any sort of greater order except his god, hence his lone wanderings.
Is the apocalyptic, Siege-type, sleeper cells and lone wolves style of fascism not still fascism?
If someone has a vehement disgust and intolerance for foreigners and colonized peoples and religious minorities and experimental science (animancy) and "undesirables", mixed with an ethos of the strong dominating the weak, I think that clearly refers to fascism as much as any allegory in the game.
I'd have to replay it and see if my interpretation has changed over the years.