Soldiers of God: White Supremacists and Their Holy War for America

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Summary: Fascinating, authoritative, down to earth
Review: Fueled by exploding events at Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Freeman fiasco in Montana, and energized by the Okahoma City bombing, there are a number of groups right in your own back yard, especially if you live in Texas, Arkansas, Montana, Arizona or other conservative states, who are intent on waging a holy war against the government and the ever-darkening face of the United States. Howard and Myra put their lives on the line to gain this information,which they present in objective, clear prose based on the facts. Learn who the white supremacists are and what they have in store for America. [Great pictures, too.]

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Summary: Out There with the Soldiers of God
Review: SOLDIERS OF GOD: WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND THEIR HOLY WAR FOR AMERICA is an excellent introduction for anyone who would like basic information about the extreme right-wing white racist groups in the U.S. The authors took pains to win the trust of leaders and participants in such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and others holding the fundamental belief that America was created by and for the white race. The corollary to this belief is that their inheritance is currently under attack by a government (usually described by them as Jewish-controlled) bent on subverting white racial purity and true Christian values.

The authors spent a good deal of time attending meetings, rallies, and social events sponsored by the groups under study, as well as conducting extensive interviews with their leaders and reading widely in the printed and online material produced by them. Bushart, Craig, and Barnes do an admirable job of carrying out their intent to present the belief systems and viewpoints of white supremacy adherents as straightforwardly as possible, leaving it up to the reader to judge the credibility of these beliefs. One especially thought-provoking point made by the authors is that there are quite a few issues and concerns raised by the white supremacists which also resonate with more mainstream American citizens. I have met and chatted with Howard Bushart. He is a very thoughtful and articulate man, and I was impressed with his genuine desire to understand his subjects on their terms, to learn from his own research, which is the starting point all good scholarship.

The book is very well written and includes exclusive photos taken in the course of the authors' research. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Truly scary
Review: The authors are to be commended for letting their subjects speak for themselves, rather than presenting the reader with an editorial on the evils of white supremacist movements and using selected quotations to back it up. That said, I find the book incredibly frightening: the members of the groups profiled have made the common mistake of confusing "We're sincere" and "We can find Biblical support for our beliefs" with "We're RIGHT." (In fact you can find Biblical justification for just about anything, but that's never stopped anyone.) They resent being lumped together with "racist groups" by the FBI et al., but they themselves lump all sorts of unrelated phenomena together and call it the Satanic plot to take over the world.
These groups may contend that they're not "racist," but according to the maxim attributed to the late Cardinal Cushing: if it walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I say it's a duck.

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Summary: Post-Christian Society's Malcontents
Review: The authors of the book take a neutral stance on these white supremacists. They present their ideas without actually condoning them. They have a reserved sympathy for these people since the authors live in the rural conservative culture of Texas that breeds this sort of extremism. They also mention that they had repugnance towards some of the ideas presented, but avoided editorial comments as part of their deal with the extremists.

Many racial extremists have the religious theology of an antisemitic variety of Christian Identity. They interpret the scriptures to mean that whites are actually the chosen people and the Jews are the seed of Satan. They believe that the stone of destiny that the monarchs in England swear themselves upon when being enthroned is Jacob's pillar in the Bible because English tradition says so. Not all Identity Christians are anti-semitic though.

The extremists are firm believers in conspiracy theories involving the Jews and their Gentile freemason cohorts. They believe everything is controlled by ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) and that the Jews and freemasons involved shape society to their own benefit and to the detriment of the white population.

The authors do not sanitize their accounts of what the extremists truly believe. They believe in the elimination of homosexuals, Jews, race mixers, and the unproductive. Some of their beliefs on these matters are influenced by their interpretation of the Scriptures. (The more violent, younger and secular Neo-Nazi gangs believe in elimination of the unproductive.) The religious racists see themselves as soldiers of God in a righteous fight against what they see as evil. These religious beliefs make them very committed and sometimes they will attempt violence or lawbreaking to achieve their goals of having a Christian theocracy. They believe they are at war with a corrupt government that needs to be overthrown. However, they think that Timothy McVeigh was actually a government agent that worked to put the blame on racial extremists for OKC bombing and to create an incident to pass an anti-terrorists bill targeted against patriots.

They have problems with the theory of racial equality since they think affirmative action is used to promote people who do not merit the position and that blacks often make formerly all-white neighborhoods crime zones.

The authors do not try to confirm or deny any of the many conspiracy theories that they believe in and I think that this is weakness to the book.

The racial extremists have a battle strategy of leaderless resistance in which they form a small group of no more than seven people who know each other well. This strategy guards against infiltrators because the group remains very quiet about what they plan to do. They plan to have hundreds of these groups who will reek havoc upon what they see as ZOG controlled society as they attempt to implement a revolution.

I view the group as ultra conservatives with unorthodox Christian beliefs that do not want to live in a multi-culti society with race mixing and little adherence to some of the more thorny traditional Christian beliefs. They are unable to get what they want at the voting booth and are willing to use violence to get what they want. They also see through the weaknesses in the theory of racial equality and racial sameness when they observe reality. They are scary, but at the same time, fascinating to read about. Although milder conservatives may have the same complaints as the extremists do, they do not have the same nuances in their beliefs that will lead them to violence. Nuances in belief systems are important.

More people will probably be radicalized enough to join extremist groups in the future if the economy keeps sputtering and more foreigners come to live here making the nation less of a predominately white culture. Resentment will be stirred if non-whites are still considered a protected class as opposed to whites according to the law.

This is an informative and readable book that covers extremists in depth while avoiding the simplicity and distortion that the media usually resorts to when covering extremists.

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Summary: Rock On White Protestant America!
Review: This book has good pictures that tell a good story, it made me feel real good to read this, to see that some people cares about god, and is willing to do his workings, we needs to keep these minorties from taking whats ours;

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Summary: Much truth to S.O.G.
Review: This book is fairly presented & unbiased. The authors prove that much like societies as a whole, there are good & wicked people.The mainstream media will never present these people fairly. I know some of these folks personally & they are God fearing, law abiding people. The ones I know truly love their families & are concerned about government chicanery & deceit. Read the book. Don't waste time with media imposters & hype built on an intricate system of lies to create profit.

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Summary: Poor Scholarship Destroys Credibility of Soldiers of God
Review: This book is fatally flawed by its defective scholarship. The authors briefly refer to "The International Jew - The World's Foremost Problem" as being authored by Henry Ford in 1948. This book was actually a compilation of articles published in the periodical "The Dearborn Independent" in the 1920s and was available in book form in the 1920s. It, along with the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", is one of the most significant anti-semetic publications ever written and has had a profound influence in America and abroad. Adolf Hitler kept a picture of Henry Ford in his office for many years. Ford is alledged to have been a significant financial contributor to the early Nazi party.

Unfortunately, this error, as well as other errors in the text, force me to dismiss this book as simply another attempt to cash in on the militia hype of the 1990s.

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Summary: Finally, a book that tells the truth rather than twisting it
Review: This book is very informative for those that know nothing about the movement, and most people KNOW NOTHING. I encourage all White people to read this book and take to heart what it says. If you disagree with the Identity doctrine, try to disprove it. The beliefs are not only backed by Biblical truth, but as well as Historical proof. My praise to the authors for thier straight forward reporting. They said that they would not twist our words around, and they made good on the promise. Thank you Myra and Howard.

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Summary: A Sobering Preview of the Future Post Y2K
Review: This is a remarkable book.

The greatest error one can make is to demonize without thinking, without questioning, without talking.

The authors of this book provoke the reader to delve past the superficial, the sensational, the simplistic and see / hear what comes from the hearts and minds of a segment of our society which has chosen a path quite different than most.

Soldiers of God seeks to educate the reader and reveals what motivates the most radical, hyper violent factions of a movement so at war with itself that it's hard to tell the players apart unless you have a book like S.O.G. at hand to sift through the cults, clubs, churches, militias, cells, teams and secret armies.

Congratulations to those who went to the belly of the beast. In the end, no matter how human a face one can put on a "soldier of god", his or her beliefs, actions, and objectives are simply repugnant, at the very least.

In post Y2K such groups and philosophies are only becoming more sophisticated, appealing, motivated, and hardened. S.O.G. is a bedrock accomplishment for the student of this unfortunate reality in our and international society.

A "must read" and "outta have" in one's personal library.