Christian Identity

A racial extremist movement based on the conviction that the white race is the "seed of Adam" and the biblical Israel that God has chosen.

Possible origins in British Israelite religious movement in 18th Century Britain.
Related organizations in 20th Century: Ku Klux Klan, National Socialism (Germany), Aryan Christology, Church of Jesus Christ Christian, Christian Nationalist Crusade

Beliefs

Core commitments (adapted from Jerome Walters, One Aryan Nation Under God: How Religious Expremists Use the Bible to Justify Their Actions, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2001): 11.
  1. The different races have their origins in separate creations by God.
  2. People of color were created before Adam and Eve, are less endowed spiritually, and do not share in redemption.
  3. Adam and Eve were the first white people created by God, were endowed with exceptional spiritual capacities, and were specially chosen by God; white descendants of Adam and Eve share these same capacities and election.
  4. Present-day Jews are descendants of Satan and Eve and are fundamentally opposed to God and God's purposes.
  5. Race mixing was the original sin in the Garden of Eden and the source of the white race's woes outside the garden, which led to the Flood -- and the current need for racial separation.

Tribe of Dan

An offshoot of Christian Identity.

SOURCE:
Jerome Walters, One Aryan Nation under God: How Religious Extremists Use the Bible to Justify Their Actions, Naperville, Ill.:Sourcebooks, Inc., 2001.
(created 17 December 2002)
(last updated 17 December 2002)