Empathy and the Religious "Enemy"

Items

• "The Real Pilgrims Covenant Church"
  Blog post describing what the PCC is, and what it is not.
• "No, We Do Not Hate Catholics! Pilgrims Covenant Church and Romanism"
  A description of PCC beliefs regarding the Roman Catholic Church and its members.
• "Rape, Murder, and Homosexuality!"
  Description of PCC beliefs of "the homosexual life," which refers to media and personal cases of violence perpetrated by members of the LGBT community.
• "Correspondence from the 'Tolerant, Inclusive Gay and Lesbian Community'"
  "Over the years, Ralph Ovadal, WCU, and Pilgrims Covenant Church have received hundreds of threats in person, by phone, and through the mail. We have not kept a record of the phone threats, which seem to be the most violent of all by far. Threats received through the mail have sometimes included disgusting objects or material such as cat manure or a used condom. The following excerpts are just a few of the many threats received by PCC, WCU, or the Ovadal family. The worst threats have been turned over to police authorities and are not available for publication."
• "Pastor and First Amendment on Trial in Madison Today"
  Primary source description of Paster Ralph Ovadal's trial in 2001 for harassment at a nude beach in Wisconsin.
• Black Hebrew Israelite Bishop Dies Days After Fearing Church Punishment
• Police Raid Black Supremacist Church in New York City
  Federal agents and local police raided the headquarters of a New York City-based black nationalist religious group that preaches an anti-white, anti-Semitic message.
• Leaders of Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ arrested for bilking millions from the organization
  "...The United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey is alleging that the group’s leader, Jermaine Grant aka Chief High Priest Tazadaqyah, and the group’s director, vice president and treasurer, Lincoln Warrington, diverted over $2 million from the groups coffers to other ventures, including the leaders’ luxury household expenses."
• SO-CALLED U.F.O. THE CHARIOTS OF GOD
  Newsletter
• SO-CALLED U.F.O. THE CHARIOTS OF GOD
  Newsletter
• List of ICGJC locations (2014)
  Below is a list of class locations and/or churches of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ we currently have in 11 states within the United States:
• A TRUE SPIRITUAL VIEW DECEMBER EDITION
• The Holy Conception Unit Forum
• Is Your Church Teaching THE TRUTH According to the HOLY BIBLE?
  Newsletter flyer
• WHAT ABOUT SLAVERY?
  Newsletter flyer
• "WHO ARE THE BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA"
  ICGJC newsletter publication
• Extremist Sects Within the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement
  Backgrounder report on extremist sects of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, including ICGJC.
• LETTER TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL
  Letter to the Congregation is Israel re: the death of the Holy God Sent Comforter, Holy Apostle and Chief High Priest Tazadaqyah
• "16. 'I’m an Israelite: Kendrick Lamar’s Spiritual Search, Hebrew Israelite Religion, and the Politics of a Celebrity Encounter"
  Attentive to both the porous nature of claims to belief, as well as the overall lack of public knowledge concerning the Hebrew Israelites, Kestenbaum looks at the limits of celebrity endorsement – how Lamar’s exploration of Hebrew Israelite belief is policed by insiders, outsiders, and the media, and considers what this says about the place of marginalized American spiritual beliefs in pop culture.
• The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (ICGJC) - ADL Glossary
  Glossary summary of the ICGJC.
• RACIST BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES BECOMING MORE MILITANT
  SPLC account of Black Hebrew Israelite groups, including ICGJC, and their evolution in recent years.
• From the Church of Satan to the Temple of Set: revisionism in the Satanic Milieu
  New and minority religions are particularly fertile grounds for examining how charismatically authorised attempts at revision of existing traditions are made, evaluated, and acted upon. By no means do all attempts at revision succeed as revisions; some fail, and the status quo remains; others succeed and the tradition remains intact but changed; others fail as revisions but lead to greater changes, even the founding of new groups within a broader tradition. In this chapter, I will focus first on an example where an appeal to charismatic authority as the rationale for revision of an existing tradition might not be readily expected: the Church of Satan.
• KHPR: The Voice of Darkness
  Magister Adams has been a member of the Temple of Set for almost 20 years. He has worked hard to fight against those who have little to no knowledge of the Temple of Set to defame it publicly. By producing and hosting KHPR: The Voice of Darkness he is giving a voice to those who travel the left hand path toward self transformation a voice in this world that others would not like you to hear. KHPR: The Voice of Darkness is in no way funded or owned by the Temple of Set. It is simply one man’s voice who is a member of the Temple.
• TEMPLE OF SET FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
  FAQ with questions like: "Who or what is Satan? What is Satanism? Is Satanism an organized religion?" Et cetera.
• Extract From Black Magic in Theory & Practice
  Email response to The Non-Nature of the Psyche; from xeper@aol.com to sonofungod!aol.com (Phil Marfuta).