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Prophets of the Apocalypse: White Supremacy and the Theology of
Christian Identity
2001
By Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth

Abstract
Many white supremacist organizations in the United States (such as
Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations and innumerable militia groups) draw
their inspiration from a theology known as Christian Identity, which
argues that the white race of North America is descended from the lost
tribes of Israel and is hence the Chosen People spoken of in the
Bible. This philosophy also posits that Jews are the direct
descendants of the Devil and that blacks are the product of
interbreeding between people and animals. This paper discusses the
main theoretical principles of Christian Identity, and how its
absolutist belief system encourages high activity forms of
organization, in-group favoritism, and the demonization of all
out-groups. The paper argues that the underlying ideology of Christian
Identity and its organizational manifestations are inherently cultic.
In this context, fundamental principles of social psychological theory
concerned with attribution, stereotyping, prejudice formation, and
uncertainty reduction are applied to the Identity milieu to explain
its apparent hold on significant numbers of people.

The influence of far right groupings has grown during the past two
decades. Significant numbers of people are now attracted to
organizations (e.g. Aryan Nations, Posse Commitatus) that might
properly be regarded as cultic. The theology of the Christian Identity
movement in particular is implicated in the growth of right wing
militias and Neo-Nazi organizations.

Although considerable academic material has been published on the far
right, previous researchers have failed to explicitly address Identity
theology and the organizational forms to which it gives rise from a
cultic perspective. Moreover, few have applied research from social
psychology to explain far-right phenomena. Some writers have
emphasised personality issues (e.g., Adorno et al, 1950) in which
support for the right is seen as inherently irrational and hence
susceptible only to personality based interpretations (see Wilcox,
1992, for an extended discussion of problems with this viewpoint).
Others have stressed the sociological issues involved (e.g., Bruce,
1995). Our contribution is to apply theoretical principles drawn from
social psychology and the analysis of cults in a way that has not
previously been attempted.

We have studied the Web sites of many far right organizations and of
various bodies who monitor their activities, to gauge the nature of
Identity theology and the extent of its organizational influence. We
make frequent reference to these sources in the pages that follow.

We argue that the basic tenets of this theology are so sharply focused
on the creation of in-groups and out-groups that it inherently
facilitates high activity forms of organization, conformity, and
cultic dynamics. In particular, its emphasis on imminent catastrophe
(the Armageddon paradigm) creates a psychologically receptive context
for the apocalyptic fantasies characteristic of many cult
organizations in a wide variety of ideological fields.

Flowing from this, we explore the psychological dynamics that allow
such apocalyptic fantasies to gain a serious hold on the imagination
of Identity followers. Key ideas looked at include expectancy effects,
uncertainty reduction theory, and the dynamics of stereotyping.

We also consider the possibility that those attracted to organizations
heavily influenced by Identity theology may be able to exert an
influence beyond their current small size.

Definitional Issues and the Relevance of Cultic Perspectives
Defining cults has proven problematic for researchers active in the
study of this area. Many descriptive terms commonly employed provoke
intense debate (e.g., "thought-reform," "brain-washing," and "exit
counseling"), while organizations that are sometimes viewed as cults
(e.g., Amway, the Moonies, Re-evaluation Counseling) vary enormously
in their actual practice (see Langone, 1993, for extended discussion
of cultic definitional issues). For example, the use of
criticism/self-criticism sessions has been reported as a key means of
enforcing conformity and submission in political cults (e.g., Lalich,
1992). During such sessions, cult members assemble to denounce the
alleged misdemeanours of their fellows. Eventually, the members
targeted for such attention are compelled to join in the process
themselves, often internalizing its harshest verdicts. Such practices,
however, are by no means universal, and other high activity,
undemocratic, and intensely ideologically committed groups (such as
the Committee for a Workers International) have been identified in
which they are absent (Tourish, 1998). Nevertheless, many such groups
exhibit sufficient dysfunctional behaviors to merit inclusion in the
pantheon of organizations defined as cultic.

The pursuit of absolute categories may obscure rather than illuminate
the study of cultic organizations. Outside of courtrooms, not every
question can be given a straight yes or no answer - yes, this
organization is a cult, or no it isn't. Organizations can combine
elements of cultic practice with seemingly sensible approaches to
everyday life. This means that some groups that begin with a rational
purpose (e.g., to influence the political process) can regress in a
dysfunctional and cultic direction.

Accordingly, cults may best be viewed daily as falling on a continuum.
At one end stand healthy well functioning groups, in which dissent is
respected, people participate in decision making, and members at all
times retain a foot in the real world. At the other end we find
totalitarian enclaves in which conformity is prized above all else and
people are frequently manipulated against their will for the greater
good of the cult leader. People and organizations can move back and
forth on this continuum depending on events. Organizations are not
necessarily either cults or not cults. They can be both at different
times and in different places.

This approach is particularly useful in reaching an understanding of
the extreme political right. Definitional problems with the term
"extreme right" abound (Cox, 1998). The term has been at various times
applied to the populist demagogue Father Coughlan in the 1930s, Joseph
McCarthy in the 1950s, and Barry Goldwater in the 1960s (Hopkins,
1992). In addition, the right, for the most part, has a more amorphous
and fluctuating structure than the rigid formations found on the
Marxist-Leninist extreme left (Tourish & Wohlforth, 2000). This may be
one important reason why so few have attempted to apply a cultic
analysis to the milieu of the right. In this discussion, however, we
limit our application of the term to those influenced by Christian
Identity theology, those whose beliefs find organizational expression
in the militia movement, and such semi-fascistic organizations as
Posse Comitatus and Aryan Nations.

We believe that our understanding of the extreme right, as so defined,
can be deepened by the application of a cultic analysis. Most
researchers in the field agree that it is what organizations do (e.g.,
intense activity; constant retreats from the outside world; the
deception of members; a relentless focus on recruitment and raising
money) rather than what they believe that qualifies them to be
regarded as cults (Singer & Lalich, 1995). It would therefore appear
that social psychological research which explores group dynamics,
attribution theory, prejudice formation, and stereotyping processes
can shed much light on how extremist belief systems find an
organizational expression in high activity groups that might properly
be understood as cults. Hence we may be better positioned to
understand how extremist belief systems often march hand in hand with
totalistic forms of organization.

The Armageddon Paradigm
We pay particular attention in this study to what we call "The
Armageddon Paradigm." Originating in the Judeo-Christian tradition,
this view has spawned religious cults like the People's Temple
(Layton, 1998) the Branch Davidians (Breault and King, 1993), and,
most recently, Aum Shinrikyo (Lifton, 1999). Scores of groups have
been identified, who adopt what can be defined as a millennial
perspective of imminent doom (see Landes, 2000). All of them proclaim
that The End Time is upon us. This means that most of the world's
population will be annihilated, with the exception of the chosen few.
On the far left, also, capitalism is claimed to be in crisis,
revolution is imminent, and the elite presently organized into a
vanguard party will soon triumph (see Lalich, 1992; Wohlforth, 1994;
and Tourish, 1998, for fuller accounts of this approach). The far
right has now adopted its own version of the Armageddon Paradigm. As
Cox (1998) has noted, its cataclysmic reading of the problems thrown
up by modern capitalism can be read as almost Marxist like in their
implications. However, whereas leftists anticipate Armageddon in terms
of class insurrection and warfare, rightists see the End Time in terms
of race war, and depict whites (or Aryans) as the chosen survivors of
a racial conflagration.

The Armageddon Paradigm isolates its adherents from the damned mass of
humanity, gives a sense of urgency to their activities, leads to
increasing paranoia, and justifies any course of action its leaders
propose. These are fruitful conditions for the emergence of cultic
organizations.

Christian Identity, which forms the theoretical foundation for the
approach of many on the far right, is convinced that Armageddon is
imminent, maintains intense suspiciousness toward all those deemed
different, and holds to a belief that a Chosen People have a God-given
role to play in salvaging the world. Survivalism, high levels of
activity, internal gatherings from which outsiders are excluded but in
which emotionally charged rituals reinforce the belief system - these
behaviors, and others, flow naturally from this belief system. Both
the ideology of Christian Identity and the actions to which it gives
rise are immune from the influence of facts, alternative and more
credible explanations, and the possibility of growth and change
through experience. A cultic analysis can therefore enrich our
understanding of this important phenomenon.

The Growth of the Right
Within the United States, the politics of hate is currently a major
growth industry. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the
Internet housed one hate site at the time of the Oklahoma bombing in
1995 (Hunt, 1999). By the end of the century, this had risen to 2000.
Some of these were aimed at children under ten. Nor have organizations
possessed by notions of racial superiority merely confined their
activities to cyberspace. The Southern Poverty Law Center has
calculated that the total of hate groups within the US is 537, and
growing. Between them, these groups claimed 200,000 members (MSNBC
News Release, 1999). The number of neo-Nazi and KKK groups rose by 40%
in one year, to 314 (Preston, 1999). Militia groups have also
mushroomed, and are reckoned to be active in at least 36 states
(Stern, 1996). In passing, it should be noted that the growth of hate
is not confined to the United States. For example, during the late
1990s, Australia saw a large if temporary growth in a party known as
"One Nation," which displayed semi-fascistic undertones in its
propaganda. It also concentrated all power in the hands of its revered
leader, Pauline Hanson, and barred its claimed 300 branches from
communicating directly with each other (Tourish and Wohlforth, 2000).
It won 22.67% of the vote in its first electoral outing in the state
of Queensland (Greason, 1998).

Within the American militias the dominant mood is one of fear,
paranoia, contempt for difference, a conviction that Armageddon is
imminent, and an absolute determination to achieve wider influence.
One report into their activities summarized their belief system in
these terms:

Some speak of government plans to shepherd dissidents into 43
concentration camps... Some claim that the government plans to murder
more than three-quarters of the American people... that Hong Kong
policemen and Gurkha troops are training in the Montana wilderness in
order to "take guns away from Americans" on orders of the Clinton
administration; that UN equipment is being transported on huge trains
and that Russian and German trucks are being shipped to attack
Americans... that House Speaker Newt Gringrich is part of a "global
conspiracy" to create one-government New World Order" (Cited in Stern,
1996, p.15).

Many of the militia groups, and other supremacist organizations, trace
their belief system to the theology of Christian Identity. In this
philosophy, Jews, blacks, gays, and all identifiable minority groups
are depicted as the champions of a devilish conspiracy against a pure,
Christian, and white way of life. Consequently, catastrophe can only
be averted by racial separation achieved through conflict. One of the
movement's best known and most vociferous proponents, William Pierce,
expounds this position in an article published on his website:

Certainly, there may be bloody chaos if we resist the Jews and their
collaborators. And we should not flinch from this. We should not focus
on the fact that it will be horrible and bloody, but on the fact that
it will be necessary, and because it is necessary it is good (Cited by
Etchingham, 2000, p.4).

The theology of Christian Identity acts as a theoretical and emotional
justification for the activities of the many white supremacist cults
now active within the United States. Such is its imagined explanatory
power that they are drawn to it, just as a moth is attracted to the
brightest light in a room. Understanding where it comes from is a
vital step in grasping the mindsets of those organising to deliver
white supremacy in America. It also helps explain the sense of
passionate commitment and invincible conviction held by many of its
supportersžemotions that lend themselves perfectly to cultic forms of
organization.

Identity Theology, Paramilitarism, and Politics
Identity theology is dangerous precisely because it necessarily seeks
an organized expression in the form of high activity groups that share
many of the characteristics commonly found in cults. The movement's
eschatological credo provides paramilitary and survivalist groups with
an ultimate justification for their existence and an inexhaustible
fuel for their over-arching sense of self-importance. Accordingly,
many Identity believers have embraced self-sufficient survivalist
communities that eschew the larger societies. The term "survivalism"
describes a life-style of physical withdrawal and self-sufficiency
geared to surviving some imagined future catastrophe. Survivalist
writer Kurt Saxon has said that a survivalist is "one who anticipates
the collapse of civilization and wants to save himself and his loved
ones and bring something to the movement, if you would, which will
contribute to the advance of the next generation" (Cited by Tourish &
Wohlforth, 2000, p.48).

The sense of urgency is acute. At best, such communities hover on the
fringes of legality. In some cases, however, they are actively
preparing terrorist campaigns and, ultimately, secession from the US.
A number of people have already proclaimed the "Republic of Texas" as
a separate nation, and maintain that lawful authority within the state
is to be located only within their compounds. (It should be pointed
out that the Republic of Texas has also attracted supporters from
outside the tradition of the Christian Identity movement). Others have
argued that organizing insurgency now will spark a wider popular
rebellion against ZOG( Zionist Occupation Government). This fallacy is
often repeated on the left in slightly different forms.

Radical withdrawal in self-sustaining communities promotes a siege
mentality. Enemies are everywhere and the final battle for salvation
has already begun. People become afraid to go into the woods at night.
We noted, earlier, how Identity theology leads in many cases to a
self-fulfilling prophecy. Survivalism is particularly prone to this
outcome, promoting as it does the very confrontation with authority
from which its advocates have been theoretically seeking to defend
themselves. A number of such incidents have already occurred, such as
the Ruby Ridge siege in 1992. These events have entered the folklore
of the far right as further definitive proof of impending apocalypse.

The psychological effects are powerful, but contradictory. On the one
hand, organizing reduces uncertainty. Temporarily, the disempowered
feel empowered. The presence of others on country retreats, in public
demonstrations, and in private confabs nourishes a sense of absolute
conviction. It promises redemption, triumph and public acclaim, when
the conspiracy is defeated. Certainty in the justice of The Cause
increases. Yet such is the all-embracing scope of the conspiracy that
it can never be fully vanquished. Paranoia needs enemies, as an
infection needs diseased tissue. If one tentacle of the conspiracy is
lopped off another must be found immediately. The purpose of paranoia
is paranoia. Thus, the fact of struggling also increases uncertainty
about the eventual outcome. The more one fights against the conspiracy
the more visible its agents become. The enemy is assumed to be
everywhere, aided and abetted by agents within the upper echelons of
Government, the major Churches, and even within other groups on the
far right. The fevered imagination of the right wing cultist is
haunted by the specter of sell out and defeat. Thus, the struggle to
reduce uncertainty combined with its undying presence further inflames
their sense of righteousness, isolation, and peril, ensuring a
constant recommitment to the certainties of the struggle. Normal
political action is quite compatible with question marks. For right
wing cultists, on the other hand, doubt is as welcome as daylight in a
ghost story. Their rituals, incantations, and monster stories are all
designed to hold it at bay. Ideology is an important part of this
effort, and the main ideological wellspring seems to come from the
Christian Identity movement.

The Evolution of Christian Identity
Christian Identity is sometimes known as British Israelism, Israel
identity, and Kingdom message. Its origins lie in mid-19th century
Britain. The most basic idea animating its adherents is that white
Christians are the true Israelites of the Old Testament and are God's
chosen people (see Bushart et al., 1998, for fuller discussion). In
its modern, American incarnation, Christian Identity argues that the
US is the Promised Land spoken of in the Bible. Identity supporters
believe that ten lost tribes of Israel migrated to Europe, Great
Britain and eventually the USA. They argue that fundamental
differences distinguish one race from another and therefore that they
should not co-mingle. Miscegenation is the ultimate horror,
threatening to dilute the pure bloodstock of the Aryan master race.

This prejudice is cast in Biblical mode. Non-whites were created with
other animals before Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of
Eden. Hence, they are not fully human. The theory of different origins
enables many believers to claim that they are not racists at all. In
contradiction to the general thrust of their propaganda, they argue
that the races are not necessarily inferior or superior. They are just
different, in the same way that cattle are different to dogs or
humans, and have different roles, rights, and entitlements. Tim
Houser, an Identity follower, has said:

Identity is not racist. Jews and blacks are what they are. God chose
to... make blacks with the animals, we didn't. I have to believe God,
and he spelled it out clear in the Bible. I'd give the shirt off my
back to a black man if he came to my door. But I can't make him the
same as me (Cited by Dyer, 1998, p.94).

Nevertheless, it follows that American cities will go up in flames, as
race war escalates, and that Christian Identity followers will then
reconstruct a new Israel in America (Zeskind, 1986; Katz and Popkin,
2000). Thus, the creation of in-groups versus out-groups is at the
very heart of Christian Identity theology. It is this dynamic,
unleashed by the belief system, which inherently points its proponents
in the direction of cultic forms of organization.

Of course, the reluctance of many Identity followers to accept that
their belief system is racist, a term with powerfully negative
connotations is a useful means of avoiding cognitive dissonance. In
essence, we are motivated to imagine that our feelings, attitudes, and
behavior are much more consistent with each other than they actually
are (Cialdini, 2001). When an apparent contradiction within this
trinity arises we experience an unease that has been described as
dissonance (Festinger, 1957). For many supremacists an acceptance of
the term "racist" would jar with their self-image as a righteous and
God-fearing people, creating dissonance. However, if they can avoid
attaching racist labels to their belief system it becomes possible to
maintain two objectively contradictory positions at once - a racist
perspective, and a self-image as practicing Christians motivated by a
love for humanity. What Orwell memorably termed "Doublethink" thrives
precisely through such Olympian displays of linguistic gymnastics. The
disavowal of negative labels may also have the effect of facilitating
ever more extreme behaviors and attitudes, since the rejection of
clear linguistic categories ensures that nothing disturbs the person's
positive self-image.

Within the Identity movement, Jews are regarded as having an even
worse point of origin than people of color. They are depicted as the
direct biological offspring of the Devil. Either the Devil or one of
his underlings had sex with Eve in the Garden of Eden. Cain was the
progeny of this union, and Jews are viewed as his direct descendents.
This means that they have an unalterable capacity for evil. It is in
their blood, and even conversion to Christianity is not sufficient to
change it. This strand of Identity theology has a long genealogy, but
was firmly in place by the early 1960s. Since then, it has become ever
more dominate. As Barkun (1994) has pointed out, it distinguishes the
bigotry of Christian Identity from even the most virulent plagues of
anti-Semitism in previous periods of human history. In the past, it
was frequently argued that Jews were the products of interbreeding
between people and animals. Their continued existence would lead to
the defilement and degradation of the human race. Nevertheless, they
were at least granted a common point of origin among the species of
this world. The distinctive contribution that Christian Identity makes
to anti-Semitic theory is viler and potentially more destructive than
any of its racist precursors.

In the world of the far right, religion and politics are inseparably
intertwined. For example, a creedal statement produced by the neo-Nazi
Aryan Nations and the tautologically challenged Church of Jesus Christ
Christian declares:

WE BELIEVE that there are literal children of Satan in the world
today. These children are the descendants of Cain, who was a result of
Eve's original sin, her physical seduction by Satan. We know that
because of this sin, there is a battle and a natural enmity between
the children of Satan and the Children of the Most High God...

WE BELIEVE that there is a battle being fought this day between the
children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children of light
(God), the Aryan race, the true Israel of the Bible. (Cited by Barkun,
1994, p.189)

In part, this explains the fascination that so many on the far right
display for the person of Hitler. His photographs frequently adorn
white supremacist sites on the Internet. Aryan Nations is a fan club
for Hitler, but one that seeks to move beyond homage and achieve the
enactment of his program in modern day America. Hence, Jews are not
only demonized for their alleged satanic origin. It is also argued
that they are engaged in a tightly organized and well-advanced
conspiracy to take over the world. In some cases this conspiracy is
presented as having already come to fruition. The US Government is
often referred to as ZOG - the Zionist Occupation Government. Hate
literature offers what its authors take to be indisputable evidence
for this assertion, such as long lists of Jews who have belonged to
President Clinton's cabinets. During his presidency, Clinton himself
was frequently described as "President Klinton."

It follows that Jews routinely engage in inhuman practices. Aryan
Nations produces a paper entitled Calling Our Nation. It has regularly
published accounts of Jews committing human sacrifices as a normal
part of their religious rituals.

Once such attitudes are acquired, those infected by them seek out
evidence that supports their belief system and ignore anything that
suggests they might be mistaken. This practice (of selective
attention) is central to the maintenance of uncritical enthusiasm for
all cultic belief systems. It is also a cognitive defect that is
widely shared and afflicts among many people who would be appalled by
the suggestion that they harbored racist ideas. Researchers have found
that most of us interpret minor differences between groups, such as
skin colour, as a barometer of much greater difference (Brown, 1995).
It has also been found that even those whites outside the Identity
tradition, who observed or heard about a solitary black person's
negative attitudes, had their critical outgroup perceptions
strengthened (Henderson, 1996). In addition, they were more likely
afterwards to avoid contact with black people or minimise the duration
of such contact when these proved unavoidable. Furthermore, a single
negative event involving a black person was sufficient to lead
participants into expressing in-group favoritism.

This may be partly because unusual events stand out in our memory,
precisely because they are unusual (Dawes, 1994). However, when an
action out of the ordinary is performed by a member of a minority
group it stands out all the more both because the event is unusual and
because the source is a member of a minority group (Brown, 1995). The
Christian Identity milieu is clearly predisposed to highlight "bad"
behaviors on the part of those who belong to the stigmatised out
group, claim that it is typical of everyday behaviour by all
concerned, diminish instances of normal functioning by such people,
and claim that the exceptional events they highlight as typical
constitute a terminal threat to the survival of the white race.

Accordingly, those influenced by Identity theology now assume that the
Jewish conspiracy has assumed vast proportions. It involves the
International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, the United Nations,
the Trilateral Commission, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Taxation is generally viewed as a threat to individual freedom. The
primary aim of the conspiracy is to erode white rights. Identity
followers believe that gun control is nothing more than a cunning ploy
to render whites helpless in the face of the Zionist enemy.

Thus, in-group favoritism (e.g,. "American whites are the chosen
people") is inexorably combined with the stigmatization of out-groups
(e.g., "Jews and blacks are at best sub-human"). What others see as
random or unrelated events are depicted as part of an orderly
conspiracy, directed with great cunning by the designated out-groups.
The result is an overwhelming sense of moral righteousness,
persecution, isolation and contempt for mainstream society. If all the
institutions of the state are indeed as nefarious as is depicted, then
it also follows that elitist and high activity forms of organization
are necessary for salvation: nothing less than the future of humanity
is at stake.

The End is Nigh...
The prospect of imminent catastrophe is a hard-to-beat, ultimate
justification for zealous proselytizing, commitment, and sacrifice in
support of The Cause. It is therefore no surprise that a strident
belief in Armageddon, in one form or another, is common to all manner
of cults. In this case, Identity believers insist that a final
conflict between the Aryan forces of goodness and the Satanically
inspired forces of darkness is imminent. The resultant sense of
urgency is a handy weapon in the struggle to enforce conformity,
veneration of the idealized leader, and intense levels of activity.
Debate, doubt, and dissent are seen as luxuries for more tranquil
times than these. In this respect, Identity adherents excel even the
sooth-saying prophets of Marxism. Dan Gayman, of the Church of Israel,
put it like this:

The fall of the American government is imminent. We are living already
in the preparatory throes of a national and world wide revolution...
as the agents of Satan who head their world wide conspiracy of
anti-Christ, plot and plan the total demise of Christian civilization
and of the white race... A blood bath will take place upon the soil of
this great nation, that will end only in victory for Christ or Satan.
We of the Nordic race who believe in Jesus Christ are determined that
this nation will remain ours. (Cited by Barkun, 1994, p.110)

Such expectations lend a frantic urgency to the hunt for out-groups
who can be blamed for every calamity that besets the modern world.
Unemployment, poverty in the rural mid-West, declining moral
standards, and the reluctance of many to teach so-called creationist
science in schools are all taken as evidence of the Jewish conspiracy
against Christian and American values. As one publication puts it:

Jews are evil, anti-Christian, un-Christian, and in control of most of
the organized evil of the world, such as prostitution, international
slavery, international money-changing, profiteering on wars,
racketeering in labor, corruption in politics, modernism in religion,
atheism in the school system, promotion of lewd propaganda through
theaters and picture shows etc. (Cited by Bushart et al., 1998,
p.143).

At the core of the Identity belief system lies the notion of imminent
racial obliteration. Identity believers want to relocate all
minorities to about 10% of the US landmass, and reserve the rest for
white Christians. These must also be not gay, left wing, feminist,
pro-abortion, or multi-cultural in outlook. Difference, the spice of
life, will give way to bland uniformity. The landscape for all seasons
is white, white, and more white. Dissent must bow its head in
submissive conformity.

The threat of violence is never far below the surface. It further
promotes a sense of imminent peril, and hence reinforces the members'
allegiance to the primary in-group. Ezekiel, a researcher, attended an
Aryan National Congress in Northern Idaho, and has produced a chilling
account of the proceedings. Aryan Nations is one of the best-known
organizations on the far right, and its leaders have been heavily
influenced by Identity theology. Here is one speaker and the response
of his audience (Ezekiel, 1995, p.42):

We must get rid of the Federal Reserve System and of the income tax.
We must repudiate the national debt. We must tell the people at the
top: "There will be treason trials! You will be strung from the
trees!"'

The room explodes in loud applause. Cries of "Hail Victory!" Cries of
"White Power!"'

Such gatherings display all the colors of a cult in full bloom. The
group dynamics are calculated to induce maximum conformity. Thus, the
Congress observed by Ezekiel was held at a compound in Hayden Lake,
away from any outside scrutiny or the possibility of corrective
influence from anyone unimpressed by supremacist theology. A sign near
the entrance read "Aryans Only," setting a tone of exclusivity from
the beginning. All new arrivals had their credentials checked by
guards posted at the entrance. The message was: this is a gathering
only for the initiated, the trusted, the select few. Nazi music played
throughout the weekend, broadcast from loudspeakers located in a
convenient watchtower. Participants were afforded no escape from an
incessant message of hate. Nazi flags were prominently displayed,
while all arrivals found themselves quickly habituated to the frequent
exchange of Nazi salutes. Research has generally found that people
adopt the norms, dress codes, linguistic forms, and behaviors of
groups to which they commit with astonishing ease (Brown, 2000).
Meanwhile, an endless succession of speakers pounded away at the same
message: the Jewish threat is moving towards conclusion; blacks are
gaining power everywhere; the US Government is in the pay of the
conspiracy. The refrain is relentless: "White Power! White Power!
White Power!" For those present, the return trip to reality must be
traumatic.

Self-righteousness is deepened by yet another paradox. On the one
hand, the sufferings of the stigmatised out-groups are described as
non-existent. On the other hand, the members of such groups are
themselves blamed for any problems that are reluctantly acknowledged
to exist.

Again, this problem extends beyond those who belong to hate groups. It
is a fundamental component of a prejudiced mindset. For example, two
researchers investigated white stereotypes of African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans (Bobo & Kluegel, 1991). They
found that whites needed to "explain" the disadvantaged condition of
the minority being observedžmore precisely, to find explanations which
justified it. Many alternative explanations for black disadvantage are
available (for example, that the disadvantage is primarily the product
of white prejudice and discrimination). However, to accept this would
require self-criticism, and criticism might in turn be extended to
social institutions with which many whites identify more closely than
do members of minority groups. It was found that whites tended to
assume a casual connection between the stereotypical traits ascribed
to the minority groups and their social situation: that is, it was
their own fault. In short, it was much more convenient to assume that
their position of social disadvantage reflected their naturally
inferior position than discrimination practised by the white society.
We would describe this as a perspective of "illusory causality."
Clearly, the tendency to blame those at the receiving end of bias for
its effects is particularly pronounced among members of extreme hate
groups. The effect is to promote in-group favoritism (i.e., a belief
in the innate superiority of the group to which one belongs), combined
with out-group stigmatisation (i.e., a belief in the innate
inferiority of the designated out-groups). It would appear that such
psychological dynamics are a necessary ingredient for the development
of cultic organizations, driven as they are by an exclusive sense of
mission that separates their followers from all other groups in
society. Such separation is most easily accomplished if the members
can be convinced that they are both different from and superior to
other groups with whom they come in contact.

The apocalyptic ideas that go with this mindset were greatly
strengthened in the post-war period by the existence of the Soviet
Union. One Identity writer, Bertrand Comparet, described the imminent
Final Days (and they are always depicted as imminentždecade after
decade) in the following terms:

The Russian Gog will form a coalition of its own satellites, including
Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Libya." He argued that these would also be
aided by "the mixed breeds of Asia and Africa and India, who... will
ally themselves with anything which promises them that they can
pillage and rape in the lands of the White man. (Cited by Barkun,
1994, p.110)

The Russian hordes were then expected to seize the eastern
Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, to disrupt the flow of oil to the
west, and attack the US across the Bering Straits while also deploying
missiles, submarines, and aircraft.

Typically, the only evidence offered for such predictions consists of
Biblical quotations, selected precisely because their vagueness means
that they can be press-ganged into the service of any and every
theological construction. The collapse of the Soviet Union hasn't
noticeably dented anyone's sense of certainty. In a seamless
transition that passes unnoticed by most True Believers, the focus of
the conspiracy theory is simply shifted onto new enemies, principally,
ZOG. The underlying apocalyptic perspective is encased in titanium and
located in bombproof shelters, where it withstands all refutation from
the outside world. Yesterday's failed predictions are rationalized
into insignificance. For long-term cultists, amnesia is an
occupational disease, whatever their ideological point of departure.
The fact that the prediction has surfaced countless times before is
concealed from new members, and consigned to the dusty vaults of
memory by the old. Members are in turn too occupied by frantic
activity to seriously think through the contradictions of their
position. The conspiracy is too close to victory for debate, doubt, or
questions. Immediate action alone can save those fortunate enough to
belong to the designated in-group.

Again, the inadequate empirical base for the belief system upheld by
rightist cults is also common across the spectrum of cultic
organizations. In order to maintain their sense of certainty, and
consequent commitment to absolutist forms of organization, it is
imperative that they resist exposing their beliefs to empirical
testing and the possibility of falsification (Shermer, 1997). When
faced with refutation the solution is simply to crank up the volume of
their rhetoric, and reinforce its impact by repetition, thereby
silencing the voices of dissent.

The Power of Expectancy Effects
A key ingredient sustaining the psychology of such a belief system is
the dynamic of expectancy effects. Researchers have consistently found
that our expectations of events strongly influence how we perceive
them. One study, particularly pertinent in this context, required
subjects to observe a videotape of a heated argument that climaxed
with one person pushing the other (Duncan, 1976). When the "shover"
was black, his behavior tended to be perceived by white observers as
"violent." On the other hand, if the shover was white his behavior was
generally regarded as "playing around." In short, we see people and
events not as they really are, but as our theories about them suggest
they ought to be. It is also unlikely that many of these people would
have regarded themselves as racist: if asked, they would have insisted
that the adjective "violent" was an objectively accurate descriptor of
the behavior they had witnessed. Thus, when cults provide us with a
theory of everything it is little wonder that conflicting evidence
from the real world is so readily set aside. Identity believers
believe that their theory possesses such an all-embracing explanatory
power.

Guided by their belief system, they thus perceive every political
event as further evidence that their conspiratorial and apocalyptic
interpretation of the world has been confirmed. Furthermore, in many
cases, their expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. A
believer in Christian Identity will view blacks, Jews and gays as
mortal enemies who threaten the survival of the white race and who
should therefore be relocated to small reservations or exterminated
outright. They will engage in public protests and demand retribution
against the designated out-groups. The fact that members of such
groups respond angrily to such suggestions, and even organize
counter-demonstrations, becomes further evidence to the cultist that
he or she is surrounded by enemies. The drawbridge forming a link to
reality is raised. On the other hand, if there is no public reaction,
it merely constitutes evidence that the conspiracy has grown even more
devious in covering its tracks.

Accordingly, the belief system is immune to falsification. Whatever
happens, whatever could possibly happen, is taken as evidence of its
essential correctness. Many Identity enthusiasts, for example, argue
vehemently that the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 was actually the work of
the US Government, as part of a plot to discredit the right (Tourish &
Wohlforth, 2000). The Waco siege in 1993 was not a bungled FBI
operation, but a ZOG inspired assault on Christian dissenters. One
long time supremacist, Eustace Mullins, penned the following critique
of what occurred:

The Waco Church Holocaust, in which many worshippers, including
innocent children, were burned alive while worshiping in their church
(was) an atrocity which surpasses the worst accusations made against
the Nazis in Germany. (Cited by Stern, 1996, p.64)

In essence, paranoia is the nearest thing we have to a perpetual
motion machine. It requires no further impetus than a starting point,
and a modest injection of determination. The more self-contained its
social environment and the fewer inputs it receives from the outside
world, the stronger it is likely to become. As Dyer (1998, p.112) has
put it:

The power of conspiracy rests in faith: in the ability to believe in
things unseen, to be sure of something that cannot be proven by our
senses or by documentation. Faith has always been a stronger force in
the world than mere reason, and because of that, debunking conspiracy
theories is almost impossible.

Conspiracy theories can sink such deep roots because members of hate
groups tend to see those in minority categories as interchangeable
with all other members of the category. However brilliant their
achievements, the fact of their group membership is the most important
thing about them. In this world, we do not live in communities
composed of individual people. Rather, we are besieged by homogeneous
hordes of aliens, devils, rabid feminists, half-apes, and sodomites,
all out to get us.

This perspective is so often contagious precisely because the habit of
blanket categorisation is practised far beyond the confines of
Identity inspired communes and rural retreats. Hence, the social
climate for supremacist ideas is frequently nurturing. The Christian
Identity movement simply gives such categorisation a more strident
form, and proclaims it with pride rather than shame. Furthermore, it
seeks to turn prejudice from a mood of incandescent anger into a
coherent movement, capable of imposing a separatist agenda on the
wider society.

Uncertainty, Stereotyping, and Cult Recruitment
We live in a period of unprecedented social change. Clearly, many of
the changes endured in the past two decades (e.g., downsizing,
delayering, globalization) have been profoundly painful for millions
of people. Identity theology draws much of its strength from a
reaction against this upheaval. Many commentators have extolled the
virtues of rapid change and urged people to embrace it willingly
(e.g., Peters, 1992). In general, such counsel is as successful as
that of a surgeon who grimly urges her patients to "enjoy your
operation." It simply runs counter to how most of us feel. For
example, in terms of work, people generally prefer to do a job the way
in which it has been learned, performed, and reinforced in the past
(Moorhead & Griffin, 1989). Change makes our world less familiar,
predictable, and comfortable, and we therefore tend to react
instinctively against it. In turn, the desire to increase
predictability, and maintain a sense of order, ensures that we attach
great importance to the reduction of uncertainty during our
interactions with others (Jones, 1990).

In order to reduce uncertainty, we develop an increased tendency
towards hasty generalizations, the formation of rapid judgements about
people, crude social categorizations, stereotyping, and the ready
embrace of simplistic political slogans. Error is implicit in the
process. For example, we may "brutalize" reality when an object,
person, or event is conscripted into a category, despite
characteristics it possesses which do not belong there (Bruner &
Potter, 1964). We may also attribute emotions to the "object" which it
does not hold (e.g., a hatred of all whites), but which we imagine are
common to the interchangeable members of the category (Snyder &
Uranowitz, 1978). Nevertheless, our confidence in such misperceptions
tends to be high.

Some such stereotyping is inevitable. All of us bring considerable
existing knowledge with us to any new interaction. Such knowledge
includes person prototypes (what this person is typically like), role
schemas (what someone playing this role is most likely to do) and
typical event sequences or scripts (what most often happens in this
situation). In particular, the fastest way to reduce uncertainty in an
unfamiliar social context is to stereotype the other people involved
by assuming that they belong to a readily identifiable category
(Leyens et al., 1994). We rely less on person prototypes and more on
role schemas and typical event sequences. Stereotypes assume that
individuals share more behaviors, personality traits, and beliefs with
other people in their category than they actually do. Stereotyping
helps us to simplify social reality, and so reduces uncertainty.

It is then assumed that members of the designated category share this
essence with each other. In turn, this strengthens the tendency to
exaggerate similarities between the members of the social category
concerned, while underplaying their differences. We also assume that
members of the category concerned are more different from people in
other categories than is actually the case. For those who adhere to a
belief system such as Christian Identity, the problem is that their
stereotypes seek to explain everything, and are immune to corrective
input from the outside world. Again, the psychological dynamic is
similar to that found in many Marxist-Leninist sects, gripped by
apocalyptic expectations and certain that the philosophy of
dialectical materialism explains all conceivable phenomena, from the
Big Bang to fluctuations in the business cycle.

Stereotyping, as discussed here, underpins the whole process of ethnic
generalization and prejudice formation. In particular, it has obvious
implications for our understanding of right wing extremism, with its
evident bias towards racism.

The impact of stereotyping individuals, groups, and events can also be
understood in terms of attribution theory (Hewstone, 1991). This
proposes that we constantly attribute both intention and disposition
to the actions of other people. The problem is that we cannot directly
discern what their intentions and dispositions are. To our
frustration, what goes on in people's heads remains largely
inaccessible. Not to be defeated, we by-pass this difficulty by taking
the route known as creative theorizing. In social situations, this
assumes the form of gossip and rumor. Gossip becomes stories, in which
we frequently construct plausible causal connections between
unconnected events in order to lend extra coherence to our view of the
world (Dawes, 2001). Plainly, plausibility is not the same thing as
accuracy, and stories do not have to be accurate to feel plausible.
The purpose behind their construction is the reduction of uncertainty.
Rather than admit that we do not know what is happening, most of us
have a tendency to speculate. When we share such speculations with
others we engage in self-persuasion (Pratkanis & Aronson, 1991). In
addition, research suggests that we have a tendency to believe that
whatever is repeated is more likely to be true (Cialdini, 2001).
Furthermore, if those we talk to acknowledge that what we say might be
correct, we grow even more convinced that our musings have some basis
in fact. The more people who share an opinion with us, the more
convinced we become that it must be accurate, an entirely vacuous
reasoning process known as consensual validation (Zebrowitz, 1990).

In the world of the far right all these processes can be seen at work.
Gossip and rumor are rife. Furthermore, real evidence is irrelevant.
Every event is interpreted as proof of the underlying conspiratorial
theory, whatever the facts actually suggest. When ideas are liberated
from the constraints of evidence-based argument in this manner,
unsubstantiated gossip becomes the mainstay of human conversation.
Furthermore, internal gatherings on the far right (in common with
those of most cult organizations) exclude dissenters. This ensures
that True Believers constantly share bogus stories that have one
redeeming feature they are all consistent with the belief system.
Self-persuasion is thus rampant. Furthermore, the spectacle is one of
many people agreeing with each other. Consensual validation takes
root. By these means, the weed of conformity is watered thrice daily
and bathed in perpetual sunshine.

The conspiracy theories ardently promoted by the Christian Identity
movement encourage rampant social categorization. The attribution
process then becomes a means of assigning predictable intentions and
dispositions to large numbers of people. True Believers no longer need
to know precisely what other people really think, believe, and intend
to do. It is sufficient to know which category they belong to. In the
process, all political life is conceptualized as nothing more than the
orderly working out of whatever theory the cult's worldview has
ordained as "the truth." Evidence and further analysis is irrelevant.
What remains is the need for organization, total unanimity around a
few simplistic but compelling myths, hyperactivity, and the frantic
quest for wider political influence.

Conclusion, and Implications
Increasingly, the incitement promulgated by Identity theologians is
enacted on the streets. Between 1991 and 1995 there were 4046 pipe
bomb incidents in the US (Stern, 1996). Members of Aryan Nations have
been accused of murder, conducting armored car robberies, and staging
over 20 bank robberies to finance a white supremacist revolution
(Preston, 1999). A far right organization known as The Order staged
two major robberies in the 1980s, netting over $4 million, and was
implicated in the 1984 murder of the Jewish talk show host, Alan Berg
(Cox, 1998). The Order's founder, killed in a shoot out with the FBI,
expressed his belief system in a letter written shortly before his
demise, that clearly echoes the concerns of the Christian Identity
movement. He feared that his son would grow up to "be a stranger in
his own land, a blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryan in a country populated
mainly by Mexicans, mulattoes, blacks and Asians" (Ridgeway, 1990,
p.96).

As we have seen, supremacist organizations and cults thrive on a diet
of Armageddon, of imminent End Times, of a final confrontation between
the races. If they alone adhered to such a perspective then their
influence would undoubtedly remain limited. However, apocalyptic
visions of the future are widely held in American society. A recent
survey found that 59% of American adults feared that the world would
come to an end (Dyer, 1998). Twelve percent of those surveyed believed
it would happen within the next few years. It is of course true that
the influence of the far right is severely limited by its designation
of many potential supporters as out-groups, and its consequent
fragmentation (Bruce, 1995). Nevertheless, a lot of people, when they
think of the future, tremble in fear. The propagandists of hate play
daily with matches in a room packed with explosives.

In addition, we have attempted to suggest that many of the
psychological dynamics that underlie prejudice formation (e.g.,
uncertainty reduction, stereotyping, expectancy effects) are not
limited to members of hate groups. Rather, they are practiced to a
greater or lesser extent by most of us. For this reason, explanations
of right wing activism that focus solely on personality seem
unsatisfactory. Moreover, it enables us to engage in stereotyping
ourselves, while deploring its consequences in others "we" belong to
the civilised majority, while barbarian right wing fanatics stand as a
solid phalanx on the other side of the barricades. So deeply
entrenched are many individuals' concepts of the right (in the form of
archetypes) that it is in fact certain stereotyping occurs in the
course of this paper.

However, if it is true that much right wing activism emanates from
tendencies towards stereotyping in which we all engage, it suggests
that the propaganda of far right groups could provoke a wider echo,
under certain conditions. Even if such an echo falls short of majority
support, and even if it proves a temporary aberration, it could still
be sufficient to inflict significant damage on the political process.
The upsurge of support for One Nation in Australia, now halted, is one
warning of this possibility.

Furthermore, the theology of Christian Identity may evoke an opposite
but equally powerful reaction from many of those it stigmatizes.
Suffering is not ennobling and does not create a monopoly of virtue. A
variety of attitude measurements taken in the past have shown that
Jewish students who felt themselves the victims of prejudice were more
rather than less likely to display anti-Negro sentiments. Catholic
students who were surveyed and felt that they had been victimized
ranked higher on tests of both anti-Semitism and anti-Negro prejudice
than those who did not. (These studies are discussed in detail by
Young-Bruehl, 1996, p.53). Those at the receiving end of prejudice
themselves feel frustration, and in turn direct this against other
minority groups. A spiral of social disintegration can be set in
motion, in which a fragmented society turns in on itself, allowing all
sorts of bizarre cults to seize this time as their time and impose a
separatist agenda on our society. In the heat of the night, white
supremacist movements may yet find real phantoms stepping out of the
shadows to greet them.

Not all supremacist organizations are cults. Some do not meet the most
commonly agreed criteria for cultic organizations that are familiar to
readers of this journal (See Langone, 1993, pp. 2-5). However, they do
possess what we would describe as a cultic mindset. In some cases, the
forms of organization adopted on the far right lag slightly behind the
mentality of their members. Thus, as outlined at the beginning of this
paper, cults are best viewed on a continuum. As we have argued here,
some ideologies are particularly liable to activate the process of
cultic formation.

Our primary concern has been with Christian Identity. David Neiwert
has accurately described its belief system as so far astray from those
of mainstream Christianity - and so repellant to average Americans -
that they induce in the religion's followers a cult-like closed
mind-set: a sense of persecution coupled with self-righteousness.
(Cited by Knickerbocker, 1999, p.2)

For those fired by the passions of prejudice, Posse Comitatus, Aryan
Nations, and the other groups on the supremacist right offer the
certainty of absolute conviction. They tantalize with a feast of
simple answers to complex problems. Above all, at long last, there
will be someone to blame. In the eyes of many, some answer, any
answer, is better than none. By comparison, most mainstream
politicians seem incapable of offering solutions. The simple
certainties of the far right often appear a welcome refuge from the
torrent of change engulfing the outside world. Just how many people
have been inspired in this way is a moot point. However, Rosemary
Ruether, a professor of applied theology, estimates that about 50,000
people call themselves Identity Christians (Cited by Knickerbocker,
1999, p.2). This is not an insignificant force. As Cox (1998) argues,
we should not underestimate what is a heavily armed and often
dangerous force, nor underestimate its ability to exploit anxieties
rampant in the wider society. For example, a key precursor of the
modern militia movement is the Ku Klux Klan. Its efforts are commonly
credited with securing the election of governors in Georgia, Alabama,
California, Indiana, and Oregon in the 1920s (Miller, 1958). Under
exceptional but quite imaginable circumstances, far right cults can
exercise an incendiary influence out of all proportion to their
numbers.

In particular, they can spew forth one man armies of the Rambo type,
fired by the passions of prejudice, equipped with the rudiments of an
ideology, and convinced that immediate action is vital to secure the
future of the white race. One example is that of Timothy McVeigh,
convicted for the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma. He was deeply influenced
by the theology of Christian Identity, and had photocopies of some
Identity writings in his possession when arrested. McVeigh is not
alone. He and others accused of domestic terrorism, such as Eric
Rudolph (wanted for the Centennial Park bombing at the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics), have been characterized as part of a "leaderless
resistance," and described by the chief of the FBI's domestic
terrorism unit as "the biggest threat right now" to national security
(Walsh, 2000, p.29).

Understanding the movement that inspired such people in terms of
cultic norms can form part of a wider attempt to create an educated
civil society within the United States. Such awareness implies the
toleration of dissent, uncertainty, and ambiguity in our society.
Without these, freedom and democracy give way to totalitarian mindsets
and possibly to authoritarian forms of social organization. Fanatical
organizations on the far right, however, have a wider agenda than
intense control over their own members. As we have seen, they wish to
impose a theocratic vision on the wider society. At present, their
chances of doing so are limited. Indeed, as Russell (1960, p.101)
observed in a wide ranging study of power, "The cases in which
fanaticism has brought nothing but disaster are much more numerous
than those in which it has brought temporary success." Fanaticism,
however, has also on occasion (and under certain conditions) been able
to conquer and hold state power for a significant period, as in
Germany during the 1930s.

It is in this direction, marching under flags of hate, that many of
those on the American far right have now turned their faces. The cult
awareness movement can make an important contribution to increased
understanding of the hazards this poses and to the creation of a more
educated civil society able to hold firm against the prophets of
apocalypse.

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Dennis Tourish, Ph.D. is a Reader in Communication Management at the
University of Aberdeen, in Scotland. He specializes in the study of
interpersonal and organizational communication, and of cults.

Tim Wohlforth is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, living in
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They are the joint authors of On the Edge: Political Cults Right and
Left, published by Sharpe, New York, 2000.

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I am not Christian Identity.
I acknowledge Jesus was born in the flesh as a Jew and that all of the first of
the 1st Century Christians were Jews (who gave up Pharisaic Judaism) and I don't
ever mention "Yahweh" nor do I claim 1st Century Christians were Aryans! Your
attempt to label me fails you devil!

Disclaimer: I have to make this known because of my critics and their
harsh judgment of what I post:
1) I am not out to save souls.
2) I am not trying to convert anyone.
3) I am not associated with Christian Identity
4) I am not a minister etc.
5) I am not the second coming
6) I don't even think I'm Jesus Christ
7) I have no church so:
a) I seek no members
b) I don't ask for money
8) I do study the Bible which is NOT a crime (for now)
9) I post material that is contiguous and not piecemeal scripture

YOU CAN'T REFUTE WHAT I POST SO ALL YOU HAVE IWS SMEAR YOU PUNK!!

Tavish

How First Century Christianity Was Treated by Jews:
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The first "Holocaust" was not Gentiles (Nazis) Against Jews
BUT was Jews (Communists) Against Christian Kulaks!!!
How Later Christianity was/is treated by Jews:
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Holocausts Jews have waged against non-Jews and Jewish denial of their
Holocausts against Christians/non-Jews:

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Feb 8, 2004, 12:57:30 PM2/8/04

On 8 Feb 2004 13:58:16 GMT, Fred Rutherford
<fred_rutherford@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html

>I am not Christian Identity.

>I acknowledge Jesus was born in the flesh as a Jew and that all of the first of
>the 1st Century Christians were Jews

The devil acknowledges that much, Son of Satan.

You are not a Christian and your appeals to the Bible fall flat.

As to what you are, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 6:50:26 PM2/11/04

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:57:30 GMT, <2ktc2051ins3hmdvm...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>On 8 Feb 2004 13:58:16 GMT, Fred Rutherford
><fred_rutherford@mayfield01net> wrote:
>
>
>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html
>
>>I am not Christian Identity.
>
>>I acknowledge Jesus was born in the flesh as a Jew and that all of the first of
>>the 1st Century Christians were Jews
>
>
>The devil acknowledges that much, Son of Satan.

How can I be a Child of Satan? The Children of the Devil or your friends hate me
as well as you hate me- their USEFUL IDIOT Goy.

--Devilish Satanic Children of the Devil and Anti-Christs Identified--
CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (BELIAL) IDENTIFIED:
John 8:
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came
from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I
say.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's
desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for
there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is
a liar and the father of lies.
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't
you believe me?
47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that
you do not belong to God."
48 The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan
and demon-possessed?"
49 "I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father and you
dishonor me..
ANTI-CHRISTS IDENTIFIED:
1 John 2: 18 "Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard
that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists."

1 John 2: 22,23 "Who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is
the Christ [or Messiah]? These things I write you about those who are trying to
mislead you!"

1 John 4: 2,3 "You gain knowledge of the inspired expression from God by this:
Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the
flesh originates with God, but every inspired expression that does not confess
Jesus does not originate with God, Furthermore this is the antichrist's inspired
expression which you have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world."

2 John 7,10,11 "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not
confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never
receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. For he that says a
greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Having any sympathy for the anti-Christ offspring of Belial (aka Lucifer) is
having SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (who is their proud father who inspires them)-
which is at its core demonic and un-Christian!
2 Corinthians 6:15 "What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does
a believer have in common with an unbeliever?"
http://www.belial.org/enbib/whois.htm (Archived locally as: belial_whois)
"...the ruler of all these newly-made demons was the Prince of Evil, known as
(among other things) Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan and Belial. The fallen angels,
who earlier had worked hard for God, became pure, independent and the foremost
enemies of the Christians."

>You are not a Christian and your appeals to the Bible fall flat.

Who are you to judge me you sharer in wicked works with the anti-Christs?

>As to what you are, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...

And you are a sharer in the wicked works of those who deny Christ!

I am glad that you and your Children of the Devil dislike me because if you all
did like me then that would mean I am not on the narrow road BUT I am on the
broad road and you know what Jesus said about false prophets and the two
different roads:

Luke 6:26 :: New International Version (NIV)
[Jesus declared]: "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how
their fathers treated the false prophets."

Matthew 7
13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road
that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few
find it.

Review:

Question for Ken Lewis- Do the people you side with confess "Jesus Christ as
coming in the flesh"? NO!! It is their choice however!

Also here is what the Apostle Paul stated which would indicate a
"Judeo/Christian Alliance" is definitely NOT God's Will:

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 :: King James Version (KJV)
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with
darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple
of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and
touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

Galatians 1:1,13,14 (English-RSV)
1 Paul an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus
Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--
13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted
the church of God violently and tried to destroy it;
14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my
people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Acts 26:1,4,5 (English-RSV)
1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak for yourself."
Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:
4 "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my
own nation and at Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.
5 They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify,
that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as
a Pharisee.

IOW the fact that you and your sniveling Pharisees dislike me means I am doing
something right and the fact that the clergy of Christendom is in a bosom
position and on a cordial relationship with the anti-Christs proves they have
left sound teachings long ago!

Matthew 5:20 :: New International Version (NIV)
For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees
and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23 :: New International Version (NIV)
1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2 "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat...
6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the
synagogues;
7 they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'
8 "But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you
are all brothers.

<Thus Jesus establishes who he was reviling-- the Pharisees who like being
addressed as "Rabbi.">

13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the
kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let
those enter who are trying to.
15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel
over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him
twice as much a son of hell as you are.

27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like
whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are
full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the
inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

29 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build
tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30 And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not
have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who
murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to
hell?
34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them
you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue
from town to town.
35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on
earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of
Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36 I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.

<Thus Jesus establishes who is accountable in God's eyes for blood guilt.

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37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to
you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers
her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.

39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord.'"

Matthew 24 :: New International Version (NIV)
1 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him
to call his attention to its buildings.
2 "Do you see all these things?" he asked. "I tell you the truth, not one stone
here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."

Name call and smear is all you have Ken Lewis which means you're running on
empty!

As for messages of hate how about what your Jews teach about non-Jews?

--Jewish Tradition will NEVER teach Non-Jews as being equals--
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What Jews teach about the rest of humanity behind closed doors is some real hate
and intolerance!!

Tavish

Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:08:22 PM2/11/04

On 11 Feb 2004 23:50:26 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:57:30 GMT, <2ktc2051ins3hmdvm...@4ax.com>
>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>On 8 Feb 2004 13:58:16 GMT, Fred Rutherford
>><fred_rutherford@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html

>>>I am not Christian Identity.

>>>I acknowledge Jesus was born in the flesh as a Jew and that all of the first of
>>>the 1st Century Christians were Jews

>>The devil acknowledges that much, Son of Satan.

>How can I be a Child of Satan? The Children of the Devil or your friends hate me
>as well as you hate me- their USEFUL IDIOT Goy.

How?

Matthew 7:16 - Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Matthew 7:20 - Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.

Galations 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control ..

Galations 5:26 - Let us not be desirious of vainglory, provoking one
another, envying one another.

You are not a Christian, Bradbury. No fruit equal no Spirit. No Spirit
equals not a Christian.

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:23:17 PM2/11/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:08:22 GMT, <m6gl20druujvv2ahr...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>On 11 Feb 2004 23:50:26 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
><beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:57:30 GMT, <2ktc2051ins3hmdvm...@4ax.com>
>>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:
>
>>>On 8 Feb 2004 13:58:16 GMT, Fred Rutherford
>>><fred_rutherford@mayfield01net> wrote:
>
>>>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html
>
>>>>I am not Christian Identity.
>
>>>>I acknowledge Jesus was born in the flesh as a Jew and that all of the first of
>>>>the 1st Century Christians were Jews
>
>>>The devil acknowledges that much, Son of Satan.
>
>>How can I be a Child of Satan? The Children of the Devil or your friends hate me
>>as well as you hate me- their USEFUL IDIOT Goy.
>
>How?
>
>Matthew 7:16 - Ye shall know them by their fruits.
>Matthew 7:20 - Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.
>
>Galations 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
>long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control ..
>
>Galations 5:26 - Let us not be desirious of vainglory, provoking one
>another, envying one another.
>
>You are not a Christian, Bradbury. No fruit equal no Spirit. No Spirit
>equals not a Christian.

Who are you to judge me as to whether I have the fruits of the spirit or not?
FOR A FACT YOU ARE ALLIED WITH THE ANTI-CHRIST CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL AGAINSYT
ME!! You claim I am a Child of Satan yet if I were you would love me along with
the other Children of Satan who Jesus plainly identified! You are also spreading
lies about me which is another work of Satan!

Review:

Tavish

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Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:27:40 PM2/11/04

On 12 Feb 2004 00:23:17 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>>>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html

>>How?

Jesus said "Ye shall know them by their fruit.' He meant for us to
judge the message and its carrier. You have been judged and found
wanting, Bradbury.

Quote scripture all you want. Your father the devil does the same. You
are not a Christian as your works make so evident.

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:39:02 PM2/11/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:27:40 GMT, <vvhl201ao67aglu3f...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

If you observed that then you would avoid all those who share in the wicked
works of the anti-Christs as stated here:

ANTI-CHRISTS IDENTIFIED:
1 John 2: 18 "Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard
that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists."

1 John 2: 22,23 "Who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is
the Christ [or Messiah]? These things I write you about those who are trying to
mislead you!"

2 John 7,10,11 "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not

confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never
receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. For he that says a
greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."

>You have been judged and found wanting, Bradbury.

Judged by YOU and who set you up to judge me!? There is only ONE who will
judge me and all other people for that matter and it surely isn't you- you
self righteous little sniveling Pharisee wannabee

>Quote scripture all you want. Your father the devil does the same.

If my father were the devil you would love me along with the rest of the devil's
children you side with:

>You are not a Christian as your works make so evident.

My works expose the lies of the Children of the Devil which works you and your
fellows greatly approve of and defend!

I.E.

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How First Century Christianity Was Treated by Jews:

Tavish

Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:45:59 PM2/11/04

On 12 Feb 2004 00:39:02 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>>>>>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html

>>>>How?

He was speaking of evil filth such as yourself, Bradbury. And I will
not avoid filth like you. I will be here until my dying breath
exposing hateful, ignorant bigot's like you.

You are not a Christian and there is a special place in hell reserved
for evil, twisted false prophets like you.

Burn Baby Burn

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:50:03 PM2/11/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:45:59 GMT, <c0jl205ll91d4t79v...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

My oh my but you are filled with hate and as for some real hateful bigotry:

--Jewish Tradition will NEVER teach Non-Jews as being equals--

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Tavish

Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 7:53:57 PM2/11/04

On 12 Feb 2004 00:50:03 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>>>>>>>>>http://www.rickross.com/reference/christian_identity/christianidentity19.html

>>>>>>How?

Not, stupid. I am trying to WAKE YOU UP. You are evil. The child of
Satan. Wake up before it is too late.

I repeat for the umpteenth time. You are not a christian and your evil
twisting of scripture proves it.

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 8:55:42 PM2/11/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:53:57 GMT, <vgjl2094s5c6kc0i2...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>Not, stupid. I am trying to WAKE YOU UP. You are evil. The child of
>Satan.

If my father were the devil you would love me along with the rest of the devil's
children you side with:

CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (BELIAL) IDENTIFIED:

John 8:
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came
from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I
say.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's
desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for
there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is
a liar and the father of lies.
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't
you believe me?
47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that
you do not belong to God."
48 The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan
and demon-possessed?"
49 "I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father and you
dishonor me..

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Tavish

Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 9:05:05 PM2/11/04

On 12 Feb 2004 01:55:42 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:53:57 GMT, <vgjl2094s5c6kc0i2...@4ax.com>
>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>Not, stupid. I am trying to WAKE YOU UP. You are evil. The child of
>>Satan.

>If my father were the devil you would love me along with the rest of the devil's
>children you side with:

So your acute stupidity keeps leading you to post but sadly for you it
isn't true. You are the child of your father Satan, Bradbury. You are
evil incarnate.

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 11, 2004, 11:06:29 PM2/11/04

CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (BELIAL) IDENTIFIED:

Ken Lewis

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Feb 11, 2004, 11:21:20 PM2/11/04

On 12 Feb 2004 04:06:29 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:05:05 GMT, <7onl20tns63e027t8...@4ax.com>
>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>On 12 Feb 2004 01:55:42 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
>><beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>>>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:53:57 GMT, <vgjl2094s5c6kc0i2...@4ax.com>
>>>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>>>Not, stupid. I am trying to WAKE YOU UP. You are evil. The child of
>>>>Satan.

>>>If my father were the devil you would love me along with the rest of the devil's
>>>children you side with:

>>So your acute stupidity keeps leading you to post but sadly for you it
>>isn't true. You are the child of your father Satan, Bradbury. You are
>>evil incarnate.

>If my father were the devil you would love me along with the rest of the devil's
>children you side with:

The evil is you, Child of Satan.

Besides, you have a face that not even your mother could love. How did
you get to be so ugly! Whew!

Patrick Lee Humphrey

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Feb 12, 2004, 12:22:44 AM2/12/04

Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> writes:

>How?

He's no Christian, but he *is* a certifiable fruitcake, and the countdown
continues -- 66 days...

--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (pat...@io.com) Houston, Texas
www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2003-04 Houston Aeros)

Joebruno

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Feb 12, 2004, 10:53:18 AM2/12/04

Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote in message news:<m6gl20druujvv2ahr...@4ax.com>...
>

Are you sure Satan will agree to this?Even he has some pride.

Quintal

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Feb 12, 2004, 12:33:03 PM2/12/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:45:59 GMT, Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca>
wrote:

lol you're the one talking about the fruits of kindness and such?
lmao
youre no christian either by your own terms
welcome son of satan lol

>
>
>
>

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 12, 2004, 1:54:07 PM2/12/04

Better watch out Quintal- the Pharisees will hunt you down and get your address
and phone number and be posting it such as they did to me. A Pharisee abused the
legal system to subpoena my ISP for my identity, address, and telephone number
way back in December 1999 and the Pharisees have been harassing me since! They
hate their lies and hypocrisy exposed!

Tavish

ANTI-CHRISTS IDENTIFIED:
1 John 2: 18 "Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard
that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists."

1 John 2: 22,23 "Who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is
the Christ [or Messiah]? These things I write you about those who are trying to
mislead you!"
1 John 4: 2,3 "You gain knowledge of the inspired expression from God by this:
Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the
flesh originates with God, but every inspired expression that does not confess
Jesus does not originate with God, Furthermore this is the antichrist's inspired
expression which you have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world."
2 John 7,10,11 "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not
confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never
receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. For he that says a
greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Having any sympathy for the anti-Christ offspring of Belial (aka Lucifer) is
having SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (who is their proud father who inspires them)-
which is at its core demonic and un-Christian!

Judges 20:13 "Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which
are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel."

2 Corinthians 6:15 "What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does
a believer have in common with an unbeliever?"
http://www.belial.org/enbib/whois.htm (Archived locally as: belial_whois)
"...the ruler of all these newly-made demons was the Prince of Evil, known as
(among other things) Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan and Belial. The fallen angels,
who earlier had worked hard for God, became pure, independent and the foremost
enemies of the Christians."

_______________________________________________________________________________

Ken Lewis

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Feb 12, 2004, 2:07:49 PM2/12/04

On 12 Feb 2004 18:54:07 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

Nope. Wrong again, Shithead. It is only done to you because you do it
to others.

Beaver Cleaver

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Feb 13, 2004, 1:33:17 AM2/13/04

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:07:49 GMT, <6njn2053bfrct74j3...@4ax.com>
Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>Better watch out Quintal- the Pharisees will hunt you down and get your address
>>and phone number and be posting it such as they did to me.
>
>Nope. Wrong again, Shithead. It is only done to you because you do it
>to others.

AFTER they did it to me you shithead!

Ken Lewis

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Feb 13, 2004, 2:24:20 AM2/13/04

On 13 Feb 2004 06:33:17 GMT, Beaver Cleaver
<beaver_cleaver@mayfield01net> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:07:49 GMT, <6njn2053bfrct74j3...@4ax.com>
>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>>Better watch out Quintal- the Pharisees will hunt you down and get your address
>>>and phone number and be posting it such as they did to me.

>>Nope. Wrong again, Shithead. It is only done to you because you do it
>>to others.

>AFTER they did it to me you shithead!

Nope. Sorry, Bradshit. You are still lying. It was Donnie and Pat who
did it to you. They did it to you some 3,420 times by Googles count.

But, hey, stay stupid. After all, being stupid is something you do
very well.

Roger

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Feb 13, 2004, 8:09:11 AM2/13/04

In one age, called the Second Age by some,
(an Age yet to come, an Age long past)
someone claiming to be Beaver Cleaver wrote
in message <a1so20556jhq1k073...@4ax.com>:

>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:07:49 GMT, <6njn2053bfrct74j3...@4ax.com>
>Ken Lewis <kml...@nospam.shaww.ca> wrote:

>>Nope. Wrong again, Shithead. It is only done to you because you do it
>>to others.

>AFTER they did it to me you shithead!

But "they" aren't the ones whose addresses you obsessively repost,
Shame of Belleville -- I've yet to see you put up the Ellis
collective's information. You probably have it from the horses ass'
mouth too, don't you?

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