Book I - Comparative Religions  Part IX -  British Israel - Identity 
  
  A Vice-President in charge of advertising for a large cosmetics firm was  chatting with a friend, exchanging a little banter over a few drinks. 
  
"How can you make such fantastic claims for your cosmetics?" asked  the friend. 
  
"It's easy," replied the V. P. "We just lie like hell." 
  
"But how do you get away with it?" 
  
"No problem," replied the V. P. "The women desperately want to  believe that our face creams and lotions and potions will do all those  wonderful things for them. So they just buy,  buy, buy. They're happy, and we make millions." 
  
  This brings us to the subject I want to expose and examine in more detail,  namely, the art of spook-peddling, which is even more profitable and  more deceptive than promoting cosmetics. 
  
  Today, with the aid of the electronic Jew, one of the most lucrative (and  deceptive) rackets on the modern scene is the nefarious art of peddling  spooks in return for millions. It is a  con-game without parallel. We have such unholy con-artists as Oral Roberts, Rex  Humbard, Jerry Falwell,  Garner Ted  Armstrong, Billy Hargis, Billy Graham, Jimmy Swaggert, Pat Robertson, Jim  Bakker, Robert Schuller, and the late, great Jim Jones  of Guyana fame, and slews of lesser con-men on  the boob-tube selling the spooks-in-the-sky swindle, day in and day out. Many  of these top-  notch con-artists take in forty,  fifty and sixty million dollars of funny money a year. Federal Reserve notes  that are as phony as the lies these  swindlers  are peddling to their gullible victims. With or without the electronic boob-  tube, this racket has been going on for thousands of years. 
  
  However, in the last century or so a new breed of purveyors has been emerging  that has given the standard hellfire and brimstone crowd a new  twist, and that is the British-Israel wing,  also known as the Identity movement. Since the accompanying Liberty Bell  article gives a scholarly  history of  this movement, I need not repeat it here, but rather I want to focus on the  impact it has had, and is having today, in the crucial battle  for the survival of the White Race. 
  
  Some of these Christians, those who have discovered what skillful and  congenital liars the Jews are, of how obnoxious and repugnant they  have been throughout history, found themselves  in a serious dilemma. Since most of their precious bible is Jewish from cover  to cover and  keeps gushing repeatedly  about Yahweh's endless and palpitating love affair with these despicable  reprobates, they found this hard to take. So  some ingenious inventor came up with a  brilliant new twist. Why not claim that the Jews are not at all the real  Israelites, but children of the  Devil,  and we, the White Race are the genuine article. Why, with a little sleight of  hand, some clever juxtapositioning and a lot of gullibility, we  can claim that the 'Ten Lost Tribes of  Israel" wandered into an uninhabited Europe sometime in the first  millennium B.C.E. and rapidly  populated  it from one end to the other. Isn't that wonderful? Now we, the White Race, can  claim that we are the real Israelites and the scurvy  Jews are nothing but phony impostors. Isn't  that great? (Why, with the same procedure, you could be Napoleon Bonaparte  reincarnated. All it  takes is a little  bit of INSANITY.) Ipso facto, the problem is solved. Now WE are the ones that  the Yahweh of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob so  dearly loved that he would knock himself silly  in order to ingratiate himself with these reprobates that had all the morals of  an alley cat. How  lucky can you get? 
  
  In a nutshell, that is the position of the Identity movement. 
  
  There are so many misconceptions contained in the fraudulent assumptions of the  Identity movement that it is hard to list them all. But I will try  to sort them out. 
  
  (1) There is not a shred of evidence that the Jewish tribal god of Yahweh  existed in the supposed time of Abie, Ikey, and Jakey, or exists today,  anymore than that Santa Claus or Mother Goose  exists, or existed. 
  
  (2) There is not a shred of evidence that Abraham, Isaac or Jacob (or Moses,  for that matter) ever existed, and all indications are that they are  no more than fictitious figments of the Jewish  imagination. 
  
  (3) There is not a shred of historical evidence that there ever were any Ten  Lost Tribes, and if they ever existed and got lost, all I can say is  GOOD RIDDANCE. Too bad the other two didn't  disappear also. 
  
  (4) It is absolutely preposterous to claim that Europe was an empty wasteland  until the "Lost Ten Tribes of Israel" entered into it and suddenly  populated it. It is contrary to Greek history.  Roman history, Celtic history. Prankish history, Teutonic history and all other  authentic history. It  also contradicts  all archaeological evidence that has been unearthed in the last several  centuries, including cave drawings in France, Spain  and other parts of Europe. Many of these  artifacts and drawings by our White European ancestors date back as much as 20  thousand years.  For a thorough  anthropological study of our ancestry, I suggest you read the November issue of  National Geographic. Also Madison Grant's  classic, "Passing of the Great Race"  is an excellent treatment on the subject of racial movement in prehistoric  Europe. 
  
  (5) We now come to the final question: considering what sleazy characters  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were, according to the highly touted Old  Testament itself, who but a deranged idiot  WOULD WANT to have these lecherous pimps, murderers and whoremongers for their  ancestors? I  would much prefer to have a  set of genuine old-fashioned horse thieves for my progenitors than these sleazy  Jewish reprobates. 
  
  Besides being a shiftless nonentity at the age of 75, Abraham (so the stupid  story goes) was a footloose pimp who peddled his (half-sister) wife  to the highest bidder, not only once, but  repeatedly, for ill-begotten loot. He murdered a number of people. He  fornicated with his maid. He and  Sarah  had their first child when both were ninety-nine. (Would you believe?) Isaac  followed a similar pattern. Jacob deceived his senile, blind  father and betrayed his brother Esau, all with  Yahweh's explicit blessings. Then there is that great Lion of Israel, Judah,  who fornicated with his  daughter-in-law  believing she was a common roadside whore. There is the big Star of the Show,  King David, who while wooing King Saul's 
  
  daughter Michal, brought a dowry of two  hundred foreskins from slain Philistine warriors to Saul. (Read it for  yourself: I Samuel, Ch. 18, Verse  27.)  For more sick, lurid details read Chapter 10, "The Old Testament" in Nature's  Eternal Religion. 
  
  Now I ask any sane, intelligent White Man who has not yet gone bonkers in the  name of Yahweh, why would you want to break your neck to  distort history and WANT to be a descendant of  such trash that even the morals of an alley cat would be put to shame? I would  say that no  sane, self-respecting White  Man would. We now come to the next cogent question: Why should we Creators, who  are totally dedicated to the  survival,  expansion and advancement of the White Race be particularly concerned about  those misguided souls that believe in British-Israel?  After all, they constitute only a minor  percentage of the Christian population, perhaps less than one percent. 
  
  Well, there are good and sufficient reasons why we should be concerned. Whereas  the overwhelming majority of White Christians do not  believe they are the "real  Israelites", the average run of Christians are the poorest of all  prospects for building a White racial movement. For all  practical purposes, the gung-ho Christian is  unreachable for the present. The Identity crowd, on the other hand, are a  different breed of cat.  They crave  Identity as a member of the White Race and arc therefore the type of people the  White Race needs to save itself. The big problem  is they want to keep their hang-up with the  Jewish spooks intact at the same time, a frustrating dilemma that splits their  loyalty straight down  the middle. We  therefore have dual loyalists (as the SPOTLIGHT calls the Jews) that claim to be  for the White Race, but also for the Jewish  spook - an impossible incongruity. In so doing  they confuse the hell out of those White racists that could effectively help  wage the war for the  survival and  resurrection of the White Race, 
  
  Not only do they vastly confuse the issue, but these befuddled spook-chasers  hate us rational White Loyalists much more passionately than  they hate the Jews. Why? Because the Jews  claim to believe in some kind of spook, even if they don't believe in Jesus  Christ, so they can be  forgiven. But we  Creators oy vey! That is a different story. We cut the very ground out from  under them that supports their favorite hang-up  their personal Holy Cow. We demolish with  sheer rationality all this intoxicating nonsense about spooks all around us,  surveilling us, monitoring  us, judging  us, burning us in Hell. It makes them insanely furious that we expose and  ridicule their cherished escape into insanity, and they  would gladly burn us in Hell if they could, as  witness the letter from Bishop Grant R. Powell, which we publish on a previous  page. Is there  anyone more vicious, more  sadistic, more hateful than a born-again Christian? I think not. 
  
  I remember a meeting I attended in Kansas City in 1 977. There was good old  Gerda Koch expounding on how our country and our constitution  were solidly built on the Christian Bible, an  idea thoroughly repudiated by the Founding Fathers, who were determined to keep  the church out  of government. However,  as she fixed her baleful eye on me, her main invective was directed against  those miscreants who did not "believe" in  the supernatural. 
  
  Then there is the Rev. Richard Butler, who with an engineering background  should know better. As head of "Aryan Nations" he is pursuing the  "Dual Loyalist" course of a true  hypocrite, subservient to the Jew-concocted spooks and White racism, two  completely conflicting and  diametrically  opposed concepts. But when it comes to those who would fight for and pursue a  rational and well structured creed and program  for White survival without dragging all this  damn spooks clutter along with us, why, then all hell breaks loose, and there  is no fury equal to that  of a  spook-chaser spurned. 
  
  It is the position of the Church of the Creator that the fight for survival against  overwhelming odds is going to be fierce and drastic enough as it  is, without weighing ourselves down with a lot  of unnecessary clutter and tying our hands behind our back. (See "Self-  imposed Handicap",  Issue No. 6,  EXPANDING CREATIVITY.) Who needs all this confusion, clutter and bickering that  the Christians themselves haven't been able  to reconcile for the last 18 centuries. We  sure as hell don't, and it must (and will!) be our continuing pro-gram to purge  the White Man's mind of  all this Jewish  trash and rubbish. 
  
  At this point I would like to ask every White Man to ask his own conscience  this categorical question: What is so great in having "deep and  abiding faith" in wine "belief that  is founded on neither fact nor logic? For example, could any thinking man have  anything other than pity and  contempt  for a Hindu who insisted in believing cows are holy? Or a Christian, who  "believes" in spooks in the sky that no one in all history has  ever seen, heard, felt or smelt? Or an  Identity fanatic, who will persist in claiming that the mythical "Ten Lost  Tribes of Israel" populated Europe  in  short order and are our ancestors, when every piece of archaeological evidence,  every written manuscript of history, categorically refutes  such nonsense? 
  
  We Creators are sick and tired of putting up with such idiots who will indulge  in such obvious insanities, and expect that we will "respect" their  "beliefs". 
  
  Frankly, we have no intention of doing so, or even tolerating such nonsense  anymore than we intend to respect a Hindu's "belief that cows are  holy. Facts are facts, evidence is evidence,  and nonsense is nonsense. Pity the poor bastard who can't tell the difference.  We will use our  intelligence and our  good judgment in the area of religion just as we will in any other. We will  praise and commend good common sense, and  we will ridicule and condemn any person, idea  or movement that we find is based on nothing more than a nonsensical  "belief. 
  
  But let us look further into the claims and character of the prestigious Rev.  Richard Butler. 
  
  Recently a young man came all the way from the state of Washington to visit us  at our World Headquarters. He had been working with the  Jews in Hollywood when he slowly became aware  of what an odious and repugnant bunch they were, which, in turn, alerted his  racial  consciousness. Moving to Spokane,  Washington, he became aware of the Aryan Nations group, who further aroused his  racial loyalty.  Someone gave him a copy  of The White Man's Bible, which he read with considerable interest. When he  asked the Rev. Butler about this book,  the  latter, avid Christian that he is, immediately responded with contempt,  "Oh, Klassen, he's a Jew! He's an atheist! He's got to be a Jew!" 
  
  Now, Christians brag' about their veracity, their kindness and charity. The  Rev. Butler flagrantly violated all these tenets out of hand, without  giving it a second thought, confirming what I  have always contended: Never trust a Christian. Anyone who would lie to himself  will repeatedly  lie to others. 
  
  The facts are Klassen is a CREATOR, not an atheist, anymore than Butler is an  infidel dog (according to the Moslem view). Nor is Klassen a 
  Jew, anymore than Butler is a black  nigger. (Should Butler, in fact, be a nigger, I will retract that statement.)  The Rev. Butler had every  opportunity in  the world to check my racial genealogy before disseminating such a derogatory  lie. But he didn't bother. He evidently felt he had  to protect his "Identity" hang-up at  ail costs, and lying about someone else evidently presented no problem. As I  said before - anyone who will  lie to  himself.... 
  
  There are those confused and well meaning Individuals who will say - let's not  bring up religion. Let's all just get together and fight the Jews.  Maybe even the niggers and the Mexicans.  Everyone's "religious faith" is a private matter and let's leave well  enough alone. 
  
  Sounds good. But it doesn't work that way. Anyone's private "faith"  is very much a concern in a life and death battle for the survival of our race.   For instance, would you join hands with  a White Man whose "private faith" was communism? Or if he belonged to  the Black Muslims? Or if he  was a  dedicated Mooney? Or if he embraced Judaism? Or, like Jerry Falwell and his  ilk, was an Israel Firster? 
  
  No, I would not. There is nothing more dangerous than having a schizophrenic  with a split loyalty in your ranks and having to depend on him in  time of crisis. And that is exactly what the  Identity crowd is. They are hypocrites with a dual loyalty that is split  between loyalty to the White  Race and  loyalty to Jewish Christianity, two diametrically opposed concepts that are  fundamentally hostile to each other. The Billy Grahams,  the Jerry Falwells and the rest of their ilk,  at least we know where they stand, and we won't ever entertain any trust in them.  But the Identity  crowd is even more  dangerous because they would deceive us by pretending they are on our side. But  we Creators don't believe them. Comes  der  Crunch, and they will opt for the rapture, Jesus Christ, Yahweh and all the  rest of that clutter. So we are their enemies, and they are ours.  The sooner we realize this, the clearer will  be our thinking, and the better off we will all be. I have no illusions about  straightening out the  confused clutter  in the minds of such as the Rev. Richard Butler. Like concrete, their minds are  all mixed up and hard set. He and his kind are a  lost cause. However, it is the younger set  like the young man that came to us, whose minds are still open and receptive, it  Is to these we  appeal. 
  
  We say to them: dump all this Jewish Christianity and its accompanying garbage.  Join with us in a rational hard-hitting White racial religion that  if dedicated to the survival, expansion and  advancement of the White Race, and the White Race alone. It is well structured,  it is clear, it is  complete, it is  comprehensive. It is specifically designed to overcome the treacherous Jewish  network and again make the White Race the  pride and epitome of Nature's Realm. 
  
  Can we do it? You damn right we can, and we will. We now have in our hands the  blueprint and the tools to do it with. If we distribute and place  in the hands of our White Racial Comrades as  few as 1 million copies of our White Man's Bibles, not only the battle, but  also the whole war  will be won, once and  for all. And believe me, it will be the biggest bargain the White Race ever  bought for itself. We spend more in one day,  than the 1 million Bibles would cost, on  subsidizing the free-loading niggers in our midst, not to mention Israel, the  Jews and all the other  parasites on a  global scale. 
  
  Once the CREATIVITY idea has permeated the White Man's mind, the battle will be  over for all time. We will then be able to save our ecology,  save our land, save our planet and get on with  the long term job of up-breeding and advancement of our precious race. 
  
  We have ample means with which to do the job - so let's get with it! (Read  again Issue No. 9, "We Are Not Helpless," in EXPANDING  CREATIVITY.) 
  
  Identity vs. Creativity - A Comparison 
  
  A. Basis of Belief. 
  
  The Identity movement is a fragmented, loose and scattered conglomerate, and no  specific set of beliefs would accurately characterize all of its  many parts. The best we can do, therefore, is  to generalize, and in so doing we can state two beliefs that the many  fragmentary groups have in  common; (a)  They strongly espouse Jewish Christianity as portrayed in the Old and New  Testaments, and (b) the peculiar twist that the "Ten  Lost Tribes of Israel" wandered into, and  populated Europe, something not even remotely suggested by either the Old or  New Testament, and  most emphatically  repudiated by all authentic history to which we are heir in today's  civilization. 
  
  These two beliefs are both based on pure fantasy and absolute I nonsense.  Furthermore, they completely contradict one another. Anyone who  believes in the Jewish Bible ( O.T. & NT.)  can hardly come to such an absurd and paradoxical conclusion. In fact, the  whole reasoning process  here exemplifies  some bizarre mental gymnastics, and defies all logic. Starting with an  unsubstantiated hypothesis (the spooks in the sky  theory) it is followed by a non-sequitur (that  the historic Europeans are the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel," whose  historic existence is extremely  questionable  in the first place). 
  
  CREATIVITY on the other hand is based on Logic and Common Sense, the Eternal  Laws of Nature, and a critical study of past history. It faces  reality and accepts the facts of life and the  universe as they are. It seeks through logic and reason to build a better life  for our race and future  progeny. 
  
  B. Goals and Objectives. 
  
  Again, the goals of the Identity people are fuzzy and clouded, but can be best  described as (a) fighting for the survival of the White Race, and  (b) the spreading of Jewish Christianity. The  ultimate goal, it would seem, would be to have the White Race again ruling  America and the world  with Christianity  being the dominant power over the White Race (and the world), not unlike the  tyrannical power it once wielded during the Dark  Ages. 
  
  CREATIVITY'S goals have been spelled out repeatedly, and they are: The  survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race, with  ultimately the White Race inhabiting (solely)  this Planet Earth, devoid of mud races. This can be further expanded into the  Twenty Points of  Creativity as set forth  at the end of this book. 
  
  C. Racial Attitude. 
  
  Here the Identity movement and  Creativity have much common ground. Identity preaches White Supremacy, whereas  Creativity goes one step  further and  advocates not White Supremacy, but completely White hegemony and exclusive  possession of all the good lands of this Planet  Earth. 
  
  D. Organizational Structure. 
  
  The Identity movement is a loose conglomerate of many parts with no central  point of focus, and little coordination. 
  
  The Church of the Creator has its World Center near Otto, North Carolina and  its organization is based on the Leadership Principle. It has  ordained ministers who represent the creed and  program of the Church in most States in this country, and also several foreign  countries. Its  creed and program are  clearly spelled out in its Three Basic Books, and Expanding Creativity,  Building a Whiter and Brighter World, and this  book, Rahowa! Its creed and program are clear,  comprehensive, consistent, complete and well-structured, covering the whole  spectrum of  eugenics, race, religion,  morals, politics, economics and culture for the present and future welfare of  the White Race. 
  
  British-lsraelism: White Men in the Wilderness 
  
  By permission of Liberty Bell Magazine, Reedy, WV. 
  
  That part of the world which the Romans called Palestine was known as Canaan to  its original inhabitants, a luckless people who were  displaced from their homeland by twelve tribes  of Hebrew- speaking invaders who employed the rather unedifying methods of  conquest  described in the Old Testament  book of Joshua. After consolidating their gains, the Hebrews under the rule of  Jereboam, around 900 B.C.E.,  divided  themselves into a northern kingdom of Israel and a southern kingdom of Judah.  Two centuries later, the ten tribes living in Israel  became the notorious Ten Lost Tribes when they  were carried off into captivity by the Assyrians. And thus came to pass a great  mystery. 
  
  Perhaps the Gnostic heretic who held that the world was created by an evil  demiurge was correct, because the truth concerning most  supposedly great mysteries is usually either  unpleasant or boring. The truth about the ten tribes, which falls into the  latter category, is certainly  no  exception to this rule. Sensible historians have concluded that the lost tribes  were assimilated into the Assyrian nation, with what effect we  do not know save for the fact that the  Assyrians soon thereafter disappeared from history. 
  
  The boring facts, however, have not stopped various hopeful or imaginative  people who have rushed forth with delightful nonsense in  explanation of the Ten Lost Tribes. The  Puritans, hopeful that they might have a chance to convert ten-twelfths of  Jewry, believed at first that  the  American Indians were the errant Hebrews. Americus Symmes, son of John Cleves  Symmes (1742-1814), and exponent of the hollow  earth theory, fantasized that explorers in quest  of confirmation for his father's theory would find that they had been  anticipated by the missing  tribes who  had long ago discovered the inner earth to be an ideal redoubt against  Assyrians, Babylonians, and Roman tax-collectors. Finally,  more than one science fiction writer has found  an extraterrestrial abode for the lost tribes, a whimsy that was possibly the  literary projection of  an earnest wish. 
  
  Most theories concerning the lost tribes are simply silly, but one,  British-Israel or Anglo-lsraelitism, is somewhat pernicious in its effects and  should be exposed as such. The fourteenth  edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica includes the following definition of  this theory: "Anglo-  lsraelitism,  the contention that the English-speaking peoples are the descendants of the Ten  Tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on  the fall of Samaria in 721 B.C.E. Richard  Brothers (1757-1824), the 'Nephew of the Almighty,' may be regarded as its  first modern apostle." The  dubious  career of Brothers is further detailed in the article  "Anglo-lsraelitism" in the Encyclopedia I of Religion and Ethics,  edited by James  Hastings, published in 1908  and still the standard reference work in its field: "According to his \  account he was a Divinely appointed prophet.  He described himself as a 'nephew of the  Almighty,' and claimed descent from David. Among his prophecies were those of  the imminent  restoration of Israel to  the Holy Land, and the elevation of himself as prince of the Hebrews and ruler  of the world. Brothers was confined as a  lunatic, \ but succeeded in obtaining many  admirers..." Hastings next\ enumerated several good reasons why the theory  is false. 
  
  British-Israel theorists, in the absence of sound evidence for their theory,  have nonetheless persisted in demanding that it be accepted as a  matter of faith. Surely this is a faith that  recalls Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum because it defies all common sense. To  see this, one need  only ask how the Ten  Lost Tribes could have wended their way from Israel all the way to the British  Isles, a part of Europe that is far removed  from Israel, without encountering the outraged  resistance of people met along the way. How could they have subdued all those  Celts and  Teutons who were then  occupying central and western Europe as their descendants do today? 
  
  The most recent generation of British-Israelites, who may have been troubled by  this question in addition to seeking a wider potential audience,  has come forth with a more extensive species  of nonsense which they call "Identity." This fantasy equates Israel  with all Europeans. The major  objection  to this revised theory, the fact that Celts and Teutons lived in Europe long  before 721 B.C.E., is conveniently ignored. 
  
  The Celts not only lived in Europe around 1 000 B.C.E., but also quite possibly  had colonized portions of what is now New England. This is the  thesis advanced by Barry Fell, an Australian  biologist at Harvard, in his recently published book America B.C. Fell, an ex-  pert in Celtic  languages and  archaeology, has deciphered numerous rock carvings, mostly writings in the old  Celtic ogam alphabet, which suggest that  America was what the Celts call largalon, the  land of the setting sun. 
  
  Even if Fell's theory is not accepted, however, the fact remains that Europe  was the homeland of the Celts and Teutons long before the ten  tribes were carried off from Israel. The  amount of archaeological evidence that supports this statement would suffice to  bury all "Identity"  enthusiasts  up to their eyebrows. However, this would be a pointless effort for they are  the same kind of people as those who told T.H. Huxley  that Satan invented fossils to tempt us to  believe that the earth existed before 4004 B.C.E., the year which the great  Anglican Archbishop  Ussher had  established as the beginning of Creation. Such people simply refuse to accept  the evidence of their senses; it is too boring or  painful for them. 
  
  Another serious objection to the "Identity" foolishness also meets  with silence. This is the fact that European languages have no linguistic  affinity with Hebrew. British-Israel fanatics  have argued that Saxon is derived from "Isaac's sons." Actually,  Saxon is deriv- ed from the Old 
  
  English seax, a knife or dagger, which  is akin to the Old High German sahs, a rock or stone. It is also a fact that  Anglo-Saxon, a dialect of Old  West  Germanic, is so closely related to Old High German that a student who reads  Beowulf, oldest poem in English literature, may with little  more instruction also read the  Hildebrandslied, the oldest poem in German literature. Furthermore, not only  all Teutonic languages, but also all  other  European languages together with Sanskrit may be traced back to one primal  Indo-European or Aryan language. The Oxford English  Dictionary gives an etymology going back to  Aryan roots for thousands of words in English. However, no Indo-European  tongues can be traced  back to Hebrew or  any other Semitic language. We people of European descent have a unique  linguistic heritage and, consequently, a unique  mentality, a fact we may forget at our peril! 
  
  British-Israel would be simply silly if it were not also pernicious. One  sentence from the Britannica article cited before offers words of warning  that should be sufficient for the wise: 'The  theory, still held by over 2,000,000 people, materially assisted the settlement  of Jews in England in  the seventeenth  century." The Jews, many of them usurers of course, had first entered  England immediately after the Norman conquest in  1 066, and were then expelled by decree of Ed-  ward I in 1 290. Their usury, graphically described in Carlyle's Past and  Present as well as  Macaulay's History of  England, was the major factor in their expulsion. Not surprisingly, the period  following their expulsion was one during  which England prospered and became the world's  foremost power. The Elizabethan age needs little mention, but one fact is  particularly salient  as evidence of the  prosperity enjoyed during this Judenfrei period: The real wages of the English  workers did not again attain the level they had  reached in 1500 until 1900! This is noted by  economist Robert Heilbroner in his The Making of Economic Society (New York:  1962, P. 30).  British-Israel's  contribution to the re-entry of the Jews was an effort on behalf of the British  people's undoing. 
  
  Some of the worst excesses of the industrial revolution in Britain were not  unrelated to the readmission of the Jews. Many of the leading  capitalists of Manchester were Sephardic Jews.  Among them was Ricardo, a theorist of capitalism who was praised by Marx  because he  described the economic  process without reference to ethical considerations, i.e., "bourgeois  ideology." Another Jewish political economist and  capitalist of Manchester was Nassau Senior,  and it may be significant that one British-Israel tract, British Israelites and  the Ten Tribes (1 885),  was authored by  one H. W. J. Senior. 
  
  While the Jews' Bill, legislation to grant civil rights to the Jews, met  considerable opposition, philo-Semitic illusions were so cultivated in  England that it was almost another century  before the British became alert to the type of Jew that has been given a  classic portrayal in the  character of  Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. And while the insights of Sir Richard  Burton's The Jew, the Gypsy I and El Islam  contributed to an increasing knowledge toward  the end of the nineteenth century, this work's salutary effect counted for  little against the  romanticized Zionism  that was extolled in novels such as George Elliot s Daniel Deronda. In fact,  the impact of British-Israel extends to the  Balfour Declaration and modern-day Israel  itself. 
  
  Some advocates of "Identity" argue that they do not aid Zionism,  rather combat it because they differentiate between the "true"  Israelites, the  supposedly European  descendants of the ten tribes, and the Jews, descendants of Judah. The fact is,  however, that there are fewer  differences  between Israelites and Judaeans than there are between Prussians and Bavarians,  Scotchmen and Englishmen, or Romans and  Sicilians.  The division between the northern and southern kingdoms, Israel and Judah,  meant no more than, for example, the present-day  division between North Dakota and South  Dakota. It is likely that not even followers of "Identity" really  believe in this specious distinction. 
  
  Most advocates of British-Israel, including the Worldwide Church of God, do not  distinguish between Israelites and Jews, and continually urge  their followers, mostly Americans of British  descent, to support Zionist Israel. In this regard, they differ little from other  bird-brained Bible-  bangers, such as  Billy Hargis and Billy Graham, who also admonish their followers to support  Israel, advocate the admission to the U. S. of  millions of Asiatic "refugees," and  do whatever else they can to undermine and ultimately destroy this nation. 
  
  Fundamentalists in general - and British-Israel is merely an outgrowth of  fundamentalism - have had an unrealistic image of the Jew and have  accepted as literal fact the fanciful history  of the Jews presented in the Old Testament. This gullibility arises from at  least two factors, one  geographical and  one historical. 
  
  Geographically considered, most British-Americans were the first numerous  element of the American populace to separate itself from the Old  World. In their new wilderness homes, bereft  of European cultural influences, they often had only the Bible for reading  matter. Naturally, the  outlandish Old  Testament narratives appealed to their imaginations, and they attempted to find  analogues for them in their daily experiences.  After the Puritans, for example, gave up on  converting the Indians, they came to regard them as hopelessly heathen  Canaanites who were to  be slain and have  their lands occupied. The New England Abolitionists, John Brown most  notoriously, tended to identify themselves with the  prophets of the Old Testament, a fancy that  may partly account for the overnight success of Julia Ward Howe's  "Battle-Hymn of the Republic." 
  
  Awakened by the influx of eastern European immigrants, a number of prominent British-Americans  did, nonetheless, become alert to the reality  that is Judah. Particularly noteworthy are the  following: Hawthorn, U. S. Grant, Clements, James Russell, Lowell, Henry James,  Henry Adams,  John Jay Chapman, Edison,  Ford, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard, T. S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest  Hemingway. 
  
  Most British-Americans, especially the fundamentalists among them, remained,  however, in the geographical and cultural backlands. Such  Anglo-Saxons lost in a wilderness of ignorance  should be the first objects of the missionary efforts of those who have become  enlightened to  the depredations of the  two tribes which did not vanish with the Assyrians. 
  
  The magnitude of this task is only exceeded by its urgency. 
  
  We want more problem solvers, not more  hand-wringers. 
  
  Rights are something that are not  granted, but taken by those who are capable. Nature has endowed us with the  means to become the natural  heirs to  Planet Earth. 
  
  Before the White Race can ever organize a steamroller movement of any kind it  has to polarize around a racial religious core. Creativity is the  Answer. 
  
  Book I - Comparative Religions  Part IX - British Israel - Identity