Racial Purity and the Aryan Nations

“When God Almighty established the Adamic race in the earth to build His Kingdom, He had ordained from the beginning were not to mingle with the ‘tree of knowledge, of good and evill’ with the races that had already fallen and had gone under the influence of satanic ideas we must preserve our racial purity.” -Reverend Wesley Swift from the article Preserving Our Racial Self Respect

The "ideal" Christian soldier protecting his race.

Swift, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (the source of inspiration for the Aryan Nations), uses biblical references in this article as a way to justify the need for racial purity among White Christians. Further along, Swift mentions how Jews do not use the book of Hebrews (the reference for the above quote) because Hebrews was written to White Christians who constitute a Christian civilization, something that cannot be established without the removal of the Jews. Additionally, he points out that other races having "already fallen...under the influence of satanic ideas" (according to Swift, the Jews) are racially impure and will thus, infect the White Christian race.

Purity is the first and foremost goal of the Aryan Nations. One of their website aryan-nations.org, flaunts the slogan "Racial Purity is Our Nation's Security." With this goal of racial purity, the idea of racial segregation and genocide also come into play.

On the Welcome page of the Aryan Nations website, the page states "we must use this rare genetic advantage" [racial purity] via "unilateral across-the-board cooperation" to prevent the "sharing of an UNcommon bloodline" [racial segregation] to prevent "our death as a race" [racial genocide].  What this means is the Aryan Nations believe that without segregation, the purity of the white race is threatened by other cultures through disease and miscegenation.

 In her book White Man Falling, Abby Ferber sites articles in which white nationalists attempt to use science and evolution to explain how they believe other races to be inferior to the pure white race because "evolution [is] a clear path of increasing racial differentiation" (71) and "according to Christian Identity theology,...difference is destiny-it is God-given. Nonwhites are not simply biologically or genetically different from whites, they are not considered God's children" (71).  Again, tying this back to what Swift said about preserving racial purity by not mingling with people who have fallen victim to satanic ideas or, as Ferber puts it, not God's children.

Additionally, Ferber talks about how white nationalists, like the Aryan Nations, believe that the key to preserving our race is racial segregation and without said segregation, or race will go into genocide. The allowance of the "Other" races into our country is what leads to race-mixing. And this race-mixing is "equated with ill health, disease and degeneration" (80) of the white race and will be the ultimate demise of the purity of the white race. White supremacists believe that the health of a pure white race is equated with racial segregation and that race-mixing throws off the harmony of the biological community. Genocide of the pure white race will occur unless segregation and miscegenation is outlawed.