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Okiereddust [OP]

2005-01-06 00:42 | User Profile

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Judeo-Christianity VS. Christian-Identity By Pastor Thomas Robb

In recent years there has been numerous news articles that makes mention of what we call Christian Identity. Most news story say something like this, “The Christian Identity religion is an anti-government aberration of Christianity that teaches, Negroes are beasts and Jews are the children of Satan. Christian Identity followers have often been linked to violence.” The first thing that must be understood is that there is no such things a Christian-Identity religion. There is no Christian-Identity headquarters, there is no Christian-Identity spiritual leader, there is no Christian-Identity “Bible,” there is no Christian-Identity revelation, there is no Christian-Identity prophet, there is no Christian-Identity holy place, there is no Christian-Identity membership lists, there are no Christian-Identity rituals, and there is no such thing as a Christian-Identity member. No one can fill out an application to “join” Christian-Identity. [B]Christian-Identity refers to Christian people [I]who believe that the descendants of the ancient people of Israel are today identified with the people of Europe[/I].[/B]

[B]It’s that simple![/B]

Yet, most churches teach that the Jews are the true children of Israel and say that those of us who disagree with them are not true Christians. The foundation of Christian-Identity is an historical study and not a religious one. In other words a person could be an atheist and from migration studies believe the people of Israel migrated into Europe. It would be like claiming that someone is not a Christian because his understanding of the migration of Eskimos is different than theirs.

The assumption is made simply on the knowledge that because there are a people today called “Jews,” then they must be the Israelites of the Bible. However they overlook the fact that today’s Jews are descended from the Khazars which adopted the Talmudic (now called Jewish) religion in 740 BC. Of course this is a part of history that most people do not take time to read. But just because they have never read it does not mean it is not true. Consider the words of Arthur Koestler1, . The fact that Koestler was Jewish adds additional interest to his research, which was in agreement with many others who came to the same conclusion. In his book The Thirteenth Tribe (Random House 1976), Koestler writes, “The large majority of surviving Jews in the world is of Eastern European - and thus perhaps mainly of Khazar - origin, If so, this would mean that . . . they are more closely related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes than to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” A portion of his concluding remarks state, “I have tried to show that the evidence from anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the Biblical tribe.”

Modern “Jews” are not really Jews at all but merely adopted the name upon the conversion of King Bulan of the Khazars. Because most people have never heard this they make the assumption that there is no bases for the claim. Although it is not “common knowledge” for most people it is common knowledge for historians of European history. So when Arthur Koestler wrote his book, showing that Jews, as we know them today, are not related to the ancient people of Israel, he was not uncovering some long lost forgotten truth, but was merely writing about facts well known among historians. My copy of the Jewish Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (Werblowsky, Wigoder - Holt, Rinehart, Winsten Publishers - 1965) also speaks of the great conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. So also does my copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) as well as many others. Jewish sources claim that roughly 97% of all Jews living today are Ashkenaz Jews descending from the Khazars. Robert Kirsch writing in the Los Angeles Times quotes Professor A.N. Poliak of Tel Aviv University (Israeli) claiming also that “the large majority of world Jewry” is descended from the Jews of Khazar.” If this is true, as I believe it is, that modern Jews are not true Israelites it make the claim of a Jewish homeland in Palestine flawed. World Jewry is able to weld considerable power from the Judeo-Christian community who mistakenly believe that the Jews are God’s chosen people. Judeo-Christians and their leaders such as Jerry Falwell, Paul Crouch and Hal Lindsey have continually gone on record stating their unequivocal support for Jews. Going so far as stating that regardless of a persons personal salvation and faith in Jesus Christ, if they do not support the Jews, they will be cursed by God.

Those who understand the historical / religious significance of Europeans identity with Israel usually have more patriotic zeal, racial integrity and commitment to Biblical principal than Judeo-Christians. They are usually more zealous of our national sovereignty, rights of gun ownership, free speech and traditional values. Thus they offer greater resistance to one world government, race-mixing, abortion, gun control and the homosexual agenda than Judeo-Christians who are always fearful that they might offend someone. For that reason there is a consorted effort of the Judeo-Christian crowd to distort and even lie in an effort to prevent people from seriously considering the merits of Christian Identity. For example Viola Larson’s article, Identity: A 'Christian' Religion for White Racists" published in The Christian Research Journal, (Fall 1992, page 20) states, “They appeal to other conservatives concerning such issues as AIDS, abortion, and prison reform. This is where some Christians have been pulled into the circle of Identity.”

Ms. Larson appears to condemn us for doing the very same thing that every other preachers is at liberty to do and is encourage to do. Namely to evangelize their faith to those with open ears and open hearts. David Warren, director of the ADL's St. Louis office, said of Christian Identity, "They look for the disenfranchised, those white people who have a grievance with the world," "Then they just pick, pick, pick at the sore until they have them hooked into Identity."

James Ridgeway, author of Blood in the Face also makes claim that there is something sinister going on when Christian-Identity ministers engage in evangelism. “A Christian-Identity group attempts to widen its base by appealing not just to white power Christian, but to people who don’t like gays, and people who are opposed to abortion.” Ex Catholic priest William Wassmuth of Seattle, Washington is the leader of the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment and promotes the agenda of non whites and homosexuals. He is also very hateful to Christians who believe in Identity. James Ridgeway quotes Wassmuth, “That’s their (Christian-Identity) thrust these days . . . To find these kind of issues that are on people’s minds and use those issues to get people together . . . it’s a hook to get people in front of them.” Hal Mansfield, director of the Religious Movements Resource Center in Fort Collins, Colorado wrote a lengthy article in Cult Observer, (Volume 14, No. 4, 1997) Briefly, here are some of the tactic that he claims Christian-Identity followers us to trick people into Identity.

“When approached by one of their recruiters, one doesn’t hear about supremacy issues. Instead, talk centers around gun control and other more mainstream issues. Later, the true agendas are presented . . .current recruitment seems to revolve around survival materials, especially at exhibitions . . . When people stop by the booth and talk to the operator, he or she will size a person up to determine if he or she might be recruitment material. If the prospect is deemed to be a possible member, he or she will be given other publications, which are stored under the table.”

“Another popular means of recruitment is through the sale of audio and videotapes. The recruiter will approach prospects and ask them to view a tape that has some "stuff" on it, and have the persons give their opinions . . . if the prospect shows an interest in the one or two that do concern Identity group members, then the recruitment process will go to the next stage . . . “Typically, an Identity group will look and sound like a fundamentalist Bible church, masking what they are really about. Most take an anti-gay stance in the community; some on the extreme side. These groups may also take hard-line stances on other issues, such as obscenity or teen pregnancy, in order to create the false impression that they are just fundamentalist preachers, when in fact they are supremacists. “ The lies and distortion of Judeo-Christian against Christian Identity has had success into two distinct areas: 1) causing people to think negatively of Christian Identity, and 2) causing some Christian-Identity ministries to deny they are Christian Identity thinking they will somehow avoid the controversy.

But we must remember that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has always been controversial. The Prophet of Old were often in the midst of controversy, Jesus Christ was always the center of controversy and we today are often in the center of controversy.

Peter attempted to avoid controversy when he denied he knew Jesus Christ. I cannot control the lies and distortion of Judeo-Christians. But I can help restore faith to Christians who are afraid of being called Christian-Identity. We must remember it is not the name “Christian-Identity” that they hate - it is our faith! We must be willing to stand on the principle of truth regardless of what it is called. To avoid the name Christian-Identity thinking that we will thus avoid controversy is to have our eye upon the wrong focus. When we focus on avoiding controversy we are focusing on fear. When we focus on fear we are teaching fear to others.

As a minister I have a responsibility to those who look to us for teaching. It is said that, “The final test of a leader is the he leaves behind in other people the conviction to carry on.” That is what I want to do, to inspire others to carry on in faith. In fear there is death and defeat, in faith their is hope and deliverance. Remember, “When there is hope for the future there is power in the presents.” I really do not care what name is used, there is no power in any name other then the name of Jesus Christ. But if we allow those to hate us to control us then we become their victim. And Victims can never be overcomers!


*Interesting, non-dogmatic articulation of CI by Thomas Robb. I know some (TD?) are not so sanguine about CI. I wonder what the basis for this doubts are. *


Centinel

2005-01-06 05:06 | User Profile

[url=http://www.watchman.org/profile/Identitypro.htm]The Watchman Expositor: Christian Identity Profile[/url]


Okiereddust

2005-01-06 17:55 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Centinel][url=http://www.watchman.org/profile/Identitypro.htm]The Watchman Expositor: Christian Identity Profile[/url]

Christian Identity

 

Publications: Books include Your Heritage, America Free, White and Christian, and The Kingdom of God - Our Heritage. Periodicals include Posse Comitatus Intelligence-Update, America’s Promise Newsletter, The Way, and Scriptures for America Worldwide.
Organizational Structure: Numerous independent groups.
Group Names: Elohim City, America’s Promise, The Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations, Kingdom Identity Ministries, Posse Comitatus, Stone Kingdom Ministries, Christian Conservative Churches, Church of Israel, Scriptures for America/LaPorte Church of Christ, and numerous others.
Unique terms: Identity, Anglo-Israelism, Seedline.

History

The public perception of Identity has been shaped by media coverage of skinheads, neo-Nazis, and hate crimes against minorities. However, the Identity movement is far more diverse, embracing a growing number of disaffected people in America’s heartland. The term "Christian Identity" expresses their belief, supposedly based in Christianity, that the "identity" of the White race is that it is God’s chosen people.

The doctrinal seed of Identity was the theory, first popularized by John Wilson’s book Lectures on Our Israelitish Origins (1840), that the "ten lost tribes of Israel" taken captive by the Assyrians in the eighth century BC had been assimilated into the pagan cultures of Europe and especially Britain. Thus, people of Anglo-Saxon descent were identified as heirs of the promises made to Israel in the Old Testament.1 Anglo-Israel-ism was originally not an anti-Semitic doctrine; its advocates typically viewed the Jews as legitimate descendants of Israel along with the Anglo-Saxon peoples. Not all Anglo-Israelites today are anti-Semitic, nor are they all part of the Identity movement.

In the hands of anti-Semites the doctrine of Anglo-Israelism was transformed into an ideology of hate. Leading the way was William J. Cameron, Henry Ford’s media spokesman and the editor of Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. Beginning in July of 1920, Cameron ran a series of widely distributed, defamatory articles called "The International Jew."2 The Independent was based on a fraudulent document titled Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. The articles were required reading at Ford dealerships across the country and were published in book form. Under public pressure Ford later repudiated the book and closed The Independent in 1927.3

Another merchant of hate, Reuben H. Sawyer, was a Ku Klux Klan member who transformed Anglo-Israelism into a virulent racist theology by linking Judaism with Bolshevism.4 A number of Klan leaders have adopted Identity theology.

A series of California conferences beginning in the late 1930s brought together the emerging leaders of the Identity movement. One man, Gerald L. K. Smith, organized and gave voice to the next generation of Identity leaders. Smith called for, "the deportation of all Zionists, abolition of all ‘Jewish Gestapo organizations,’ shipping all black people to Africa, and liquidation of the United Nations."5 Many of Smith’s co-workers went on to form their own Identity organizations. William Potter Gale, who died in 1988, was one of the founders of the Posse Comitatus. A number of Posse members have had run-ins with law enforcement, the most notable being Gordon Kahl, a tax protester who died in a shootout with authorities in 1983. The Posse believes there is no Constitutional governing power greater than the county sheriff.6

Dan Gayman is head of the Church of Israel in Schell City, Missouri. He is best known for his work in the "seed line," or "serpent’s seed" doctrine. Today Gayman is content to preach Identity, non-violence, and apocalyptic survivalism.

Another leader in the Identity movement is Richard Butler, founder of The Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake, Idaho. Butler’s annual Aryan Nations Congress assembled "racialists" (as they prefer to be called) from across the land. Aryan Nations has been active in outreach into prisons. Its publication, The Way, was influential in the formation of The Aryan Brotherhood, an Identity prison gang. A number of Butler’s followers left his compound in the early 1980s and joined Robert Mathews to form the infamous group, The Order. In the 1990s, Butler has lost his leadership role due to strong rhetoric without accompanying action.7

The "Christian" Identity movement is small in number and lacks central organization and leadership. However, its publications, internet presence, and cable broadcasts reach countless numbers of unseen believers. Its influence is accountable for numerous hate crimes by individual adherents.

Doctrines

In general, Identity groups profess to be Christians of a generically Protestant perspective. It is unclear what most Identity followers believe about such essentials as the Trinity or the atonement. What unites these groups is their hostility toward others, notably Jews, Catholics, and people of other races (especially Blacks).

Anglo-Israelism. Identity followers believe that Anglo-Saxons, or more broadly Whites, are the true people of Israel, the true inheritors of the promises made to Abraham and his descendants. For example, Kingdom Identity Ministries teaches:

  • We believe the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel… This chosen seedline making up the "Christian Nations"…of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race….and are the "Christians" opposed by the Satanic Anti-Christ forces of this world…8


  • Pre-Adamite Theory. Identity advocates claim not only that Whites are the true Israel, but also that Whites are the true descendants of Adam. People of all other races are said to be descended from human beings created before Adam. These pre-Adamites are equated in Identity teaching with the "beasts of the earth" that God had made before Adam (Genesis 1:24-25). For example, Bertrand Camparet of Aryan Nations writes:

  • God had millions of the pre-Adamic Asiatic and African peoples around. . . . If these Negroes and Mongoloids were all that God wanted, he already had them.9 


  • Serpent’s Seed Doctrine. Most Identity believers hold that Cain was the offspring of Eve and Satan (represented by the serpent). According to this "two seed lines" doctrine, as it is also known, Cain and his descendants intermarried with the pre-Adamites, resulting in a "mongrel" race now known as the Jews. For example, the Aryan Nations Web site states:

  • WE BELIEVE that there are literal children of Satan in the world today. These children are the descendants of Cain, who was the result of Eve’s original sin, her physical seduction by Satan.10


  • Likewise, the Web site of The Posse Comitatus asserts:

  • Most, that call themselves jews [sic] today are in fact of the race of Lucifer through his son Cain. Cain was inherently evil from the beginning because he was of Lucifer’s seed. Eve was beguiled by Lucifer and did, in the carnal sense, lay with him and begot Cain. It was a pair on the ground, not an apple on a tree! Eve was deceived by Lucifer and was lead (sic) to believe that she was laying with Yahweh God.11


  • Armageddon as an Imminent Race War. God’s warning that there would be enmity between the woman’s seed and the serpent’s seed (Genesis 3:15) is interpreted as forecasting conflict between Whites and non-Whites, especially the Jews. According to Identity belief, there is a centuries-old Jewish conspiracy to control the world. The United States government, the United Nations, and all major social entities are regarded as Jewish puppet organizations. For example, Colonel Jack Mohr of Crusade for Christ and Country has stated:

  • We know they have intimidated and imposed their will on our own government and every government in the nations of Christendom, through their dominance of finance, government, church, education, and the media.12


  • The Identity movement claims that resistance by Whites to this global conspiracy will eventually result in Armageddon. They typically view America as a kind of new Promised Land and as the place where the Whites’ final stand against the Jews and other races will take place very soon. At an Aryan Nations meeting, Thom Robb, a KKK leader, put it this way:

  • There is a war in America today and there are two camps. One camp is in Washington, D.C., the federal government controlled by the anti-Christ Jews. . . . [T]heir goal is the destruction of our race, our faith and our people. And our goal is the destruction of them. There is no middle ground. We’re not going to take any survivors, or prisoners. It’s us or them.13 


  • Biblical Response

    Since advocates of the Identity teaching use the Bible to justify their racist views, it is important for Christians to understand what the Bible actually says about these matters. It should be kept in mind, however, that the principal motivations of the Identity movement are political, economic, and emotional.

    Anglo-Israelism. The Bible contradicts the idea that the ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel were "lost" when they were conquered by Assyria. The northern kingdom was destroyed, but a remnant of the people of Israel were preserved (Amos 9:9). Some Israelites fled into the southern kingdom of Judah before and at the time of the Assyrian onslaught, a fact confirmed by archaeological excavations showing that Jerusalem’s population swelled at the end of the eighth century B.C.14  Other Israelites returned to the land years later, either to Judah or the north.

  • I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them (Zech. 10:10).


  • In the New Testament period the people of Israel, not only of the ten tribes but of all twelve, were scattered, but they were not "lost" or missing in unknown parts of the world. Thus, James could address his epistle "to the twelve tribes scattered abroad" (James 1:1). Paul could refer to the resurrection from the dead as "the promise to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly serve God day and night" (Acts 26:6-7). Anna, the prophetess at the Jerusalem temple who recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah, was "of the tribe of Asher" (Luke 2:36). Obviously, the tribe of Asher was not lost, nor was it to be found across the continent.

    Pre-Adamite Theory. The theory that all non-Whites are descended from a pre-Adamite race of human beings is flatly contradictory to the Bible’s teaching. Genesis states, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27). It was "man" as such (that is, mankind, including both "male and female"), not the White man, that God created in his image. That this includes people of all races and nations is clearly affirmed by Paul:

  • The God who made the world and all things in it . . . He made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth (Acts 17:24, 26).


  • The Identity theory that the non-white races are referred to in Genesis as "the beasts of the earth" (Gen. 1:24-25) is, therefore, utterly false. The term refers generally to land animals and is never used in the Bible to refer to humans of any race.

    Serpent’s Seed Doctrine. The idea that Eve had sexual relations with the serpent, or Satan, or that the serpent was in any way responsible for the conception and birth of Cain, is totally foreign to the Bible:

  • And Adam knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord (Genesis 4:1).


  • Here the Holy Spirit explicitly identifies Adam as the biological father of Cain, and makes it clear that Eve regarded Cain’s birth as a blessing from God.

    Of course, race is completely irrelevant to a person’s standing with God.

  • For you are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Jesus....There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:26-28).

    After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands (Revelation 7:9 and Revelation 5:9).


  • Armageddon as an Imminent Race War. Contrary to popular opinion, Armageddon in the Bible does not refer to a kind of "World War III" between rival groups of people. In the Book of Revelation, Armageddon represents the gathering of the demonically inspired powers of the nations of the earth, where God brings his wrath on them (Rev. 16:14-21). Nowhere in the Bible is the final judgment of the wicked presented as a battle between peoples of different races.

    The Identity teaching does not merely result in a particularly radical (and often violent) form of racism. It utterly negates the gospel of grace. The message of Christianity is that God graciously extends salvation to people irrespective of anything which they might imagine would make them superior to other people. "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). The ultimate conflict in this world is not between Whites and non-Whites, but between God and Satan, between righteousness and sin. Our fight is not with "flesh and blood"—with human beings, of any race—but with the spiritual forces of evil that wage war against our souls (Ephesians 6:12). The Identity doctrine perverts Christianity from a redemptive theology into a racist ideology. It is therefore not truly Christian.

    1 Richard Abanes, Rebellion, Racism and Religion: American Militias (InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois, 1996): 157-9.
    2 Jeffrey Kaplan, Radical Religion in America (Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1997) 1.
    3 James Ridgeway, Blood in the Face, (New York, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1990): 38-43.
    4 Richard Barkun, Religion and the Religious Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994): 24-5.
    5 J. Gordon Melton [Online], URL http://www.americanreligion.org/cultwtch/identity.html.
    6 Don Black, "The Watchman Has Been Shut Down," {Online}. URL http://www2.stormfront.org/watchman/index.html.
    7 Kaplan, 5-6, 55-6.
    8 See "Doctrinal Statement of Beliefs," [Online]. URL http://www.kingidentity.com/doctrine.html.
    9 Bertrand Camparet, The Cain-Satanic Seed Line (Hayden Lake, ID: Aryan Nations, n.d.), 5, quoted in Abanes, American Militias, 163.
    10 The ARYAN NATIONS website [Online]. URL http: //www.nidlink.com/~aryanvic/index-E.html.
    11 "Racial Identity," [Online]. URL http://www.posse-comitatus.org/p2.html.
    12 Jack Mohr, Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative? as quoted by Viola Larson, "Identity: A ‘Christian’ Reli-gion for White Racists," CRI Journal (Fall 1992): 23.
    13 Thom Robb, in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 22 July 1986, 9A, quoted in Abanes, American Militias, 167.
    14 Magen Broshi, "Part of the Ten Lost Tribes Located," Biblical Archeology Review, 1 (September 1975): 27.

    Resources

    American Militias, by Richard Abanes. Abanes documents the infiltration of racism and religious extremism into the movement and offers suggestions for public response to help defuse the volatility. 296 pages $15.

    Cults, New Religious Movements, And Your Family, by Richard Abanes. A good overview of modern aberrant religious movements as well as old religions just now gaining influence in the United States. There is a good section on the Christian Identity Movement. 317 pages - $15.00.

        [/QUOTE]Well I don't really know where to begin.  But a writeup that chiefly references shrill leftists like Abanes and people like Kaplan can hardly be viewed as authoritative for people here.
    

    What is most significant here about this writeup though is actualy though that it validates the basicaly sound theological origins of the identity movement. Any movement that originated from Gerald L. K. Smith, an prominent Christian Church minister (a bastion of orthodoxy) is not going to be fundamentally heretical.

    All I see fundamentally there in CI theologically is the British Israelism, which by itself (i.e. Garner Ted Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God) is basically considered perfectly innocuous. Sure there seem to be some practitioneers of CI who go overboard in trying to get an explicit rather than an implicit scriptural acknowledgement of racial categories and differences, but the way writeups like this tend to mix different categories of people (like Richard Butler) and categorize the most nutty, weird, and borderline pagan as epitimies of the movement show to my mind just a pitiable lack of real religious insight and excess of politically correct deference. Obviously people like this have let leftists do the research and draw the conclusions for them, out of fear of getting tarred as being not negative enough and covertly sympathetic and racist themselves.


    Texas Dissident

    2005-01-06 19:09 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]What is most significant here about this writeup though is actualy though that it validates the basicaly sound theological origins of the identity movement. Any movement that originated from Gerald L. K. Smith, an prominent Christian Church minister (a bastion of orthodoxy) is not going to be fundamentally heretical.[/QUOTE]

    Gerald L.K. Smith was an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. Although current CI proponents like to claim him (and the Left likes to label him) as CI, he was most certainly NOT Christian Identity. I've never read anything from Smith that deviated from historical Christian orthodoxy. One may not agree with his politics (in large part I do), but his theology was basically sound.

    Sure there seem to be some practitioneers of CI who go overboard in trying to get an explicit rather than an implicit scriptural acknowledgement of racial categories and differences, but the way writeups like this tend to mix different categories of people (like Richard Butler) and categorize the most nutty, weird, and borderline pagan as epitimies of the movement show to my mind just a pitiable lack of real religious insight and excess of politically correct deference. Obviously people like this have let leftists do the research and draw the conclusions for them, out of fear of getting tarred as being not negative enough and covertly sympathetic and racist themselves.[/QUOTE]

    I'll grant you that the above Watchman review comes from a rather politically correct angle, but one shouldn't let that take away from the theological points it makes, because there it is correct. You asked me why I'm not sanguine concerning CI and I assure you that it is entirely because of doctrine.

    The Left wants to paint men like Gerald Smith as CI, as they probably would any America-first/militia/hard-shell fundamentalist Baptist-type, but that doesn't make them CI. CI is a heretical cult specifically because of its "Serpent Seed" doctrine which results in a theology built around jews, blacks and other coloreds being less than fully human and somehow outside of or beyond the need of salvation like everyone else. That is a gross distortion of the Gospel and we all know what St. Paul said about those who preach any other gospel than the one he preached.

    The Anglo-Israelism stuff is just silly in that it is not needed. The Christian Church is the true Israel, end of story. At the foot of the cross, blood just doesn't matter. For all have sinned, fallen short and in need of a redeeming Saviour.

    That's pretty much it.


    Centinel

    2005-01-06 19:49 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Texas Dissident]The Anglo-Israelism stuff is just silly in that it is not needed. The Christian Church is the true Israel, end of story.

    Yup. The whole motive behind CI in the first place is a contorted effort to claim that Anglos are the true heirs to God's OT promises, not today's "Khazar" Jews. Even if the archaeological evidence supported this theory from a genealogical stance, it doesn't mean squat in light of the New Testament. Faith in Christ, not bloodline, is what qualifies a person membership in the Israel of God. And oh, BTW, the reward is on the other side, not temporal.

    [url=http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?book_id=55&chapter=3&version=9]Galatians 3[/url] is just as devastating to CI as it is to Christian Zionism.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-06 19:54 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Gerald L.K. Smith was an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. Although current CI proponents like to claim him (and the Left likes to label him) as CI, he was most certainly NOT Christian Identity. I've never read anything from Smith that deviated from historical Christian orthodoxy. One may not agree with his politics (in large part I do), but his theology was basically sound. Good starting point.

    I'll grant you that the above Watchman review comes from a rather politically correct angle, but one shouldn't let that take away from the theological points it makes, because there it is correct. You asked me why I'm not sanguine concerning CI and I assure you that it is entirely because of doctrine. Reread the article. Like most on CI, its virtually impossible to find any real theological points that aren't smothered in politically correct polemics, which makes it very hard to make any theological interpretation at all.

    The Left wants to paint men like Gerald Smith as CI, as they probably would any America-first/militia/hard-shell fundamentalist Baptist-type, but that doesn't make them CI. CI is a heretical cult specifically because of its "Serpent Seed" doctrine which results in a theology built around jews, blacks and other coloreds being less than fully human and somehow outside of or beyond the need of salvation like everyone else. That is a gross distortion of the Gospel and we all know what St. Paul said about those who preach any other gospel than the one he preached.

    Like any theological doctrine, not to mention from those far outside the boundaries of rspectable society, CI naturally will acquire a variegated core of preachers and practitioneers. The key in evaluating a movement [B]as a whole[/B] is identifying what doctrines are truly core, central parts of the movement and which are merely peripherial.

    That is the issue for instance with NS paganism/atheism. Although some such as Petr make an argument, which I haven't had time yet to fully review, that differing points of view on Christianity still struggled with some success for legitimacy within NS, it does seem that the ideological body of NS, exemplified by Rosenberg and symbolized by Hitler and Himmler, pretty much rejected Christianity ad tolerated it only for tactical reasons.

    Does the same situation exist with regard to CI? Is there a recognized core body group or individual around which the "serpent seed" doctrine coalesced to form and define CI? If you maintain that, you must go against both articles like the Watchman and Thomas Robb (who seems to be as much of an authority on today's CI movement as anyone.)

    [quote=Thomas Robb]In recent years there has been numerous news articles that makes mention of what we call Christian Identity. Most news story say something like this, > “The Christian Identity religion is an anti-government aberration of Christianity that teaches, Negroes are beasts and Jews are the children of Satan..... ”

    He specifically denies such a central place for this "serpent seed" doctrine in CI. [quote=Thomas Robb]The first thing that must be understood is that there is no such things a Christian-Identity religion. There is no Christian-Identity headquarters, there is no Christian-Identity spiritual leader, there is no Christian-Identity “Bible,” there is no Christian-Identity revelation, there is no Christian-Identity prophet, there is no Christian-Identity holy place, there is no Christian-Identity membership lists, there are no Christian-Identity rituals, and there is no such thing as a Christian-Identity member. No one can fill out an application to “join” Christian-Identity. Christian-Identity refers to Christian people who believe that the descendants of the ancient people of Israel are today identified with the people of Europe.

    It’s that simple!

    The authorities like the Watchman don't make such a claim really, if you examine it. They simply through out some provocative examples for color, then go on to talk about CI's general political stances and marginality. The obvious intent is whatever CI's believe specifically on the serpent seed doctrine, it all ends up amounting to the same thing anyway as manifested in their hardline general and unapologetic anti-semitism.

    Conclusions most people find automatic and not subject to question. People on this forum such as you and I though are completely in the other camp - we hold such "arguments" as completely empty of substantive content.

    The Anglo-Israelism stuff is just silly in that it is not needed. The Christian Church is the true Israel, end of story. At the foot of the cross, blood just doesn't matter. For all have sinned, fallen short and in need of a redeeming Saviour.

    That's pretty much it.[/QUOTE]

    True, at the end of the story. However politically its relevence reminds me somewhat of Keynes famous axiom "in the long run we're all dead".

    In the next life we all will be equal, I won't argue that. In this one though there's still some issues here we have to deal with. If CI doesn't deal with them adequately, no religious authority in America today seems to do so much better as far as I know.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-06 20:02 | User Profile

    EDIT: Okie was referencing Gal 3:28:

    Now most of the theological world (not to mention our pagan-nationalist "friends" would also say this passage is completely devastating to any form of Christian nationalism whatsoever. How you apply this to CI's yet exempt yourselves is to all but the tiniest fraction of purists such as yourselves today one of the most complete forms of theological obscuritanism imaginable.

    EDIT: Sorry I screwed up this post thinking I was replying to it Okie....I was able to save your last paragraph though. --Cent


    Centinel

    2005-01-06 20:25 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]Now most of the theological world (not to mention our pagan-nationalist "friends" would also say this passage is completely devastating to any form of Christian nationalism whatsoever. How you apply this to CI's yet exempt yourselves is to all but the tiniest fraction of purists such as yourselves today one of the most complete forms of theological obscuritanism imaginable.

    From the Lutheran persepctive of "two kingdoms" theology, God has assigned specific responsibilities to Church and state.

    The state is responsible for maintaining order, and is really not useful for anything else. It doesn't evangelize, nor is it responsible for instilling Christian values in the hearts of men (which is at odds with the feeling among American evangelicals who think that the Moral Majority and legislation can replace the Church in this regard). Viewed in this light, most nationalistic issues are outside the scope of Church matters.

    EDIT: Remember this thread? [url=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4361&highlight=weyrich]Paul M. Weyrich On Rethinking Culture Wars[/url]

    In fact, today's orthodox Lutherans can point to disastrous consequences within Lutheranism itself when church and state are unbiblically yoked together, such as in Europe


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-06 20:47 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Centinel]From the Lutheran persepctive of "two kingdoms" theology, God has assigned specific responsibilities to Church and state.

    The state is responsible for maintaining order, and is really not useful for anything else. It doesn't evangelize, nor is it responsible for instilling Christian values in the hearts of men (which is at odds with the feeling among American evangelicals who think that the Moral Majority and legislation can replace the Church in this regard).

    Viewed in this light, most nationalistic issues are outside the scope of Church matters. As a libertarian, I can understand your church/state phobia, even if I don't share that myself. Note however that you are using this passage not just in a govermental/political sense, but in a social sense. You seem to be rejecting CI's, asserting Gal 3:26-28 supports you, because they do maintain a stance of absolute racial and gender equality/equivalence.

    Based on some of your other views and your memberhip on this forum, even as our representative paleolibertarian, this is a rather unusual position to take.

    EDIT: Remember this thread? [url=http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4361&highlight=weyrich]Paul M. Weyrich On Rethinking Culture Wars[/url]

    Yes. So?

    In fact, today's orthodox Lutherans can point to disastrous consequences within Lutheranism itself when church and state are unbiblically yoked together, such as in Europe[/QUOTE]Lutheranism is different than the American puritan/covenant type cultural heritage in some respects, which has its good and bad points. But for now that's neither here nor there. As above it seems to me your misunderstanding is on a more basic level.


    Texas Dissident

    2005-01-06 21:29 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]Reread the article. Like most on CI, its virtually impossible to find any real theological points that aren't smothered in politically correct polemics, which makes it very hard to make any theological interpretation at all. [/QUOTE]

    I don't think it's that hard for a discerning reader.

    Like any theological doctrine, not to mention from those far outside the boundaries of rspectable society, CI naturally will acquire a variegated core of preachers and practitioneers. The key in evaluating a movement [B]as a whole[/B] is identifying what doctrines are truly core, central parts of the movement and which are merely peripherial.

    I agree. In my opinion, the core, central, defining part of CI is 'serpent seed' doctrine.

    Is there a recognized core body group or individual around which the "serpent seed" doctrine coalesced to form and define CI? If you maintain that, you must go against both articles like the Watchman and Thomas Robb (who seems to be as much of an authority on today's CI movement as anyone.)

    I understand your point, but probably because I am sympathetic with the peripheral political/social issues of some of these folks the line as to what is truly CI and what is say, rural Southern hard-shell Baptist is quite clear to me. Groups like WCOTC are CI. A good bit of the Klan and/or Bob Jones U-sorts are not. Again, it all goes back to the Scriptures and doctrinal orthodoxy.

    He specifically denies such a central place for this "serpent seed" doctrine in CI.

    He may deny it, but in my opinion that's it.

    The authorities like the Watchman don't make such a claim really, if you examine it. They simply through out some provocative examples for color, then go on to talk about CI's general political stances and marginality. The obvious intent is whatever CI's believe specifically on the serpent seed doctrine, it all ends up amounting to the same thing anyway as manifested in their hardline general and unapologetic anti-semitism.

    True, but what constitutes a 'cult' is not completely tied to just doctrinal heresy. There are psychological and social dynamics at work, too. i.e. What are the real world psychological and social effects of their particular religious practice and belief?

    If CI doesn't deal with them adequately, no religious authority in America today seems to do so much better as far as I know.[/QUOTE]

    One might say the same thing about Mormons or Jehovah Witness, as well.


    Texas Dissident

    2005-01-06 21:37 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]EDIT: Okie was referencing Gal 3:28:

    Now most of the theological world (not to mention our pagan-nationalist "friends" would also say this passage is completely devastating to any form of Christian nationalism whatsoever. How you apply this to CI's yet exempt yourselves is to all but the tiniest fraction of purists such as yourselves today one of the most complete forms of theological obscuritanism imaginable.[/QUOTE]

    Not at all, Okie. The scripture is quite clear. St. Paul is talking about spiritual equality. A person couldn't use that scripture to discount nationalism/segregation than they could to support arguments for homosexuality or transgenderism.


    annalex

    2005-01-06 22:12 | User Profile

    The transnational character of Christian theology comes not just from the Galatians verse, but from the entire dynamic of Christ's gradually turning away from Jewish tribalism toward the world of the Gentiles, culminating in the guests at the wedding parable.

    Christianity today -- in particular Christian orthodoxy -- is sustained by various non-whites in Africa and Latin America. Its largest growth is in China.

    So there is nothing in Christianity that requires European ancestry.

    The real question is, does European (including white American) identity require Christianity? It is hard to argue otherwise, since European culture is fundamentally Christian. The classical world has been thouroughly transformed by Christian Rome and then revisited and tranformed some more by the Renaissance. The degenerate secular culture of the 20 sentury is simply not a contender.

    But this observation, I think, while validating some Christian Identity premises also removes it from the religious sphere. Educators, politicians and artists would do well to insist on their Christian identity. Pastors should avoid the heresy of tribalism.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-06 23:41 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Texas Dissident]I don't think it's that hard for a discerning reader. I'll take that as a pass. This article in one sense is just specious - one doesn't have time to go over it point by point. But generally summations of any religion by people with a strong overriding preexisting prejudice are of little value in determining what a religion really is anyway. Especially one without a central authority. You always come up with a completely warped picture if all you rely on is such accounts.

    I agree. In my opinion, the core, central, defining part of CI is 'serpent seed' doctrine.

    Well it is difficult to evaluate opinions if you don't know what they're based on. Is it just something you've read on the internet like this?

    I've been to CI services several times, and I've never once heard the "serpent seed" or "pre-adamite" line discussed. Anglo-Israelism certainly is, but like I say, it is also so in the Worldwide Church of God. So I ask you exactly, how is the CI automatically so much different, except for sharing your political viewpoints (unlike the PC churches)

    I understand your point, but probably because I am sympathetic with the peripheral political/social issues of some of these folks the line as to what is truly CI and what is say, rural Southern hard-shell Baptist is quite clear to me. Groups like WCOTC are CI. A good bit of the Klan and/or Bob Jones U-sorts are not. Again, it all goes back to the Scriptures and doctrinal orthodoxy.

    I don't know what you are doing here psychologically - but it seems like you are doing some weird contortions theologically/politically, that have something to do with who you think you like and don't like but don't have anything to do. I don't know.

    True, but what constitutes a 'cult' is not completely tied to just doctrinal heresy. There are psychological and social dynamics at work, too. i.e. What are the real world psychological and social effects of their particular religious practice and belief?

    Do you mean do they gather round campfires and sacrifice small infants?

    I don't think you can really answer that based on media stereotypes. You'd just have to really know some CI people - and I don't mean on the internet.

    For someone who has already seen the necessity of adopting views that most people regard the same way as you do CI, you seem puzzling complacent and self-assured about the accuracy of your conceptions about CI, which seem procurred from sources you've already acknowledged as inaccurate.

    One might say the same thing about Mormons or Jehovah Witness, as well.[/QUOTE]I guess you're just barking up the cult tree here. Pre-Adamism is an integral part of Mormonism true. (putting aside whether it really is for CI). But "psychologically/socially do you question their legitimacy? Politically and economically they are now quite mainstream.


    Centinel

    2005-01-07 00:11 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]I've been to CI services several times, and I've never once heard the "serpent seed" or "pre-adamite" line discussed. Anglo-Israelism certainly is, but like I say, it is also so in the Worldwide Church of God. So I ask you exactly, how is the CI automatically so much different, except for sharing your political viewpoints (unlike the PC churches)

    Would you consider [url=http://www.kingidentity.com/]Kingdom Identity Ministries[/url] to be an orthodox and respresentative source of Christian Identity doctrine? They seem to have some definite and up-front views on seedline.

    They also seem by far to be the most visible proponents of CI doctrine in far-right media. They place print ads in American Free Press, radio ads on Chuck Harder's radio show carried by WHRI, and offer audio content on Soundwaves2000.com via their [url=http://www.soundwaves2000.com/hot/]Herald of Truth[/url] show.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-07 01:43 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Centinel]Would you consider [url=http://www.kingidentity.com/]Kingdom Identity Ministries[/url] to be an orthodox and respresentative source of Christian Identity doctrine? They seem to have some definite and up-front views on seedline.

    They also seem by far to be the most visible proponents of CI doctrine in far-right media. They place print ads in American Free Press, radio ads on Chuck Harder's radio show carried by WHRI, and offer audio content on Soundwaves2000.com via their [url=http://www.soundwaves2000.com/hot/]Herald of Truth[/url] show.[/QUOTE]Very good Centinel. Kingdom Identity Ministries is Charles Robb himself BTW so we can see how he spins the facts of his doctrine. And you're right, you can interpret their views on "seedline" and "pre-adamite" man to be pretty much what Watchman Expositor says they are.

    I think though you have to though put things in perspective, and view the imagery of their doctrine through the same window as you do that of mainstream Christianity to be fair. At least as nationalists/paleoconservatives who claim we do not exercise prejudice against fellow judeoskeptics you do.

    Robb claims CI as identifying "the descendants of the ancient people of Israel..today.. with the people of Europe". (I.e, British-Israelism) Tex by contrast identifies CI with "the serpent seed" doctrine. Whose right? Well they both are.

    It isn't surprising on reflection that I all I heard at services were British-Israelism, with nothing of the "serpent seed" or "pre-adamite line". After all when you go to Churches today virtually anywhere you will hear plenty about "sharing the good news" "salvation" or the "blessings of knowing God". You don't hear much explicitly about Hell, Damnation, the inate depravity of man especially the heathen or the exclusion of the damned from the rightous community of believers. But their certainly in the scripture. Thesis requires Antithesis. Lightness shines in opposition to darkness.

    But although the negative antithesis is certainly there, and acknowledged by all orthodox Christianity, it certainly is a mistake to focus on these things today as the prominent aspects of today's Christianity, even in the (small o) orthodox Churches. Many observers of today's Churches say these topics are almost avoided like the plague. In the same way I get the impression that the CI churches, whose psychology really appropriates pretty generally from the mainstream religious world (from my personal experience I definitely get this about these Churches) avoid negativity. Robb himself expresses this "The KKK doesn't hate black people, we just love white people"

    Now critics of nationalism reject this interpretation of CI in the same way I think that postmodernist/leftist critics of Christianity today in general continue to view it as a bigoted ideology of exclusion and intolerance. So I don't ask you to close your eyes to this aspect of CI. I'd just suggest you need to view it through the same filters as you do regular Christianity and life in general to be fair. Attitudes whose prejudicial lack of we are still prone to pick up from today's culture, even as we here struggle so hard against it.

    In some sense the attitudes of CI may seem quaint and paradoxical, but to me they serve a useful purpose, which is to highlight the continuing role God has in the spiritual life and mission of nations - doctrines that because of cultural Marxism have been almost completely eviscerated from mainstream Christianity. Or outright perverted (aka dispensationalist Christian Zionism). An argument can be made for a certain sinister aspect of its doctrines, but I just view it as an example of the natural tendency towards extremism picked up by cultural marginalization. If not for this, I think its quite likely that the dynamics of the movement might have stayed in the orthodox path of Gerald L. K. Smith (I suspect here the Watchman Expositor is accurate), not have developed some of the doctrinal pecularities that movements composed of marginal people on the outskirts of society under great stress often pick up.

    I agree there are excesses and failures in CI, as in any Christian group, and in its particular position what one might expect. Overall though I'd say as a patriot Christian honest acknowledment of its and their limitations should not cause me to abandon or turn my back on them. They are your brothers and mine.

    But thanks for your good insight and research Centinel. And Texas Dissident also. I agree these things need to be discussed, especially as really they are so rarely discussed by people who are not overtly hostile politically and ideologically, either mainstreamers (hostile to the judeophobic) or mainstream WN types, today rather generally suspicious of any form of Christianity, or anything that even uses the terms "Israel". There is some baggage, but also in CI there is are paradigms in Christianity I think we definetly need to pick up on and learn from for paleoconservatism/nationalism to strengthen. Right now western and particularly American paleoconservatism/nationalism does not really have a reliable religious confession (acknowledging your Lutheran protestations and much undeniably good work Centinel/Texas Dissident, along with the Catholic and Orthodox members here). I don't think we can really afford to be so picky we have to be exclusionary, although there does seem to be a lot of improvment needed in CI for it really to be an authoritative and really credible religious paradigm.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-07 02:16 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]I've been to CI services several times, and I've never once heard the "serpent seed" or "pre-adamite" line discussed. Anglo-Israelism certainly is, but like I say, it is also so in the Worldwide Church of God. So I ask you exactly, how is the CI automatically so much different, except for sharing your political viewpoints (unlike the PC churches)[/QUOTE]My correction Tex, thanks kindly to Centinel (see post 15). As usual, you trump me in your yeoman's knowledge of Church doctrine and doctrinal boilerplate. I still am unsure exactly how the "serpent seed" and "pe-adamite man" doctrines actually play out concretely in the dynamics of CI Church/organization life, but I can see and do agree with you that they are valid points of criticism which must be dealt with.


    il ragno

    2005-01-07 06:28 | User Profile

    Fascinating. Here's some more CI material, w/links:

    [QUOTE]Delivered-To: [email]mlindste@mo-net.com[/email] Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:12:08 -0800 (PST) From: Subject: church To: [email]mlindste@mo-net.com[/email]

    Hi, I tried to e-mail you yesterday, but don't think it went. We just moved to the XXXXX, MO area, and haven't been able to find a church or group to associate with. Do you know of any within 25 miles of XXXXX, Missouri?

    =============

    I really can't help you because I'm not a pastor but rather more of a politician. It also depends upon what church you attend. I'm assuming that since you have asked me, that you are Christian Identity of some kind.

    You see, most Dual-Seedline Christian Identity congregations are small, with from one-three families in them meeting in their own homes. They simply do not want to be harassed for their beliefs, and they keep to themselves. I'd have no more idea of who they are or where they meet than you do. I approve of this behavior.

    If you were to ask for a list of DS churches that do not mind visitors, I'd suggest Bob Hallstrom of Kingdom Identity Ministries might have a listing:

    [url]http://www.kingidentity.com/[/url]

    Or Christian Identity Ministries

    [url]http://www.christianidentityministries.org/[/url]

    also out of Harrison, Arkansas. Harrison Arkansas is, and has been, the place with the largest collection of Christian Identity congregations since the time of Gerald Smith. If you lived within 25 miles of Harrison Arkansas, then you couldn't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting an Identity congregation or Identity Klan.

    I would suggest that under no circumstances do you have anything to do with Dan Gayman, from the area around Nevada, Missouri, as Gayman is entirely greedy, out for none other than himself, took money from The Order, and then testified against them at the Ft. Smith Sedition Trial. The jews are trying to make Gayman 'the Identity pastor' because he is their tool. Yes, Gayman is Eric Rudolph's pastor, yet it is probably because of Gayman that ZOG has decided to make Rudolph an example, because they have a built-in test-i-liar in Gayman. Gayman has cheated his own brother, anyone who was stupid enough to send him money, and as said before, took money from the Order and then when under pressure for his stupidity 'forgot' that he was supposed to fear only YHWH. Gayman should have simply said that YHWH gave him the Order money, said that he didn't ever question the workings of YHWH, and left it at that, but instead the greedy feeb broke and testilied. If Gayman will screw over his own brother, and his supporters, then you are better off simply reading stuff from one of many CI Internet churches linked to my Web page.

    A contribution should get you all manner of things. Remember, Christ himself never took a tithe because Christ was not a Levite, but a Judean. If Christ never took a tithe, neither does anyone claiming to be one of Christ's pastors have any right to demand one.

    [url]http://www.martinlindstedt.org/llinks.html#CI[/url]

    Clifton Emahiser is deemed by the devout scholars in DS-CI to be the most thorough DS scholar living. He publishes a monthly letter with his new study from Fostoria Ohio. Bertrand Comparet by 1969 compiled most of the Dual-Seedline doxology which can be found in the Kingdom Identity Ministies AIT course. But Emahiser adds the chrome. Anyone who considers himself to be Dual-Seedline and wants to be a pastor grounded in DS doxology first has the AIT course as a reference and Emahiser's new studies as continuing education.

    Clifton A. Emahiser's Teaching Ministries 1012 N. Vine Street, Fostoria, Ohio 44830 [url]http://churchoftrueisrael.com/emahiser/[/url]

    Kingdom Identity Ministries, P.O. Box 1021, Harrison, Arkansas 72602 [url]http://www.kingidentity.com/ait.htm[/url]

    Part of understanding Dual-Seedline is understanding that Dual-Seedline belief and practice is mainly about doxology, not in going to church or congregation with scattered others. We don't need someboy confirming that we are believing the right stuff -- we know that we are -- so we don't need company in order to help us to keep our Faith. Thus our congregations are small, scattered, and not advertised to outsiders.


    If you are a One-Seedliner, then unlike the Dual-Seedliners, who are separate but who are tied by doxology, then you are bound more by considerations of fellowship. One-Seedliners are notorious in being 'pastor bound.' The largest OSL-CI pastor is Pete Peters. I sometimes attend his Memorial Day doings in Branson, Missouri 80 miles away.

    However, there are few One-Seedline congregations because they tend to stick with whatever national radio or Internet pastor they prefer. I like meeting with One-Seedliners when they meet in mass because they are nice people. You might find out if any of them live next to you id you were to attend one of Peters' Branson visits next Memorial Day.

    I'd avoid like the plague the Anninius & Sapphira bunch on Stormfront, namely self-ordained 'Pastor&Pastoress' Klunt and Ksludge Downey, at

    [url]http://www.kinsmanredeemer.com/[/url]

    They hate Dual-Seedline Christian Identity. Three years ago, Klunt tried to have banned Willie Martin from an FBI listening post masquerading as a CI jewhoogruppen after the rest of the Dual-Seedliners had been banned. I asked for dirt on this evil bitch, and I found it........... I[/I] In addition, the Downeys are jealous of Pete Peters and slander Peters whenever they can, and while I'm not a supporter of Peters, someone is going to be the predominate One-Seedline pastor, and it might as well be Peters who leaves us Dual-Seedliners alone if we leave him alone. So Ksludge&Klunt Downey are held in suspicion and contempt by Dual-Seedliners, most One-Seedliners, and everyone in the Klan in Washington and parts of Oregon.

    So, if you are Dual-Seedline, contact Kingdom Identity Ministries or some other ministers in Harrison Arkansas. If you are One-Seedline, contact Pete Peters for congregations under him.

    This was a useful question to answer, so I'll make a public posting of your inquiry, but keep your name private.

    --Martin Lindstedt [url]www.martinlindstedt.org[/url] ______[/QUOTE]


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-07 07:31 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=il ragno]Fascinating. Here's some more CI material, w/links:[/QUOTE]

    Very interesting indeed. Thanks for digging up this material, wherever you found it.

    You see, most Dual-Seedline Christian Identity congregations are small, with from one-three families in them meeting in their own homes. They simply do not want to be harassed for their beliefs, and they keep to themselves. I'd have no more idea of who they are or where they meet than you do. I approve of this behavior.

    No real mystery here actually. Sounds a little bit like the reason they all meet in small groups is that's the largest groups can get without splitting. Like that old French saying - when you have two Dutchman - you have a church. When you have three Dutchman, you have a schism. :lol:

    Interesting also the distinction between One and Dual Seedliners. I'd say that Tex was off about the dual seedliner's defining CI, except for reading Pete Peters no longer calls himself CI, but is till labeled that way just the same. Maybe being in CI is sort of like the Mafia - once there you're stuck, whether you like it or not :lol:.

    I do wonder where dual seedlining and all these particular aspects of CI came about, if as it appears according to this CI as a movement if not a coherent ideology originates with Gerald Smith. I'd suspect it's obviously rather clandestine nature from the time of Smith makes tracing its history and evolution of its theology more difficult. I'd say though its fairly evident that dual seedlining and pre-adamitism are things that crept in as the mainstream southern Churches became more skeptical and progressively hostile to racialism, and CI pastors needed easy ways to answer pro-integration arguments from these people. Theologically they seem at best quite ticky-tac, but they do have the advantage of simplicity and easy integration with racialist doctrine in general once you accept their basic premises.


    Texas Dissident

    2005-01-07 16:34 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Okiereddust]Very good Centinel. Kingdom Identity Ministries is Charles Robb himself BTW so we can see how he spins the facts of his doctrine. And you're right, you can interpret their views on "seedline" and "pre-adamite" man to be pretty much what Watchman Expositor says they are.

    Here's another article on CI from the Christian Research Institute (the late Walter Martin's organization): [url]http://www.equip.org/free/DI100.htm[/url]

    Again though, some of the cutural/social/political views of the author come from a rather PC mainstream perspective, but hopefully you can see some common theological themes.

    I think though you have to though put things in perspective, and view the imagery of their doctrine through the same window as you do that of mainstream Christianity to be fair. At least as nationalists/paleoconservatives who claim we do not exercise prejudice against fellow judeoskeptics you do.

    This is a very thoughtful post Okie and I thank you for it. More often than not and especially on-line, whenever terms like orthodoxy and heresy start getting bandied about the discussion quickly descends into bitter polemics. Issues quickly get cloudy and bogged down and we lose sight of the real people that are making the arguments, asking questions, etc. in the first place. I know I'm as guilty as anybody. Couple that with limited time and, well, sometimes I wonder if these internet forums do more harm than good. I hope you don't think I'm attacking, ridiculing or berating anything here because I don't mean to come off that way.

    Robb claims CI as identifying "the descendants of the ancient people of Israel..today.. with the people of Europe". (I.e, British-Israelism) Tex by contrast identifies CI with "the serpent seed" doctrine. Whose right? Well they both are...Thesis requires Antithesis. Lightness shines in opposition to darkness.

    And orthodoxy is usually defined in reaction to heresy. Think of the how the ancient creeds came about.

    From what I know and what I've read from sources I believe to be credible, CI is at-bottom a mix of Anglo-Israelism and dual/serpent-seed doctrine. In my opinion, the former is silly and ultimately just a distraction, but the latter takes one outside the pale of historic, Christian orthodoxy.

    Now critics of nationalism reject this interpretation of CI in the same way I think that postmodernist/leftist critics of Christianity today in general continue to view it as a bigoted ideology of exclusion and intolerance. So I don't ask you to close your eyes to this aspect of CI. I'd just suggest you need to view it through the same filters as you do regular Christianity and life in general to be fair. Attitudes whose prejudicial lack of we are still prone to pick up from today's culture, even as we here struggle so hard against it.

    These are good points and I understand your position. Even my own Missouri Synod gets hammered from every side imaginable in the cultural and religious wars.

    I agree there are excesses and failures in CI, as in any Christian group, and in its particular position what one might expect. Overall though I'd say as a patriot Christian honest acknowledment of its and their limitations should not cause me to abandon or turn my back on them. They are your brothers and mine.

    Amen. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't even jump in to this hornets nest if I didn't care for my brothers and potential doctrinal error. I consider these things very seriously. Politics, culture and even societies come and go, but the Word of God will stand throughout eternity. Bottom line, test everything in the light of the Holy Scriptures, the final authority for all belief, doctrine and religion.


    Blond Knight

    2005-01-08 02:20 | User Profile

    An interesting thread.

    Some interesting information is contained in the books writen by Richard Kelly Hoskins. He wrote on several subjects from a CI perspective, but the information he presents should be appreciated by all persons concerned about what is happening in the world today, and how we got in the mess we are in.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Hoskins' books:[url]http://richardhoskins.com/bklist.htm[/url]

    Excerpt from "Our Nordic Race":

    Our Nordic Race Chapters one-six

    The Nordic - Sect.I

    The Nordic - ch.1

    We are Nordics - from the North! Norway, Denmark, Northern Germany and Sweden. It was from this small section of northern Europe that our race came in successive waves which poured over distant mountains and valleys, seas and oceans. Today the remnant may be found in colonies, large and small, in the most distant parts of the globe.

    We of Virginia pride ourselves on our Anglo-Saxon ancestry. Anglo - from the Angles of Denmark, Saxon - from old Saxony in Germany. Anglo-Saxons are a combination of two subtribes that includes in its Nordic race Norsemen or Vikings, Swabians, Franks, Goths, Vandals, Rus, and many others all calling themselves by different tribal names, but all belonging to the same Nordic race with the same original homeland and ancestors.

    Racially there is no difference between an American or Englishman of Anglo-Saxon stock, and a Dane or German of Anglo-Saxon-Swabian stock, a Scot or Irishman of Viking-Celtic-Norman- Saxon stock, and a Swede, South African, or Australian of similarly varied Nordic stock. If it were not for our languages it would be impossible to distinguish between us merely by our looks, simply because as members of one racial family we are alike. Black hair - brown eyes, blond hair - gray eyes, but mostly sandy hair and blue eyes, and compared with other races, tall. Our skin color and facial features are typically our own and cannot be confused with other races.

    Whatever the nationality of our ancestors we are all kinsmen belonging to the same Nordic race.

    Our History - ch.2

    The history of our race is an epic story which should thrill the hearts of our youth who will in turn strive toward further greatness.

    Unfortunately, in many of our institutions of learning more emphasis is placed on what was done than on who did it. According to many present-day histories, Darwin was an Englishman, Leonardo Da Vinci an Italian, Thomas Jefferson an American, Frederick the Great a Prussian, Julius Caesar a Roman, and Alexander the Great a Greek. These historical tidbits are true but they are not the whole truth. Individually each of these examples, while interesting, is comparatively trivial when compared with the overpowering greater truth - that these heroes of the past were racial kinsmen, products of the same race. In their veins flowed the very same blood which flows in our veins today, the blood of the Nordic.

    The Birth of Nordic Nations - ch.3

    At a very early date the first of our Nordic kinsmen swept out of the North down into the Greek peninsula, the Italian peninsula, and into Asia Minor. Killing or driving out the original inhabitants of these lands, they settled and founded the Persian Empire, the Grecian Empire, and the Roman Empire.

    These great Empires which our Nordic peoples founded, while impressive, were important only to the extent to which they helped protect the heart of the nations where children could be born and reared, and provided an atmosphere in which the greatest treasure of our race could be brought into practical being.

    This treasure, so obvious that it is often overlooked, is nothing more than the simple everyday "idea" or original thought.

    With a chance to put their ideas into effect our kinsmen built ships, canals, irrigation ditches, temples, monuments, and aqueducts. They conceived religions of the most advanced sort, medicine and surgery, astronomy, navigation, and a host of other professions, ideas, methods, and things.

    It has been suggested that if a group of Nordics were placed almost anywhere, in complete isolation, in a few generations they would produce a thriving civilization.

    Thus it was that our Nordic cousins poured over the mountains of northern India, conquered the nation and created the great Indian culture. The same is true of Spain, France, Germany, England, America, Australia and South Africa. In fact, wherever they have gone, ideas, progress and achievements have been their handmaiden.

    But there is a note of tragedy in this great story of our race, and it follows a constant pattern. Why is it that Sweden, England and Germany, nations with limited natural resources, can have a progressive, active culture after more than 2,000 years, and such mighty nations as Rome, Greece, Persia, India, Portugal and Spain produce for a few centuries - and fall . . . fall never to rise again under their own efforts?

    Some historians blame this on politics, morals, lawlessness, cycle, debt, and a host of other reasons. England, Germany and Sweden have gone through each of these crises scores of times without allowing their countries and cultures to fall into disuse and decay.

    To blame the fall of Rome and Greece on their morals, debt or decay, is very like blaming a plow horse for not winning the Kentucky Derby because of the lack of oats, too little exercise, or poor environment. These arguments may have merit, but the fact must be faced that a plow horse has never, can never, and will never win the Kentucky Derby, simply because he is a plow horse.

    A Man O' War, if bred to a plow horse, is not likely to produce another Man o' War. The chances are further diminished as each successive generation is bred to other plow horses. Rome and Greece ran their first races as a Man o' War, their last as plow horses. The men who followed the Roman Eagles and served in the Grecian Phalanxes from the birth to Golden Ages of these nations were a different breed - indeed, a different race - from those who ran before their foes in the declining years of these nations. They were no longer Nordics. We are blood kin to the creators of Rome and Greece but not to the breeds that fed on the remains of these nations and fell with them.

    How did this happen? It all follows a constant pattern with a few minor differences.

    The Ancient World - Sect.II Greece - ch.4

    Alexander the Great destroyed Greece. With all of his conquests and glory, he did more to destroy Greece than any man or group of men of his time.

    Somehow, probably from one of his teachers, Alexander became fascinated with the illusion that all that was needed to create a paradise on earth was for all non-Greeks to assimilate the Nordic Grecian culture. Putting theories into action, he built temples and centers of learning in the lands of the nations he conquered. He sent hundreds of these conquered half-caste people back to Greece to be trained as teachers and thousands more as slaves.

    In a few years jackals roamed in the ruins of these far flung temples, and the thousands of mixed-blood slaves became free and married into the native stock of Greece, changing it from Nordic into something else. In spite of his good intentions Alexander betrayed and destroyed his nation and his race. What the Persian armies and others could not do, he did. It would seem that a man of his high intelligence and training would have known that there has never been a Nordic culture which has outlived its creators. Perhaps it may linger on for two or three generations, or even five or six generations, but the day always comes when weeds grow on the ruins, and half- breed peoples pass by and cast uninterested eyes upon the beautifully sculptured column which is a monument to the vanished Nordic.

    Rome - ch.5

    No army destroyed Nordic Rome. Nordic Rome destroyed herself before the first enemy entered her gates.

    Nordic Rome conquered the world, and in doing so brought the world to Rome - as slaves. Half-breed Greeks, half-breed Egyptians, Asiatics, some Franks, and many Negroes from the slave trading nation of Egypt - all these were added to the population of Rome. Rome became the great melting pot of the world. Efforts were made in both Rome and Greece to keep our Nordic stock pure, but these efforts were to no avail when pitted against the desire to accumulate cheap slave labor. As no Nordic-culture survives its creators, Rome fell - as had been foreseen by her own historians and philosophers. It is from these and other examples that we arrive at a law of genetics which is as true today as it was 5,000 years ago, and as it will be 5,000 years from now.

    When a race which produces original thought breeds with a race which produces little or no original thought, the resulting breed is a failure.

    The resulting breeds who fell heir to Greece and Rome were comparative failures. Our Nordic race in these nations was betrayed and destroyed by their own Nordic countrymen who, for selfish purposes, became Race Traitors.

    Herman - ch.6

    (16 B.C. - 21 A.D.) During the days of the Roman Empire it was the standard policy of Rome to recruit soldiers in one part of the empire and send them to garrison outposts in other parts of the empire. Rome was planning the conquest of Germany, which probably meant that Asiatic or African soldiers would be sent to garrison these lands when they were conquered. This news was not well received by Nordic soldiers in the Roman service. One of them, an officer named Herman, determined to do everything he could to prevent it. Using the cloak of official business to travel extensively beyond the Rhine, he aroused the scattered German peoples who formed a confederation to fight the coming invasion.

    At last, preparations for the invasion were complete and the crack Roman divisions wound their way across the Rhine into the forests of Germany.

    It was in the Teutoberg Forest that Herman and his warriors waited. They knew that the powerful Roman army which wound its way through the forest was less able to defend itself while on the march than at any other time. And, too, in the thickets of the woods the superior fighting ability of the individual Nordic warrior could be used to the best advantage.

    When the Romans reached the desired position, Herman had the trumpet sounded - a call which was immediately drowned by the clash of battle axes and swords on shields. The most important battle in the history of our race was on.

    Three days later it was over. The Roman divisions were completely annihilated. Caesar wept when he heard the news. The Nordic world rejoiced. If the Roman conquest had been successful, and Asiatic and African troops had been sent to garrison the northern lands, it would only have been a matter of time until our enslaved race would have followed the Roman conquerors into the whirlpool of miscegenation. We owe our existence today to Herman and his brave men who fought in the depths of the Teutoberg Forest nineteen centuries ago.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-08 02:29 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Texas Dissident]Here's another article on CI from the Christian Research Institute (the late Walter Martin's organization): [url]http://www.equip.org/free/DI100.htm[/url]

    Another interesting article, slightly less shrill PC in tone.

    Again though, some of the cultural/social/political views of the author come from a rather PC mainstream perspective, but hopefully you can see some common theological themes.

    I see the themes, but what for me makes it hard to accept their reasoning when coming through you is their [I]a priori[/I]asumption that the chief problem with CI is its anti-semitism, not its faulty biblical exegesis of Gen Chapters 1-3-11.

    As this article points out, CI teachers do differ widely on the interpretation of Gen 1-3-11, (as do, BTW non CI orthodox teachers, let alone modernist ones). What makes them all the same to these people is their end conclusion, which we practically have pretty much come to agree on - the "jewish question" is a valid one, which must be dealt with.

    After all a lot of these writers themselves do not take Gen 1-11 athoritatively anyway, interpreting it liberally to suit their own conclusions. They aren't objecting to the liberal process at all, just the anti-semitic conclusions. When one agrees with them in a limited matter one also needs to acknowledge this for perspective.

    Arguably, there are a fair number of obscure lineage related declarations and curses in Gen 1-11. It is not unprecendented in biblical history to use them, just to obsess with them. There some judgements of the groups and teacher's nature and maturity are called into play.

    This is a very thoughtful post Okie and I thank you for it. More often than not and especially on-line, whenever terms like orthodoxy and heresy start getting bandied about the discussion quickly descends into bitter polemics. Issues quickly get cloudy and bogged down and we lose sight of the real people that are making the arguments, asking questions, etc. in the first place. I know I'm as guilty as anybody. Couple that with limited time and, well, sometimes I wonder if these internet forums do more harm than good. I hope you don't think I'm attacking, ridiculing or berating anything here because I don't mean to come off that way. That's a comon criticism of religious debates in general today, which is perhaps why they've gone out of style. But you've always been scrupulous and meticulous in your judgements. One also needs to be frank, as you note as we have limited amounts of time.

    And orthodoxy is usually defined in reaction to heresy. Think of the how the ancient creeds came about.

    From what I know and what I've read from sources I believe to be credible, CI is at-bottom a mix of Anglo-Israelism and dual/serpent-seed doctrine. In my opinion, the former is silly and ultimately just a distraction, but the latter takes one outside the pale of historic, Christian orthodoxy.

    True, but todays religious process, with regard to history, has no trump card over CI. It's methods largely are as heretical as CI's themselves. That's why they always sort of quickly jump to exegesis parts to the conclusions - CI is [I]per se[/I] bad because it is anti-semitic, whatever the original process of the exegesis was.

    To a certain extent I suspect CI's hardline nature reflects a certain mirror image liberalism in response. The religious world develops methods to twist scriptures to "prove" God is a multiculturalist one-worlder. If CI has developed in a liberal fashion some mirror images anti-multicultural doctrines, that may just reflect its theological limitations, but I think you do need to acknowledge some of their good patriotic instincts.

    These are good points and I understand your position. Even my own Missouri Synod gets hammered from every side imaginable in the cultural and religious wars.

    Amen. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't even jump in to this hornets nest if I didn't care for my brothers and potential doctrinal error. I consider these things very seriously. Politics, culture and even societies come and go, but the Word of God will stand throughout eternity. Bottom line, test everything in the light of the Holy Scriptures, the final authority for all belief, doctrine and religion.[/QUOTE]True. To be theologically credible, ones theology must be more than good politics. Right-wingers in a sense are subjected to a stricter standard here than mainstreamers, but we must just learn to accept it.

    That is the lesson of MacDonald after all. To be really of use in a hostile environment, a groups ideology and theology must go overboard to be meticulously reasonable and credible today.

    That's obviously where today's CI has its limitations. It may serve as a place where people with a political bias to that effect can study scriptures and know more about the Lord in a way, albeit perhaps in a limited fashion. But it is limited here because of its pecularities. And regarding America as a whole, one isn't certainly isn't likely to be drawn into the movement, changing ones world-view dramatically by studying CI doctrine, they way people are by say studying MacDonald. It just seems too limited, even in its best expositions.

    But I do have to admire their dedication in a way when you get to know them. I don't think they're just being opportunists. In today's post-Christian world they could have gone with a number of more flashy ideological paradigms to articulate their national instincts. Sticking with a Christian one, even an obviously imperfect one especially from our view, requires a certain amount of dedication I think on the part of some of them. As you note above, one needs to acknowlege this and their real life efforts, even if by some perspectives including ours there is still a pretty big gap between where they have gone and historic orthodox Christianity if you take a detailed look at their theology.


    Blond Knight

    2005-01-08 02:49 | User Profile

    Near the bottom of the following article Hoskins expounds on some of his CI doctrines:

    Saxon Identity: [url]http://richardhoskins.com/2_hr0197.htm[/url]


    Blond Knight

    2005-01-08 03:09 | User Profile

    [url]http://richardhoskins.com/333hr.htm[/url]

    Liberal's Reward "Sir Garfield Todd, former Prime Minister of Rhodesia and long- time loyal supporter of Robert Mugabe - and one of the few Whites the dictator recognized as having been a champion of the `liberation' struggle - has been deprived of his Zimbabwe citizenship.

    "Earlier, a disillusioned Todd, 93, had attacked Mugabe's seizure of White farms. ... In early February Todd received a registered letter from the home affairs ministry advising that he had ceased to be a Zimbabwe citizen. ...

    "Todd now says: `I am horrified by the destruction of our economy, the starving of our people, the undermining of our constitution, the torture and humiliation of our nation by Zanu- PF.'" Aida Parker Newsletter, PO Box 91059, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa, Annual sub airmail U.S. $80.

    RKH: Brainwashed liberals are sick people. They are shocked into reality only when looking into the gun barrel of an hereditary enemy whom they selflessly tried to help. Until then, they blindly step over the bodies of their own kinsmen vainly attempting to build the forbidden Tower of Babel


    Blond Knight

    2005-01-08 03:37 | User Profile

    [url]http://richardhoskins.com/332hr.htm[/url]

    Solving The Perception Problem It is difficult to promote the integration needed to develop mixed-race Cartel subjects when Saxons perceive aliens as being either criminals or potential criminals.

    This problem was solved when the Cartel instructed its media to stop reporting the criminal's race. When the criminal's race is unknown - the criminal is whomever the media says it is. One day, all across the Saxon world, newspapers stopped reporting that most criminals were aliens.

    Today, if 100 crimes are committed and 97 are committed by aliens and three by Saxons - the Saxon's crime is reported and lawlessness by aliens is ignored.

    This media censorship tends to mold opinion to believe that Saxons commit most violent crimes and those crimes are "hate" crimes. I have never seen a written Cartel document confirming this policy, but I know the policy exists. "Policy" is unofficial - an agreement less visible - but no less binding.


    Okiereddust

    2005-01-08 05:27 | User Profile

    [QUOTE=Blond Knight]Near the bottom of the following article Hoskins expounds on some of his CI doctrines:

    Saxon Identity: [url]http://richardhoskins.com/2_hr0197.htm[/url][/QUOTE[QUOTE]