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Line 4: − − Lenny Zeskind, research director of the Center for Democratic Renewal: "Identity is based on the premise that the Jews are literally Children of Satan - the seed of Cain, that people of color are 'pre-Adamic' mud people - God's failures before perfecting Adam, and that white Christian Aryans are the 'Lost Sheep of the House of Israel' - God's chosen people, and therefore America is the biblical promised land... Christian Identity binds together a number of previously isolated groups...Important sections of the [[Ku Klux Klan]], the [[neo-Nazi]] movement, the [[Posse Comitatus]], the [[Aryan Nations]], and other groups have adopted Identity theology."<ref>Berlet, Chip [http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/idennlns.html ''A New Face for Racism & Fascism''] Political research associates. Accessed 1 march 2008</ref>
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==Background==
==Background==
The religion grew from '''British-Israelism''' and moved to the [[United States]] in the 1930s, becoming increasingly [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] under the leadership of [[Wesley Swift]] who founded the [[Church of Jesus Christ Christian]]. Within Christian Identity some adherents believe in Swift's "two-seed" theory that the [[seduction of Eve]] by the Serpent was sexual, resulting in the conception of [[Cain]] who was the father of the Jewish people; thus all Jews are descendants of the devil. Some Identity adherents assert a "one-seed" theory. The religion also incorporates [[millennialism]] or the belief that the world is in its final days.
The religion grew from '''British-Israelism''' and moved to the [[United States]] in the 1930s, becoming increasingly [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] under the leadership of [[Wesley Swift]] who founded the [[Church of Jesus Christ Christian]]. Within Christian Identity some adherents believe in Swift's "two-seed" theory that the [[seduction of Eve]] by the Serpent was sexual, resulting in the conception of [[Cain]] who was the father of the Jewish people; thus all Jews are descendants of the devil. Some Identity adherents assert a "one-seed" theory. The religion also incorporates [[millennialism]] or the belief that the world is in its final days.
Many Identity adherents believe Jews, blacks, [[Communism|communists]], [[Homosexuality|homosexuals]] and race-traitors have seized control of the United States. They refer to [[Washington, D.C.]] as the '''Zionist Occupational Government''' (ZOG). The novel "''[[The Turner Diaries]]''" in which an underground white army leads a revolution against ZOG is popular among them.
Many Identity adherents believe Jews, blacks, [[Communism|communists]], [[Homosexuality|homosexuals]] and race-traitors have seized control of the United States. They refer to [[Washington, D.C.]] as the '''Zionist Occupational Government''' (ZOG). The novel "''[[The Turner Diaries]]''" in which an underground white army leads a revolution against ZOG is popular among them.