9. The Creativity Movement
Founded in Lighthouse point Florida in 1973, The Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church Of The Creator), is a white separatist organization that hugely promotes a racist whites-only religion. Despite the former use of the word Church in its name, the movement is atheist. The use of the term creator does not refer to a figure, but rather to themselves (white people,) as explained by the following’s creator, Ben Klassen. After Klassen’s death in 1993, Creativity almost died out as a religion, until the New Church of the Creator was established three years later by Matthew F.
Hale as its high priest. Hale was incarcerated in January 2003, for plotting with the movement’s head of security, Anthony Evola (an FBI informant), to murder a federal judge. Who knew racism and religion wouldn’t work well together in the 21st Century?
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