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Elohim City is a private community in Adair County, Oklahoma. The rural retreat was founded in 1973 by Robert G. Millar, a Canadian immigrant, former Mennonite and important leader in America's Christian Identity movement, a theology common to an assortment of right-wing extremist groups.〔 The community gained national attention for its alleged ties to members of the Silent Brotherhood in the 1980s and with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in the 1990s. Robert G. Millar (born August 16, 1925) died on May 28, 2001. Since his death, his son John Millar has been the leader of Elohim City. ''Elohim'' is a Hebrew word to be translated as "God" or "Gods" (Because in Hebrew, "''-im''" ending is common as plural masculine substantive nouns). ==Background== Millar emigrated from Kitchener, Ontario in the 1950s to Oklahoma City, where he established a church.〔 In the mid-1960s, Millar moved to Maryland, where he ran an evangelical camp near Ellicott City,〔 located in Howard County on Frederick Road about one mile (1.6 km) west of US Route 29, at the former location of St. Charles College, a minor Catholic seminary destroyed by fire in 1911.〔Charles Belfoure, ("Outside Baltimore, a Reach Back to the 19th Century" ), ''New York Times'', December 12, 1999.〕〔The area, which was rural until the 1980s, has since been developed into a suburban housing community. The ruins of the seminary's recreation hall are now located in the middle of Terra Maria Way circle (). See () and ().〕 In 1973, Millar returned to Oklahoma with around 18 followers, some of whom were related to him by birth or marriage, to found Elohim City.〔 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「Elohim City, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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