Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Spokane to Atlanta? The Aryan Republican Army and the Phineas Priesthood share two things: the ideology of Christian Identity, which holds that northern Europeans are the chosen people of God; and a current round of prosecution for bank robbery. After one of the biggest manhunts in the Northwest, three members of the Priesthood were arrested in October and charged in a string of bombings and robberies that occurred last year: on April 1 masked men robbed the Spokesman-Review, a Spokane, Washington, daily, and minutes later robbed and bombed a nearby bank; on July 12 a local Planned Parenthood...
...German campaign against the Scientologists as detailed in the State Department's report is a dry dish of bureaucratic caution, simply laying out the facts and calling no names. It says Scientologists have been barred from joining major German parties like the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats and that some who joined earlier are being purged. The state of Baden-Wurttemberg has ordered its equivalent of the FBI to put a watch on church members. Bavaria is screening them out of the state civil service and says it will deny funds to events that feature performers...
...Germans have no hard evidence of criminality but an abiding fear of extremism in any form. The Christian Democrats call Scientology "totalitarian." A Social Democratic member of the Bundestag says it is "fascist." When a German delegation met with U.S. officials on the issue late last year, the Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous...
Fields says he was aroused when some members of Germany's Christian Democratic Union Party called for a boycott of Cruise's Mission: Impossible. The boycott failed, but it prompted Fields to write and pay for the $56,700 ad. He insists he was not retained by any Scientology organization and never discussed the ad with anyone affiliated with Scientology. Both Cruise and Travolta, he says, have since thanked him for his initiative...
...Centre in America and several satellite groups. By the late '80s, there were eight. Each had a five- or six-person board, and each board was dominated by Madalyn, Jon and Robin (she was Bill's daughter, but he had given her up to his mother years before his Christian conversion...