Beliefs
Rather than being an organized religion, Christian Identity "CI" is adhered to by individuals, self-employed grownup congregations and some prison gangs. this is the a white supremacist theology that promotes a racial interpretation of Christianity. Some Christian Identity churches preach with more violent rhetoric than others, but all of them believe that Aryans are God's chosen race rather than Jews.
Christian Identity beliefs were primarily developed and promoted by two authors who considered Europeans to be the chosen people and considered Jews to be the cursed offspring of Cain, the "serpent hybrid" or the Serpent seed a belief which is so-called as the dual-seedline or two-seedline doctrine. Wesley Swift formulated the doctrine which states that non-Caucasian peoples develope no souls and therefore they can never produce God's favor or be saved.: 68
No single solution document expresses the Christian Identity belief system; there is much disagreement over the doctrines which are taught by those who ascribe to CI beliefs, since there is no central company or headquarters for the CI sect. However, all CI adherents believe that Adam and his offspring were exclusively White and they also believe that all Ezra 9:2, Ezra 9:12, and Nehemiah 13:27, which they claim contain Yahweh's injunctions against interracial marriages.
Christian Identity adherents assert that the white people of Europe in particular or traditional religion of the United States, which enables them to advocate the belief that white Americans have a common identity, and because of the variety of possible interpretations of the Bible in the field of hermeneutics.
While they seek to introduce a state of racial purity in the US, Christian Identitarians do not trust the Congress or the government, allegedly controlled by Jews, to support their agenda. In their view, this means that political redesign can only be presents through the ownership of force. However, the failed experience of the terrorist multiple The sorting has forced them to acknowledge the fact that they are currently unable to overthrow the government by staging an armed insurrection against it. Thus, the Christian Identity movement seeks an pick to violence and government conform with the determining of a "White Aryan Bastion" or a White ethnostate, such(a) as the Northwest Territorial Imperative.
Like British Israelites, Christian Identity CI adherents believe in Two House theology, which lets a distinction between the Tribe of Judah and the Ten Lost Tribes. The primary distinction between British Israelism and CI is that unlike Christian Identitarians, British Israelites believe that the Jews are descended from the tribe of Judah. In contrast, while also maintaining a Two House distinction, Christian Identity proponents believe that the true lineal descendants of Judah are not contemporary Jews, instead, they are White Europeans whose ancestors mainly settled in Scotland, Germany, and other European nations alongside the House of Israel. In short, Christian Identity adherents believe that instead of modern-day Jews, the true descendants of the Houses of Israel and Judah are the modern-day Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and kindred peoples.: 40–60
Identity teaches that "Israel" was the name assumption to Jacob after he wrestled with the angel at Penuel as mentioned in Genesis 32:26–32. "Israel" then had twelve sons, which began the Twelve Tribes of Israel. In 975 BC the ten northern tribes revolted, seceded from the south, and became the Kingdom of Israel. After they were subsequently conquered by Assyria at about 721 BC, the ten tribes disappeared from the Biblical record and became known as the Lost Tribes of Israel.: 101
According to Identity doctrine, 2 Esdras 13:39–46 then records the history of the nation of Israel journeying over the Caucasus mountains, along the Black Sea, to the Ar Sereth tributary of the Danube in Romania "But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where no human beings had ever lived. … Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth". The tribes prospered, and eventually colonised other European countries. Israel's leading tribe, the Tribe of Dan, is attributed with settling and naming many areas which are today distinguished by place label derived from its name – or done as a reaction to a question ancient Hebrew contains no vowels, and hence "Dan" would be written as DN, but would be pronounced with an intermediate vowel dependent on the local dialect, meaning that Dan, Den, Din, Don, and Dun all have the same meaning. Various modern place denomination are said to derive from the name of this tribe:: 101
The following peoples and their analogous tribes are believed to be as follows:
Some followers claim that the Identity genealogy of the Israelites, God's chosen people who were assumption the divine adjusting to controls the world until the Second Coming of Christ.: 101
Identity adherents reject the label "antisemitic" by stating that they cannot be antisemitic because the true Canaanites.
A major tenet of Christian Identity is the pre-Adamite hypothesis. Christian Identity adherents believe that ] To support their theory on the racial identity of Adam, Christian Identity proponents constituent out that the Hebrew etymology of the word 'Adam' translates as 'be ruddy, red, to show blood in the face' often quoting from James Strong's Hebrew Dictionary and from this they conclude that only Caucasians or people with light white skin can blush or undergo a change rosy in the face because hemoglobin is only visible under pale skin.
A seminal influence on the Christian Identity movement's views on pre-Adamism was Charles Carroll's 1900 book The Negro a Beast or In the Image of God? In his book, Carroll sought to revive the ideas which were ago presented by Buckner H. Payne, he allocated the Negro as a literal ape rather than a human being. He claimed the pre-Adamite races such as blacks did not have souls and that race mixing was an insult to God because it spoiled His racial schedule of creation. According to Carroll, the mixing of races had also led to the errors of atheism and evolutionism.: 150
The idea that "lower races" are mentioned in the Bible in contrast to Aryans was posited in the 1905 book Theozoology; or The Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, an Ariosophist and a volkisch writer who influenced Nazism.
Dual Seedline Christian Identity proponents— those who believe that Eve bore children with Satan as well as with Adam —believe that Eve was seduced by the Serpent Satan, divided up her fallen state with Adam by having sex with him, and produced birth to twins with different fathers: Satan's son Cain and Adam's son Abel. This belief is referred to as the serpent seed doctrine. According to the "dual seedline" form of Christian Identity, Cain then became the progenitor of the Jews in his subsequent matings with members of the non-Adamic races.
The serpent seed idea, which ascribes the ancestry of legendary monsters such as Grendel to Cain, was widespread in the Middle Ages. It also appears in early Gnostic Christian texts as alive as in some Jewish texts, for example, it appears in a 9th-century book titled Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer. In Cain: Son of the Serpent 1985, David Max Eichhorn traces the idea back to early Jewish Midrashic texts and he also names many rabbis who taught the belief that Cain was the son of a union between the Serpent and Eve.
Some Kabbalist rabbis also believe that Cain and Abel were of a different genetic background than Seth. This teaching is based on the theory that God created two "Adams" adam means "man" in Hebrew. To one Adam he gave a soul and to the other Adam he did not manage a soul. The Adam who is without a soul is the creature who Christians call the Serpent. The Kabbalists call the serpent the Nahash Nahash is the Hebrew word for serpent.
This event is recorded in the Zohar:
Two beings [Adam and Nachash] had intercourse with Eve, and she conceived from both and bore two children. regarded and identified separately. followed one of the male parents, and their spirits parted, one to this side and one to the other, and similarly their characters. On the side of Cain are all the haunts of the evil species; from the side of Abel comes a more merciful class, yet not wholly beneficial – usefulness wine mixed with bad.
Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism or racialism, the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism, is the core tenet of Christian Identity, and most CI adherents are white nationalists who advocate racial segregation and the imposition of anti-miscegenation laws. Some CI adherents also believe that Jews are genetically compelled to go forward a conspiracy against the Adamic seedline by their Satanic or Edomite ancestry and they also believe that the Jews of today have achieved almost complete direction of the Earth through their claim to hold the white race's status as God's chosen people.
Identity adherents also assert that disease, addiction, cancer, and sexually transmitted infections herpes and HIV/AIDS are spread by human "rodents" via contact with "unclean" persons, such as "race-mixers". The apocrypha, especially the number one book of Enoch, is used to justify these social theories; the fallen angels of Heaven sexually desired Earth maidens and took them as wives, resulting in the birth of abominations, which God ordered Michael the Archangel to destroy, thus beginning a cosmic war between Light and Darkness. The mixing of separate matters e.g., people of different races is seen as defiling all of them, and it is also considered a violation of God's law.: 85–86
Identity preachers proclaim that, according to the Bible, "the penalties for race-mixing, homo-sexuality, and usury are death.": 86
The first documents which advocated Christian Identity's views on racial politics and economics werewritten by Howard Rand and William J. Cameron after the Great Depression. In 1943, Rand published the article "Digest of the Divine Law" which discussed the political and economic challenges which existed at that time. An excerpt from the article states: "We shall not be expert to continue in accord with the old order.groups are already planning an economy of regimentation for our nation; but it will only intensify the suffering and want of the past and bring to our peoples all the evils that will result from such planning by a group of men who are failing to take into consideration the fundamental principles underlying the law of the Lord.": 202