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How the SPLC Targets Catholics and Other Christians
The American Spectator ^ | October 4, 2025, 10:16 PM | S.A. McCarthy

Posted on 10/05/2025 10:59:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The SPLC does not prevent hate but directs it, mostly toward Christians for promoting the teachings of Christ.

Under President Donald Trump, the FBI recently made the decision to sever ties with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-described anti-hate group that has long placed mainstream conservative and Christian organizations and institutions on a par with groups like the Ku Klux Klan. “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence,” he added, referring to a 2012 attack on Family Research Council’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”

[T]he SPLC’s “hate group” designation inspired a domestic terror attack against the Family Research Council in 2012.

The FBI’s decision is a welcome one, particularly as the SPLC has long targeted American Catholics and other Christians. The SPLC’s “Hate Map” currently lists 1,371 supposed hate groups across the country. Under the ideologies it considers hateful, the SPLC lists “Christian Identity,” “Christian Supremacy,” and “Radical Traditional Catholicism.”

The SPLC defines “Christian Identity” as “an antisemitic, racist theology that gained a foothold during the Civil Rights Era and reached a prominent position within the racist right by the 1980s.” According to the SPLC, “Christian Identity” has managed to “exert influence among more mainstream Christian nationalist … circles.” The “anti-hate” group observed, “As the Christian nationalist movement grows, it increasingly reflects CID-inspired themes, even if many followers may be unaware of their origins in one of the most racist and antisemitic interpretations of Scripture.”

“Christian Supremacy” is defined as “the idea that Christians have the God-given right or duty to rule, govern, and...”

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1 posted on 10/05/2025 10:59:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Southern poverty law center? More like the Wealthy Jewish Southern culture hating lying center. Hell, they even put focus on the family as a hate group!


2 posted on 10/05/2025 11:04:19 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: DesertRhino

The Minutemen were Big Targets in 2005.
Fun Times!


3 posted on 10/05/2025 11:21:25 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"'Christian Supremacy' is defined as “the idea that Christians have the God-given right or duty to rule, govern, and control society, culture, and politics.'”

Muslims also believe they have that right. Jews claim to be the chosen people of God. LGBTQ+ people claim to have the right to run everything. Leftists claim the right to run everything.
4 posted on 10/05/2025 11:31:19 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I went to the SPLC site and checked their roundup of 2024 activities. They classified Turning Point USA as a “far-right” extremist group. In a section called “The demonization of the United States,” ALL of the threats were described as coming from the RIGHT. The left’s constant demonization of the US: its history, traditions, culture, Constitution, and institutions is TOTALLY IGNORED. The SPLC is a colossal joke, a fraud, and - yes - a hate group.


5 posted on 10/05/2025 11:41:54 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank God for Trump.


6 posted on 10/05/2025 11:49:42 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The SPLC was formed to scam money from gullible donors and keep the man’s dick that formed the organization wet.


7 posted on 10/05/2025 11:52:10 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tis true. SPLC should be ruled a terrorist organization because it incites chaos.


8 posted on 10/05/2025 1:37:21 PM PDT by gildafarrell ("No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.")
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