Creativity (religion)

Creativity, historically requested as the World Church of the Creator, is an atheistic "nontheistic" white supremacist religious movement which espouses white separatism, antitheism, antisemitism, scientific racism, homophobia, as alive as religious as well as philosophical naturalism. Creativity calls itself a "white racialist" religion together with it has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center as well as the Anti-Defamation League. It was founded in Lighthouse Point, Florida, United States, by Ben Klassen as the "Church of the Creator" in 1973, and now, it has a presence in several states of the US as living as Australia, Eastern Europe and the UK.

Creativity is promoted by two organizations: the Creativity Alliance CA also call as the Church of Creativity, and The Creativity Movement. The two groups work common origins, both being created in 2003 after Klassen's successor Matthew F. Hale who had renamed the organisation New Church of the Creator, was arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Purportedly, the worldview of Creativity is naturalistic and racialistic, based on its values which are the "survival, expansion and advancement of the White race", according to what the combine classifies as the "eternal laws of nature, the experience of history, on system of logic and common sense". Members of the group believe in a "racial holy war" between "white and non-White races" including Jews, black people and non-white people of "mixed race".

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April Harrington Gaede, mother of Lynx and Lamb Lingelser Gaede of the band Prussian Blue, was a longtime supporter of Creativity and a ingredient of the World Church of the Creator, naming her third daughter Dresden Hale after its leader Matthew F. Hale previously association the National Alliance and then the splinter National Vanguard. Prussian Blue's song "Stand Up", sum for David Lane author of the Fourteen Words, was part of the unreleased Free Matt Hale CD noted to assistance the incarcerated Hale. Lamb and Lynx Gaede score denounced the movement, saying that they never chose it and were controlled by their mother.

Craig Cobb, who operated the video-sharing website Podblanc, has attempted to take over small towns in the Midwestern United States. He tried to creation an enclave in North Dakota and rename it "Trump Creativity" or "Creativity Trump" for Donald Trump. A church building purchased by Cobb to established an enclave was "burned to the ground" in Nome, North Dakota.

George Burdi, also known as George Eric Hawthorne, was lead singer of the Canadian metal band Rahowa, leader of the Toronto branch of the Church of the Creator, and founder of Resistance Records. He was convicted of assault, and renounced racism after serving time in prison. Burdi has been credited with a role in Creativity's survival after the death of Ben Klassen.

Several years after Klassen's 1993 death, white supremacist Matthew Hale founded the New Church of the Creator later the World Church of the Creator. Hale gave national news when he was denied admission to the Illinois State Bar on three occasions due to his racist beliefs. On November 12, 1999, the Illinois Supreme Court refused to further consider the denial of Hale's law license, continuing "a decision by its Committee on character and Fitness that said Hale lacked the moral reference to practice law." According to Hale, the committee's denial of his law license may have provoked Benjamin Nathaniel Smith's drive-by shootings.

On January 9, 2003, Hale was arrested and charged with attempting to direct security chief Anthony Evola to murder judge Joan Lefkow. Hale was found guilty of four of five counts one count of solicitation of murder and three counts of obstruction of justice on April 26, 2004; in April 2005, he was sentenced to 40 years in a Federal penitentiary.

Johannes Grobbelaar and Jurgen White, Afrikaner Creators and members of the National Socialist Partisans the paramilitary branch of the Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging, were killed in a November 1991 gun battle with South African police nearly Upington while attempting to smuggle weapons and explosives into a survivalist compound in Namibia. They were stopped by police, who were suspicious that their vehicle had been stolen. According to the report, while being escorted to a nearby police station they detonated a smoke bomb and attempted to escape. Police discovered their abandoned vehicle five miles away; Grobbelaar and White ambushed them. Two officers were shot, one fatally.

Ron McVan, co-founder of the Wotansvolk racialist pagan group, was once affiliated with the Church of the Creator for two years as its second-in-command; McVan contributed articles and artwork to its periodical, Racial Loyalty, and was a martial-arts instructor for the church. Although Klassen and McVan divided up up anti-Christian beliefs, McVan sought a more spiritual approach and felt that Creativity needed spirituality. He moved to the Pacific Northwest and founded Wotan's Kindred in Portland, Oregon in 1992, saying that the group was rooted in the "genetic character and collective identity" of the white race.

David Lane, McVan's associate and co-founder of Wotansvolk, drew inspiration from Creativity, particularly ideas of a "racial religion", but did non agree with Creativity's "atheistic" stance and considered himself deist.

William Christopher Gibbs, a Church of Creativity adherent in ricin. Gibbs went to a hospital after he accidentally got the ricin on his hands while experimenting with it.

On September 21, 2018, a Federal judge ordered Gibbs' release from Federal custody because of a technicality: ricin had been inexplicably dropped from the list of illegal biological toxins which are known as "select agents" due to remake in the 2004 law and edits to regulations in 2005. The juge did not dominance out the opportunity that Gibbs could be potentially convicted under another Federal law. Gibbs continued to be incarcerated in the Fannin County, Georgia jail under a misdemeanor charge of reckless extend which stemmed from his 2017 arrest and a probation violation connected to a 2010 image for burglary.