White supremacist, Christian Identity theorist and Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale was California " state chairman of the Constitution Party " in 1957.

Christian Identity is another movement closely tied to white supremacy.

Aside from this, its ideology is similar to many Christian Identity groups, in their belief that there is a Jewish conspiracy in control of governments, the banking industry and the media.

Rice suspected the family of being Jewish and Communist and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.

Richard Girnt Butler founded the group in the 1970s, as an arm of the Christian Identity organization Church of Jesus Christ – Christian.

The origin of Aryan Nations is in the teachings of Wesley Swift, a significant figure in the early Christian Identity movement.

Category: Christian Identity

This was distinct from the Christian Identity movement and other forms of ultra-conservative Christianity practiced by the various Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, and other far-right groups.

A few modern-day groups claim descent from the tribe of Simeon, with varying levels of academic and rabbinical support ; some Christian Identity followers believe themselves to be descendants of the tribe.

* Phineas Priesthood, a Christian Identity movement

A more racialized form of British Israelism, which promotes antisemitism, emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and is sometimes called Christian Identity.

Christian Identity teaches that Jews do not descend from Judah ( as British Israelites maintain ) but from Satan.

Another key teaching of Christian Identity is that non-Caucasian people do not have a soul and therefore cannot be saved.

In the United States in the 2000s, the term racialism has been employed by white separatist groups such as Christian Identity, Aryan Nations, the American Nazi Party, and White Aryan Resistance, though it has also been used by more innocuous groups and individuals.

Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a white supremacist theology.

According to Chester L. Quarles, professor of criminal justice at the University of Mississippi, some of the Christian Identity movement's followers hold that non-Caucasian peoples have no souls, and can therefore never earn God's favor or be saved.

In many variations of Christian Identity thought, a key commonality is British Israelism, which teaches that many white Europeans are the literal descendants of the Israelites through the ten tribes which were taken away into captivity by the armies of Assyria.

The Christian Identity movement first received widespread attention by mainstream media in 1984, when the white nationalist organization known as The Order embarked on a murderous crime spree before being taken down by the FBI.

Tax resister and militia movement organizer Gordon Kahl, whose death in a 1983 shootout with authorities helped inspire The Order, also had connections to the Christian Identity movement.

The movement returned to public attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the deadly Ruby Ridge confrontation, when newspapers discovered that former Green Beret and right-wing separatist Randy Weaver had at least a loose association with Christian Identity believers.

Christian Identity supporters believe in the Second Coming and Armageddon.

Christian Identity is a major unifying theology for a number of diverse groups of white nationalist Christians.

Herbert W. Armstrong is inaccurately described by some of his critics, as well as by supporters of Christian Identity, as having supported Christian Identity, due to his belief in a modified form of British Israelism, and the fact that during his lifetime, he propounded observances favoured by many Christian Identity groups, such as seventh-day Sabbatarianism and biblical festivals.

He further asserts that although Gauss firmly believed in the immortality of the soul and in some sort of life after death, it was not in a fashion that could be interpreted as Christian.

The countercult movement asserts that non-fundamental Christian sects whose beliefs are partially or wholly not in accordance with the Bible are erroneous.

The Belgic Confession, used in Reformed churches, devotes a section ( Article 6 ) to " The difference between the canonical and apocryphal books " and asserts that " All which the Church may read and take instruction from, so far as they agree with the canonical books ; but they are far from having such power and efficacy as that we may from their testimony confirm any point of faith or of the Christian religion ; much less to detract from the authority of the other sacred books.

Sociologist of religion Tex Sample asserts that it is a mistake to refer to a Muslim, Jewish, or Christian Fundamentalist.

Standard Muslim teaching asserts that the Injil, the prophetic Gospel delivered through the prophet Isa ( Jesus of Nazareth ), has been irretrievably corrupted and distorted in the course of Christian transmission.

It has a barbaric and oriental magnificence that asserts itself with a happy power and authenticity too often absent from visionary poems set within the Christian tradition.

" Through media advertisements, production and distribution of literature, producing music and organizing person-to-person evangelism, the organization asserts that " a specifically Jewish mission " is necessary, saying, " Jewish people tend to dismiss evangelistic methods and materials that are couched in Christian lingo, because they reinforce the assumption that Jesus is for ' them ' not ' us '.

Messianic Judaism asserts that Jesus is the Word of God become manifest ( John 1: 1 ; 14 ), a belief that is identical with normative Christian doctrine regarding the nature and identity of the son of God.

* Virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian doctrine that asserts that Jesus Christ was born to a virgin, and thus that his conception was carried out without an earthly father.

After Rudolph's arrest for the bombings, The Washington Post reported that the FBI considered Rudolph to have " had a long association with the radical Christian Identity movement, which asserts that Northern European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God's chosen people.

Augustinism, one of the chief Christian schools of thought associated most often with Roman Catholicism and Calvinist Protestantism, strongly asserts the impassibility of God, as well as his impeccability.

" This is the basis for Christian readings of Old Testament prophecy, which asserts that passages are to be read as allusions to future events.

Prior to the middle of this century, he asserts, the population of Al-Andalus was still half Christian.

Christian tradition asserts that Nicodemus was martyred sometime in the first century.

After a short account of the incidents preceding the conversion of the king, and of his conversations with a philosopher, a Christian, and a Muslim concerning their respective beliefs, a Jew appears on the stage, and by his first statement startles the king ; for, instead of giving him proofs of the existence of God, he asserts and explains the miracles performed by Him in favor of the Israelites.

Christian Identity is a loosely affiliated global group of churches and individuals devoted to a racialized theology that asserts that North European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God's chosen people.

It was the natural consequence of Martin Luther ’ s sola scriptura doctrine, which asserts that Scripture is the highest authority, and that it can be relied on alone in all things pertaining to salvation and the Christian life.

The Augsburg Confession has singular importance as the unanimous consensus and exposition of our Christian faith, particularly against the false worship, idolatry, and superstition of the papacy and against other sects, and as the symbol of our time, the first and unaltered Augsburg Confession, which was delivered to Emperor Charles V at Augsburg during the great Diet in the year 1530 ... A recent book on Lutheranism asserts, " To this day ... the Augsburg Confession ... remains the basic definition of what it means to be a ' Lutheran.

During her conversation with Verlaine, Isabelle Rimbaud asserts that her brother had accepted confession from a priest right before he died, showing Christian penitence, which is why only the censored versions of his poetry should survive.

Predestination asserts that a supremely powerful being has, in advance, fixed all events and outcomes in the universe ; it is a famous doctrine of the Calvinists in Christian theology.

Lutheran apologist Ted Peters ( 2003 ) asserts that the questions raised by the possibility of extraterrestrial life are by no means new to Christian theology and by no means pose, as asserted by other authors, a threat for Christian dogma.

Traditional Christian theology asserts that it is through the work of the Holy Spirit within the individual that God the Father is able to communicate to them via the words of the Bible.

Theonomic ethics asserts that the Bible has been given as the abiding standard for all human government — individual, family, church, and civil ; and that Biblical Law must be incorporated into a Christian theory of Biblical ethics.