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To: gore3000
"The above is a malicious slander on Christians which you in no way can back up." -- Gore3000

Here is a quotation from a book on the subject. Feel free to examine the book and check out the author's original sources. Judicial Watch also has information on this movement if you are interested. It calls itself the Christian Identity Movement.

"This system of beliefs is called Christian Identity, and adherence to it is probably the single greatest common denominator among all the various fragmented factions of the radical right wing in America. It is practiced by the neo-Nazis of the Aryan Nations, by the leaders of the Militia of Montana, and by remnants of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.

Its foremost preacher is the Reverend Pete Peters, a Colorado-based minister whose 1992 gathering in Estes Park - drawing such luminaries as John Trochmann, Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam, and onetime Pat Buchanan adviser Larry Pratt - is often credited with being the chief formative event behind the militia movement.

The core beliefs of Christian Identity are so far astray from those of mainstream Christianity - and so repellent to average Americans - that they induce in the religion's followers a cult-like closed mindset: a sense of persecution coupled with self-righteousness that is supported by the group's social peers. True believers - often drawn from the ranks of the disenfranchised - will not be dissuaded by any amount of logic and reason.

They live in a kind of alternative universe, complex and wholly unlike anything in mainstream life. It is populated by soulless non-humans, satanic conspirators and a handful of true Christians who abide by ''God's law.'' By closing off the other world, they reinforce each other's beliefs in the confines of their tight social circle."

The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest, by David A. Neiwert, Washington State University Press, 1999, pages 11-12

214 posted on 03/11/2002 5:28:14 AM PST by Vercingetorix
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To: Vercingetorix
Your article says:

The core beliefs of Christian Identity are so far astray from those of mainstream Christianity

Seems you are attacking Christianity by using as an example of the terrors of Christianity a group which Christians abhor. As I said, your post was totally slanderous of Christians, and now, in the words of your own "proof" you have shown me to be correct.

247 posted on 03/11/2002 4:34:59 PM PST by gore3000
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