Church of Jesus Christ-Christian

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The Church of Jesus Christ-Christian is a white supremacist group, since 1978 part of the Aryan Nations, which was founded in 1946 by Ku Klux Klan organizer Wesley A. Swift, the son of a Methodist Episcopal Church, South minister, who was considered the single most significant figure in the early years of the Christian Identity movement in the United States. It was originally known as the "White Identity Church of Jesus Christ-Christian," assuming its present name in 1957.

After Wesley Swift's death in 1970, the ministry was continued by his wife Lorraine Swift.

Among the group's teachings is that all non-whites — who are labelled "mud people" — have no souls and hence, no place at all in the afterlife; and since they are not going either to Heaven or Hell after they die, they have no incentive to self-regulate their earthly behavior. Jews are considered to be a race of devils born of Eve and Satan, and placed on Earth to do the bidding of Satan.

In February, 2001, the name "Church of Jesus Christ-Christian" was sold to Victoria and Jason Keenan along with the name "Aryan Nations" and the Aryan Nations compound when the Keenans won a 6.3 million USD lawsuit against the organizations after being attacked by Aryan Nations guards. In March, 2001, the Keenans sold the compound to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Carr Foundation, a human rights organization which plans to build a human rights center on the property. The Church resurfaced in September of 2004 upon the death of Richard Butler, who resumed the Ministry after the death of Swift. It is now headed by a Council of 3 men, including the Senior Pastor Jonathan Williams.