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	Ben Klassen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ben (Bernhardt) Klassen (1918 — 1993) was the founder of the white-supremacist Church of the Creator (COTC).
		Klassen was born in the Ukraine to a Mennonite family.
		Klassen committed suicide in 1993 after the death of his wife, by overdosing on sleeping pills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Klassen (234 words)

	SPLCenter.org: Words from the Founder
		The prolific writings of Ben Klassen, inventor of an early version of the electric can-opener and founder of the original Church of the Creator, are treated by his successors as holy.
		Klassen, who committed suicide in 1993, is seen as the greatest man in history, followed by Adolf Hitler and, presumably, the group's current leader, Matt Hale.
		Klassen's texts are used in "sermons" of the group and examined in study sessions.
	www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=220&printable=1 (257 words)

	Creativity Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The organization was initially founded as the Church of the Creator by Ben Klassen in early 1973 with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion.
		It was later led by Matthew F. Hale, until his incarceration on January 8, 2003 for allegedly plotting with FBI informant Anthony Evola to murder a federal judge.
		After the judgement was handed down, Klassen sold the organization's North Carolina compound, which housed its headquarters, in an attempt to unload the assets of the organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Creativity_Movement (1315 words)

	WCOTC
		The reappearance of Klassen's group is a disturbing development and illustrates the continuing and powerful influence of the Creator ideology on the far right, particularly among racist skinheads.
		COTC and creativity, the ostensible theology of the church, were the inventions of Ben Klassen, a one-time Florida state legislator born in the Ukraine and raised in Canada.
		Klassen appeared to anticipate this lawsuit, and spent the last years of his life in a frantic attempt to unload COTC assets, like selling the North Carolina compound which housed COTC's headquarters, and divesting himself of responsibility for the organization.
	www.meta-religion.com /Extremism/White_extremism/WCOTC/wcotc.htm (1798 words)

	Ben Klassen: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Racial holy war (rahowa) is the belief that white people should unite and undertake a holy war against jews and non-whites....
		Klassen committed suicide in 1993 after the death of his wife, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Klassen was the author of several books - Expanding Creativity (1985), EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Be/Ben_Klassen.htm (768 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people/k/klassen.ben/adl-1993-cotc-report
		the late Ben Klassen, a far-right political activist in the 1960s, gloried in the concept he fervently and frequently proclaimed as his goal: racial holy war." COTC propaganda is as hostile toward Christianity as it is toward Judaism; as hateful toward Blacks and other people of color as it is toward Jews.
		The Creator of The Church of the Creator Ben Klassen, the founder of the Church of the Creator, was born on February 20, 1918, in Taurida, Ukraine.
		This year, amid COTC founder Ben Klassen's desperate search for a successor (which led him to consider an ex-convict, and a neo Nazi Skinhead, among others), police in Las Angeles uncovered an alleged conspiracy implicating COTC members in a scheme to blow up one of the city's largest Black churches.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/people/k/klassen.ben/adl-1993-cotc-report (7872 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Before Altvater, there was Ben Klassen, a former Florida legislator who penned the White Man's Bible, preached hate and expulsion of fls and Jews, founded what would become known as the World Church of the Creator in 1973 and then committed suicide 20 years later in 1993.
		Klassen held title to the compound until 1992, when he sold the land to William Pierce, head of National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group.
		In 1992, while Klassen searched for a successor and Altvater stood trial, Hale was campaigning in the Peoria, Ill., area to get the name of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on the Illinois presidential primary ballot.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2005/03/20/opinion/forum/8137f956925b319786256fc60021a301.prt (935 words)

	American Nazis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Klassen was born in 1918 in Ukraine, Russia to a wonderful Jewish family.
		Klassen runs his church for 20 years without any trouble from the ADL and such.
		Klassen turns the church over to a Mr Wilson - fires him and replaces with Richard McCarty, a telemarketer
	litek.ws /k0nsl/detox/Klassen.html (772 words)

	Big Winner Of Shootout Is Charity
		About three years ago, Klassen was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a solid cancerous tumor that is referred to as the silent tumor.
		Ben was a guest at Norman's clinic on Tuesday and at the tournament dinner on Thursday night.
		Ben and his family came out to watch Sunday's round after catching Florida Everblades games the previous two nights.
	www.shark.com /mls/news_111703.php (982 words)

	Creativity Movement (formerly World Church of the Creator) -- Extremism in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Originally founded by Ben Klassen in 1973 as Church of the Creator, the organization fell into disarray in the mid-1990s following the criminal convictions of several of its members, the suicide of Klassen in 1993 and a successful lawsuit brought by the family of a Gulf War veteran murdered in 1991 by a COTC member.
		Klassen appeared to anticipate this lawsuit and spent the last year of his life in an effort to unload COTC assets and divest himself of responsibility for the organization.
		Klassen's letter introducing McCarty to COTC members was virtually the last public act he performed in connection with the organization: on August 6, 1993, Klassen committed suicide, at the age of 75, by swallowing four bottles of sleeping pills.
	www.adl.org /learn/ext_us/WCOTC.asp (3140 words)

	The News-Press: Bonita Springs
		Ben was one of an estimated 240 cancer survivors at the relay which started at 6 p.m.
		Sandie Klassen, the mother of young survivor Ben Klassen, said taking her son to the relay brought back the memories of surgeries, radiation and finally a bone marrow transplant.
		Ben was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancer of the peripheral nervous system, when he was 3 1Ú2 years old.
	www.news-press.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050320/NEWS0102/503200416/1002/NEWS01 (800 words)

	American Nazis
		Ben Klassen was born in 1918 in the Ukraine, to a wonderful Jewish family.
		In 1973, Klassen formed the COTC with the publication of a 511-page tome entitled "Nature's Eternal Religion".
		Klassen turns the church over to a Mr.
	judicial-inc.biz /Klassen.htm (825 words)

	Ben Klassen at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ben Klassen (1918-1993) was the main founder of the religion of Creativity.
		Klassen first popularized the term Racial Holy War within white supremacism.
		Klassen committed suicide in 1993 by swallowing four bottles of sleeping pills.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Ben_Klassen.html (187 words)

	Overthrow.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ben Klassen used the term World Church of the Creator when he founded the group, and Ben Klassen certainly had the right to the trademark, because he was the first to use the term in interstate commerce.
		However, Ben Klassen died in the mid-1990s, and because the World Church of the Creator was a dba for him personally, his use of the term in business died with him.
		Matt Hale is not Ben Klassen and a group calling itself the World Church of the Creator in Chicago, under the trademark law, which takes geographical location into account, is not the same as a group calling itself the World Church of the Creator in North Carolina.
	www.overthrow.com /lsn/news.asp?articleID=6371 (1687 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Birch Society battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As for the question of whether or not Klassen was a racist when he entered the JBS, I must disagree with your assertion that "Klassen makes clear in the book that he didn't have any solid racist beliefs whatsoever until the late 1960s." Klassen states on p.
		As you probably know, Ben Klassen is not an isolated case in terms of JBS history.
		Ben Klassen left the Birch Society after he came to believe it was part of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white race.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19842 (1480 words)

	SPLCenter.org: Church of the Creator: A History
		But in June, Klassen again changes his mind (a fortuitous move: in November, Altvater is arrested after attempting to firebomb the home of a police officer who'd had his car towed), naming Milwaukee COTC chief Mark Wilson, 25, as the next COTC leader.
		On Aug. 7, Klassen commits suicide, leaving a smoldering pile of shredded documents and a note describing suicide as an "honorable" way to die.
		Hale is elected Pontifex Maximus and Jonathan Viktor, a Klassen devotee educated at his school for boys, is chosen Hastus Primus, or vice president, of the reconstituted group.
	www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=219&printable=1 (1331 words)

	Fight dem back!
		Born in the Ukraine in 1918 to a Mennonite (ironically Mennonites are committed to non-violence, non-resistance and pacifism) family as Bernhardt Klassen.
		Klassen's writings and movement gained impetus and following amongst mainly neo-Nazi skinheads seeking to justify their white supremacist beliefs with some kind of "theological" dogma.
		They registered the name in 1987, 14 years after Klassen had started the COTC but their registration was uncontested, so by law they have the rights to the name.
	www.fightdemback.org /2006/02/01/whats-a-rahowa-anyway (4011 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Merchants of hate
		As the self-styled Pontifex Maximus of the Church of the Creator, Klassen taught that Christianity is a hoax, that non-whites are the deadly enemies of whites, that the war with Mexico is "unfinished," and that history will either culminate in the destruction of the white race or in the extermination of the Jews.
		At the age of 20 Klassen learned his political ABCs from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," which taught that communism was part of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.
		The new Pontifex Maximus of Klassen's "church" is the Reverend Matt Hale.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19841 (856 words)

	Norman Delights Kids At NCCF Clinic
		Klassen, who turns 6 Wednesday, was ecstatic to meet one of his idols, Greg Norman, the host of the clinic and this week's Merrill Lynch Shootout.
		Nearly three years ago, Klassen, a Bonita Springs resident, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, which is a solid cancerous tumor that is referred to as the silent tumor.
		But Klassen was more impressed with trick-shot artist Dennis Walters and his dog, Benji Hogan, who ended the clinic.
	www.shark.com /mls/news_111203.php (1209 words)

	PublicEye.org - White Supremacists in the U.S.
		According to Klassen, his religion--Creativity--is the recognition that the natural destiny of the White Race is to rule the world and thus fulfill the purpose of the universe.
		What Klassen did was to pick up ideas from the theories of Nietzsche, pantheisim, Odinism, and Celtic paganism as filtered through German Nazi retelling of the Norse heroic warrior myths, to create a religion of Aryanist White supremacy.
		Klassen's words are reprinted by Hale as part of a public statement in the WCOTC newsletter The Struggle, that includes the claim: "Our Church does not condone or advocate violence or illegality in any way." The Struggle, Issue XC, Dec. XXIXAC, p.
	www.publiceye.org /racism/white-supremacy.html (4220 words)

	World Church of Creator founded in 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Helena -- The Church of the Creator was founded by Florida racist Ben Klassen in 1973, who dubbed the group the "Creativity Movement'' and appointed himself "Pontifex Maximus,'' or supreme leader.
		Klassen's books, with such titles as "The White Man's Bible'' and "Nature's Eternal Religion,'' fuel the group's beliefs and sales of the books serve as the church's main source of income.
		Klassen led the church up until he committed suicide in 1992.
	www.rickross.com /reference/hale/hale89.html (615 words)

	SE-GAG Info - World Church of the Creator
		History: Church of the Creator (the original name of WCOTC) and "creativity," the ostensible "theology" of the "church," were the inventions of Ben Klassen, a one-time Florida state legislator born in Ukraine and raised in Canada.
		In March 1994, the family of the murdered veteran filed and subsequently won a lawsuit against COTC, resulting in a $1 million damage award and the dissolution of the organization for vicarious liability in the murder.
		Klassen appeared to anticipate this lawsuit, and spent the last years of his life in a frantic attempt to unload COTC assets -- like selling his North Carolina compound, which housed COTC's headquarters -- and divest himself of responsibility for the organization.
	www.segag.org /hateinfo/frcofc.html (1302 words)

	Ben Klassen the Jew?? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		he claims Ben Klassen was a Jew and a pedophile, and also claims Dr. Pierce was married to a dothead and his Cosmotheist religion is a "bunch of jewish nonsense".
		Klassen was obsessed with outrageous hatred for Christ, just like a Jew.
		For you to say that Ben Klassen was an enemy of the White Race is just incredible.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=122667 (2137 words)

	Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 12:25:24 -0700 Subject: [Atheist] AANEWS for May 26, 1996 nn nn AAN
		Loeb was convicted of the crime in July, 1992 -- but not before the head and founder of the Church, Ben Klassen, sold off some of the assets for $100,000, about 1/4 of the market value.
		Klassen, the "Pontifex Maximus" of the Church, had expressed concerns that the Church may be held liable for Loeb's actions.
		By the early 1970's, though, Klassen was rejecting mainstream conservatism, and in his writings later described it as a "smokescreen for Jews." He steadilly embraced more bizarre teachings from Ku Klux Klan and neo-nazi organizations, and then published his own philosophical work which he called Nature's Eternal Religion.
	www.skepticfiles.org /american/aanes147.htm (3262 words)

	Is World Church of the Creator a religion or an extremist group?? - DiscussAnything.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Church of the Creator (the original name of WCOTC) and "creativity," the ostensible "theology" of the "church," were the inventions of Ben Klassen, a one-time Florida state legislator born in Ukraine and raised in Canada.
		The reappearance of the Church of the Creator is a disturbing indication of the sustained appeal for some people of Klassen's racist ideas, and is yet another example of the need for our continued vigilance in the fight against violent extremism.
		Ben Klassen, the founder of the Church of the Creator, was born on February 20, 1918, in Taurida, Ukraine.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20772 (4552 words)

	World Church of the Creator
		The group denies the Holocaust and is dedicated to the "survival, expansion, and advancement of the White Race exclusively".
		Originally called simply the Church of the Creator, the organization was founded in 1973 by Ben Klassen and currently led by Matthew Hale.
		Soon after appointing McCarty in the summer of 1993, Klassen committed suicide by swallowing four bottles of sleeping pills.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/w/wo/world_church_of_the_creator.html (1054 words)

	Canadian Press retracts defamatory headline (07/18/99) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The 12th paragraph of the 18-paragraph article, about the founder of a racist organization called The Church of the Creator, read: "Founded in 1973 by Ben Klassen, a former Florida state legislator who was born in Ukraine and raised in Canada, the church attracted neo-Nazis and skinheads."
		"In fact, the late Ben Klassen was not of Ukrainian heritage and the Ukrainian-Canadian community had no contact with him when he lived in Canada.
		Klassen was born in Ukraine but was of another ethnic heritage, "[Mr.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1999/299903.shtml (561 words)

	Creativity Movement (formerly known as World Church of the Creator)
		Hitler, Nietzsche and Klassen were the three greatest persons in history, according to the group.
		The only time this is allowed, according to Klassen, is when they think their Constitutional or religious freedom rights are in any way being hampered.
		Betraying or leaving the group is seen as treachery or treacherous apathy to the white race and Ben Klassen requires the severest punishment for those who betray them.
	www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/groups/c/creativity (549 words)

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		The Church of the Creator was described by Revilo P. Oliver, Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois and one of the 20th century's greatest writers on religion, as perhaps the first attempt in this century to found an entirely new race-based religion for White people.
		After Ben Klassen's death in 1993, the church declined and nearly became moribund until Matt Hale's ascent to its leadership in recent years.
		Klassen, I sent copies of them to the church for their historical archive.
	www.natall.com /pub/2003/011803.txt (2519 words)

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