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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Paranoia
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 23:39:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 23:39:51 1985
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Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
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Summary: 

Let's identify this Identity Christianity stuff for what it is.  (As a
descendant of one of the founders of the KKK I guess I get to post this.)
From Newsweek; March 4 1985 --

	"The undergirding of Butler's [Richard G. Butler, pastor of the
Aryan Nations] teaching is Identity theology, a movement founded in
1946 by Ku Klux Klan organizer Wesley Swift.  Its doctrines argue that
Jesus Christ was an Aryan, not a Jew, that the lost tribes of Israel
were the Anglo-Saxon and other Aryan races, that the United States is
therefore the Promised Land, and that Jews should be destroyed as the
children of Satan.  'Identity recognizes that now we're Israel.  We
don't have to play pansy with Jews over here,' explains Robb.  Swift,
who died in 1970, prophesied in the early '50s that soon 'there will
not be a Jew in the United States -- and by that I mean a Jew that will
be able to walk or talk.'

	"Identity attracts a strange mix of apostles and many
variations on its theme.  William Potter Gale, a former colonel who
served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Phillipines, preaches from
his Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif.  In one taped sermon
he said, 'Damn right I'm teaching violence!  God said you're gonna do
it that way.  It's about time somebody is telling you to get violent,
whitey.  You better start making dossiers, names, addresses, phone
numbers, car license numbers on every damn Jew rabbi in this land.'
Yet Gale deplores Butler's 'Nazi approach.'  On the other hand Keith
Gilbert found Butler not Nazi enough.  Gilbert, who served five years
in San Quentin for a plot to explode 1,400 pounds of dynamite diring a
speech by Martin Luther King Jr. to B'nai B'rith, started his Restored
Church of Jesus Christ in Post Falls, Idaho.  He preaches that Hitler
was the reincarnation of the prophet Elijah, that 'Mein Kampf' belongs
in the Biblical Canon and that May 1 of this year -- the 40th
anniversary of the announcement of Hitler's death -- will begin 'the
terrible day of destruction.'
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I do not imply that Mr. Black believes all of the above.  I would like
to know just how many of these poople Mr. Black does "keep faith" with.

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						Byron C. Howes
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