Creativity flag; the red field symbolizes the struggle for the survival, expansion, and advancement of the white race, and the white triangle on the right represents a "whiter and brighter world."
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Founder | |
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Ben Klassen | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Midwestern United States, Texas, Eastern Europe, Australia, Great Britain and Northern Ireland | |
Scriptures | |
Nature's Eternal Religion, The White Man's Bible, Salubrious Living, "Expanding Creativity", "Building a Whiter and Brighter World", "RAHOWA! This Planet Is All Ours", "Klassen Letters, Volumes One and Two", "A Revolution Of Values Through Religion", "Against The Evil Tide", "On The Brink Of A Bloody Racial War", "Trials, Tribulations And Triumphs" and "Little White Book" | |
Languages | |
English, Spanish, French, Serbian, Croatian, Ruthenian, Icelandic, German and Polish |
Creativity is a pantheistic white separatist new religious movement which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It was founded in Lighthouse Point, Florida by Ben Klassen as the Church of the Creator in 1973. The church's worldview is based on the veneration of the white race and the supposed safeguarding of its survival.
The Church of the Creator is promoted by two organizations: the Creativity Alliance (CA - also known as the Church of Creativity) and the skinhead oriented (The) Creativity Movement (TCM). The groups have common origins.
Adherents of Creativity are known as Creators. The church was originally founded as the Church of the Creator by Ben Klassen in 1973. Matthew F. Hale in 1996 formed a separate group known as the World Church of the Creator which largely supplanted the original Ben Klassen Church. The World Church of the Creator which - as of 2003 - has devolved into The Creativity Movement.
Following the demise of the World Church of the Creator after Hale's arrest in 2003, there formed two distinct groups known as The Creativity Movement and the Creativity Alliance/Church of Creativity. The two groups are not known to interact with one another.
The movement, as formulated by Ben Klassen, exists for the "survival, expansion and advancement of the White Race." Creativity has sixteen commandments which primarily address conduct and five fundamental beliefs, which deal with race. These include the belief that "race is their Religion", Creativity is based on the "external laws of nature, the experience of history, on logic and common sense", that the white race is "nature's finest", and that which helps the biological continuance of the white race on Earth is the "highest good". They believe that American culture is becoming "more decadent," evidenced by "black crimes, growing acceptance of homosexuality, interracial marriage, increasing drug use, and lack of racial identity among white people". Creators are encouraged to recite the "five fundamentals" daily. Creativity promotes a religious diet and health doctrine, 14 Points of Salubrious Living (a form of raw-food veganism), although it is not a religious requirement.