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Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) (CI) holds that the ancient Israelites are the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Nordic and kindred peoples of the world and are the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is not an organized religion but is instead composed of individuals, churches and some prison gangs with a white supremacist theology that promotes a racial interpretation of Christianity. Christian Identity beliefs were primarily developed and promoted by two authors who considered Europeans to be the "chosen people" and the Jews were considered to be the cursed offspring of Cain. Many of these teachings were later adopted by white supremacist sects and gangs. An early Christian Identity teacher, Wesley Swift, formulated the doctrine that non-Caucasian peoples have no souls and therefore can never earn God's favor or be saved. Other notable Christian Identity scholars/teachers include Bertrand Comparet (1933–1983), an attorney admitted to the California Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, and who was a Deputy District Attorney in San Diego County and Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Diego; Lt. Col. Gordon "Jack" Mohr (1916–2003); and Col. William Potter Gale (1916–1988), who served under General MacArthur in WWII and retired from Hughes Aircraft to become a Christian Identity minister in 1956. Some of Christian Identity's ideas have roots in British Israelism, which teaches that many white Europeans are the literal descendants of the Israelites through the ten tribes that were taken away into captivity by the armies of Assyria. British Israelism teaches that these white European Israelites are still God's chosen people and that Jesus was an Israelite of the tribe of Judah but differs from Christian Identity by teaching the contemporary Jews are descended from the Tribe of Judah. Christian Identity deviates from British Israelism by asserting that the Tribe of Judah was also carried away captive from their homeland and displaced by Caananites, Edomites, Hittites, etc., who occupied Judea after Judah was removed from the territory and were called Jews because they lived in the land of Judea, not because they were descendants of Judah. Thus, they teach the modern Jews are neither Israelites nor Hebrews but are instead descended from people with Turco-Mongolian blood, or Khazars, or are descendants of the biblical Esau-Edom, who traded his birthright for a bowl of red stew ((Genesis 25:29–34 )) and mixed his seed line by taking a Canaanite ((Genesis 36:2–6 )) and Hittite as wives ((Genesis 26:34 )). The Christian Identity movement first received widespread attention by mainstream media in 1984, when the white nationalist organization known as The Order embarked on a murderous crime spree before being taken down by the FBI. Tax resister and militia movement organizer Gordon Kahl, whose death in a 1983 shootout with authorities helped inspire The Order, also had connections to the Christian Identity movement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sovereign Citizen Movement – Extremism in America )〕 The movement returned to public attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the deadly Ruby Ridge confrontation, when newspapers discovered that former Green Beret and right-wing separatist Randy Weaver had at least a loose association with Christian Identity believers. No single document expresses the Christian Identity belief system and there is much disagreement in the doctrines being taught by those ascribing to CI beliefs since there is no central organization or headquarters for the CI church. Most CI adherents study the scriptures in-depth for themselves and arrive at their own system of beliefs and doctrines. They also draw upon arguments from linguistic, historical, archaeological and biblical sources to support their beliefs, such as the Behistun Inscription and the Assyrian Tablets. Some CI groups teach a dual seedline doctrine while other CI teachers reject the dual seedline teachings. Some believe in a literal Satan while others do not. Id. But all CI adherents believe Adam and his offspring were exclusively White and that the other races are separate species, which cannot be equated with or derived from the Adamites. CI adherents cite passages from the Old Testament, including Ezr 9:2,12 and Neh 13:27, which they claim contain injunctions by Yahweh against interracial marriages. These groups are estimated to have 2,000 members in the United States, and an unknown number in Canada and the rest of the British Commonwealth. Due to the promotion of Christian Identity doctrines through radio and later the Internet, an additional 50,000 unaffiliated individuals are thought to hold Christian Identity beliefs.〔 The primary spread of Christian Identity teachings is believed to be through white supremacist prison gangs.〔 Christian Identity believers reject the doctrines of most contemporary Christian denominations and believe the teaching—that God's promises to Israel (through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) has been expanded to create a spiritual people of "Israel",i.e., the Christian Church—is heresy. In turn, most modern Christian denominations and organizations denounce Christian Identity as heresy and condemn the use of the Christian Bible as a basis for promoting white supremacy and antisemitism. Adherents of Christian Identity claim that Europeans are the true descendants of the biblical Jacob, based on the Bible's teachings that the Israelites migrated north through the Caucasus Mountains, settling throughout Europe and were thus called "Caucasians" and are the true Israel, i.e., those that keep the Commandments and the testimony of Jesus Christ (Rev 12:17), which the contemporary Jews do not and thus could not be the Israelites. Hence, Christian Identity adherents claim it is those who are against the interests of European-descended Christians that are the true anti-Semites. ==Origins== Christian Identity as a movement emerged as an offshoot sect of British Israelism in the 1920s and 1930s.〔''Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement'', Michael Barkun, 1997, Preface, xii, xiii.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christian Identity )〕 However, the idea that "lower races" are mentioned in the Bible (in contrast to Aryans) was posited in the 1905 book "Theozoology; or The Science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron" by Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels, a volkisch writer seen by many historians as a major influence on Nazism. Hitler, however, did not subscribe to the belief that the Israelites of the Bible were actually Aryans; in a speech he gave in Munich in 1922 titled "Why We Are Anti-Semites", he referred to and disparaged Abraham as racially Jewish. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Identity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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