Aryan Nations

Aryan Nations

Aryan Nations was founded past times Richard Girnt Butler inwards the 1970s every bit the political arm of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian, percentage of the religious drive called Christian Identity. Aryan Warriors, every bit they are called, believe it is their duty to grapple for the preservation of the Aryan race against the scourge of international Jewish communism, which they believe seeks the devastation of the white race.

Butler was an associate of Wesley Swift—the founder of the master copy Church of Jesus Christ Christian inwards 1946 together with Christian Identity’s nearly successful proponent. Butler’s destination for Aryan Nations has long been to construct a white homeland inwards the northwest of the United States.

Aryan Nations reached its peak of popularity together with influence inwards the mid-1980s, next years of inflation, sluggish economical growth, together with the farm crisis. The grouping occupied a forty-acre chemical compound inwards northern Idaho, which was known past times many inwards the survivalist correct every bit the international headquarters of white nationalism.


By 1986, Aryan Nations claimed over 6,000 members nationwide, had created 18 Earth offices, together with began hosting the Aryan World Congress, an annual convention of Ku Klux Klan members, skinheads, together with diverse other neo-Nazis. Like nearly Identity Christians, Butler preaches that solely Aryans are descended from Adam together with are engaged inwards a millennial struggle against the forces of darkness, the Jews.

Jews are the literal children of Satan, the descendants of Cain, who was the offspring of Eve’s physical seduction past times Satan. By controlling the international banking arrangement together with promoting such practices every bit abortion together with intermarriage, “world Jewry” is gradually forcing the extinction of the white race. According to the Aryan Nations platform, “The Jew is similar a destroying virus that attacks our racial trunk to destroy our Aryan civilization together with the purity of our Race.”

Consequently, Aryan Warriors laid upwardly for a coming race war, “a twenty-four hours of reckoning” when the enemy volition survive defeated together with Christ volition constitute his truthful kingdom on earth. In 2000, Aryan Nations was forced into bankruptcy together with the sale of its chemical compound together with refer afterward a jury awarded over vi 1000000 dollars inwards a case brought past times Victoria together with Jason Keenan.

The Keenans claimed that they had been assaulted together with shot at past times safety guards exterior the Aryan Nations Idaho compound. Although its futurity is inwards doubt, several sometime Aryan Nations members accept founded splinter groups, together with the aging Butler, straight off good into his seventies, has named a successor together with insists the grouping volition rebuild.