The Dark Theology of Christian Identity

Black metal, occult extremism, and the ideology reshaping the radical right

Black Sun Book Club – Thursday, March 5 at 2:30 pm Pacific

We’re now entering the most dangerous section of Black Sun.

This week we’ll cover:

• Chapter 10: White Noise and Black Metal

• Chapter 11: Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon

• Chapter 12: Christian Identity and Creativity

Up to this point, I’ve described the post-war esoteric right as having a “Luciferic” face: mythic, cosmic, aesthetically compelling, even creative in an unsettling way.

The authors wrote of Hyperborea, polar mysticism, Aldebaran, and Jungian archetypes. They took a counterfeit spirituality and dressed it up as high symbolism.

It glowed… but it was never neutral.

Now the glow fades.

When the Glow Fades

These next chapters of Black Sun document the shift from mythmaking to militant rage, and from romantic esotericism to its inevitable conclusion: explicit Satanism. Here, the rebellion against Christianity stops pretending to be abstract and philosophical, and instead becomes overt and direct.

No more games. The inversion is now intentional.

This isn’t a niche subculture story. It’s the missing link in understanding a portion of what’s happening right now in American political and online life.

And then we arrive at Christian Identity.

Christian Identity is not a meme. It is a racialized theological system that teaches that white Europeans are the true Israel and that Jews are literally the offspring of Satan. It has influenced militias, prison movements, extremist networks, and segments of online nationalist culture. And with the radicalization of the extreme right wing, the vocabulary of Christian Identity is now resurfacing in public-facing discussions.

This matters because we’re living through a period where many Christian men sense real cultural decline, institutional betrayal, demographic anxiety, and civilizational instability. Goodrick-Clarke references some of these same trends in his book, which was published in 2002.

Moments like that create psychic pressure. Under this pressure, reactionary movements either return to the well-lit ground of biblical clarity, or they reach into the murky darkness for myth.

Christian Identity is one of the most dangerous examples of what emerges from that darkness.

Christian Identity represents what happens when biblical language is severed from biblical doctrine, fused to racial grievance, and weaponized against human enemies instead of sin.

In other words, it’s a case study in theological mutilation.

If you care about the integrity of Christian thought in America—including what young men are consuming online—this chapter is not optional.

What We’re Reading Next

One update to our reading plan: American Veda will have to wait.

Our next book will be Warrant for Genocide by Norman Cohn. This book is the definitive scholarly study of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the conspiracy tradition that feeds both Serrano-style mythologies and Christian Identity.

If you’ve never heard of the Protocols, they are the major driver behind the resurgence of Jew-hatred on the extreme right. The notorious forgery claims to document a secret plan for Jewish world domination. As hard as it may be to believe, many young men and even successful influencers are now absorbing and propagating the worldview wholesale.

Cohn’s book traces the actual origins of the Protocols to political intrigue in Napoleonic France and anti-modernist propaganda in Tsarist Russia. Not a clandestine meeting of rabbis.

Cohn also shows how quickly, how widely, and how deeply the lie spread across the world, something that has gained renewed relevance today, sixty years after the book’s initial publication.

The book is rare and out of print, but I have a digital copy I can distribute to paid subscribers who want to follow along.

We’ll begin Warrant for Genocide in April.

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Next Book Club Live Session

Join us Thursday, March 5 at 2:30pm Pacific. We’ll be covering the following chapters of Black Sun:

• Chapter 10: White Noise and Black Metal

• Chapter 11: Nazi Satanism and the New Aeon

• Chapter 12: Christian Identity and Creativity

Live sessions are available to paid subscribers of this Substack.

Join the session at the link below 👇