Doomsday cults emerge from such dynamics and believe they must take offensive action to bring about the end of the world.
Black Hebrew Israelism is a form of black supremacy. Its origins trace back to the Civil War and were relatively peaceful. Recently, Ben Ami
Ben Israel, also known as Ben Carter, had a vision in Chicago telling him that African- Americans were the true Jews of old and the people who call themselves Jews are impostures. Whites are evil incarnate, descended from the devil. Bodrero (1999) says the most violent aspect of this movement formed in the Miami- based Nation of Yahweh.
My own research (White, 2001) summarizes white supremacy theology.
Christian Identity is a theology that grew from a nineteenth century concept known as Anglo-Israelism. Its basic tenant is that the ancient tribes of Israel were Caucasians who migrated to Europe shortly after the death of Jesus. Whites are actually the descendants of the chosen tribes of Israel, and whites are asked to identify with the Israelites of old.
Christian Identity is strongly anti-Semitic, claiming that humans originated from two seed lines. Whites are directly descended from God, while
Jews originated from an illicit sexual union between the devil and the first white woman. Nonwhite races evolved from animals and are categorized as subhumans. Identity Christians believe that biblical covenants apply only to the white race and that Jesus of Nazareth was not a Jew,
but the white Israelite son of God. Christian Identity views are championed by Aryan Nations, a variety of prominent Christian Identity !
pas- tors, Posse Comitatus, and the American Institute of Theology.
Nordic Christianity or Odinism is a hybrid form of Christianity and old
Norse religions. It exists in two forms. Nordic Christianity combines a pan- theon of Nordic gods under the triune deity of Christianity. Odin,
Thor, and other Nordic gods serve Christ by militantly protecting the white Norse race. Pure Odinism, however, ignores Christian concepts.
Enjoying a rebirth in nineteenth century Germany, Odinism simply involves the resurrection of old Nordic myths and worship of the Nordic pantheon. It migrated to the United States through the neo-Nazi movement. Both forms of Nordic religion call for the militant defense of race.
bloodlines. And homeland.
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PART I THE CRIMINOLOGY OF TERRORISM
Another form of militant right-wing Christianity can simply be called
Freewheeling Fundamentalism. This form of religion rejects both the blatant racism of Christian Identity and the hybrid nature of Nordic religions....
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