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Christian Identity

Christian Identity is a religious doctrine that is a major factor within the ultra right movement in the United States. It is recognized that many of the ideas espoused by Identity are offensive, but a complete discussion is needed to understand the motivation of the movement. The Christian Identity movement is a religious movement derived from the premise that the white race is the offspring of the lost tribes of Israel and that whites, not Jews, are God's chosen people. The "seedline doctrine," which is taught by Pastor Dan Gayman, a former high school principal, and other preachers of the Christian Identity movement, argues that the Jews are the literal children of Satan.

According to Joe Roy, a chief investigator for the SPLC, there are probably 600,000 to 700,000 adherents to the Christian Identity movement throughout the United States (Eigelbach, 2005, A8). Groups affiliated with the Christian Identity movement are racist and anti-Semitic, espousing the beliefs that Jews are biologically descended from Satan and non-whites are soulless "mud people." In recent years, doctrinal disputes, the lack of a central church structure, and a shift among white supremacists towards agnosticism and racist variations of neo-Paganism have weakened the Identity movement and reduced the number of its adherents.

The proponents of Identity often quote and provide, explanations for Biblical passages; however, these these interpretations lanations have racist slant and differ significantly from more mainstream religions and religious organizations. The advocates of Identity often cite the Bible to their antiblack and anti-Semitic beliefs. The Jews, according to these beliefs, are the enemies of God and natural adversaries of the White race, the chosen race of God; blacks and other non-whites regarded as unequal to whites.

Its racism aside, the views of Identity often prallel traditional Biblical echolarship. Identity is akin to fundamentalism, in a religious connotation, that proponents of each study the Bible extensively and use it as a literal and infallible docuent for their beliefs. Identity is far more reactionary than fundamentalism. There are no ties between the two,
despite some similaritiess. There are, indeed, significant differences. Foremost of these is racism.

Most white racist groups subscribe to the Christian Identity philosophy to help make sense of the world. This religion was put forth by Edward Hines in an 1871 book called Identification of the British Nation With Lost Israel.

It goes like this: Adam was the father of Abel; Eve slept with Satan, who fathered Cain. Cain, the first Jew, killed Abel and fled the Garden of Eden. Adam had more children and Yahweh chose one of them, Abraham, to receive the covenant and found the non­ Jewish Nation of Israel. Abraham's grandson Jacob took two wives and two concubines and fathered 12 sons, the leaders of the 12 tribes of Israel.

In 721 BC the Assyrian leader Sennacheri took the 10 northern tribes captive and they disappeared from biblical stories. Hines contends that these tribes became the settlers in Europe. One tribe eventually crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower where God gave them a new covenant: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. Meanwhile, in 586 BC Nebuchadnezzar seized the southern tribe of Judah and took them to Babylonia, where Cain fled after killing Abel. It was there he mated with wild animals and created nonwhite races known as "mud people". Nebuchadnezzar converted the tribe of Judah to Satanism, and thus formed the "Jewry" ­ the people who killed Christ, gave birth to communism, and took over the Federal Reserve bank in the United States.

From this perspective, white Anglo­Saxons are the true Jews ­ God's chosen people. As Satan and his children, the imposter Jews and their children, the mud people, gain power, the world approaches its end. Good Christians must be prepared for both the Apocalypse and to help bring the Apocalypse on through their battles against Satan's secular representatives of the Zionist Occupational Government (ZOG) that runs the United States.