Empathy and the Religious "Enemy"

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• TIM AND SARAH GAYMAN DISCUSS GROWING UP IN THE ANTI-SEMITIC CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT
  SPLC Intelligence Report on Dan Gayman and interview with his son and daughter-in-law.
• Tales of Hate and "Differance": A Narrative Analysis of Gayman's "The Book of Adam."
• Mystical Anti-Semitism and the Christian Identity Movement: A Narrative Criticism of Dan Gayman's The Two Seeds of Genesis 3:15
  A paper presented at an annual meeting of the National Communication Association.
• Compilation of Joplin Globe articles about Dan Gayman and the Church of Israel ministry.
  Compilation of Joplin Globe articles about Dan Gayman and the Church of Israel ministry.
• "Anti-Government Pastor Won’t Pay Taxes, Setting up Battle in Rural Oregon"
  Archived article detailing Paul Revere's 1996 property tax evasion case
• "Another conviction, another sentence in ‘Embassy of Heaven’ case"
  Article detailing Glenn Stoll's conviction of the 7 crimes he was indicted for in 2019.
• "Oregon City couple sentenced to probation in tax evasion case"
  Details how a couple aided by Embassy of Heaven's Glenn Stoll was charged for tax evasion
• "Washington State Man Accused of Marketing Fraudulent Tax Avoidance Schemes Disguised as Churches, Other Entities"
  Article from the Justice Department detailing the 2019 indictment of Glenn Stoll
• "Anti-LGBT Conference Showcases Breadth of a Church Movement's Hate"
  Article by the Southern Poverty Law Center on a conference attended by many anti-LGBT church leaders
• "Fort Worth pastor who called Pulse massacre victims 'scum' apologizes for adultery, stands by sermon"
  Dallas Morning News article on former pastor Donnie Romero, who was ousted from his church after a scandal regarding his behavior
• "Texas pastor says gay people should be 'shot in the back of the head' in shocking sermon"
• 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."
• Extremist Sects Within the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement
  Backgrounder report on extremist sects of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, including ICGJC.
• "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.
• "10 The Left-Hand Path and Post-Satanism: The Temple of Set and the Evolution of Satanism"
• "Nine. The Church of Satan and the Temple of Set: Religious Parody and Satanic Panic."
  Chapter of a book addressing key theoretical and methodological problems in the study of new religions and alternative spiritual forms. Chapter 9 focuses on the Temple of Set.