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'''Bernhardt "Ben" Klassen''' was a politician, inventor, certified genius, nutritionist, and religious leader. He founded the [[Church of the Creator]] with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973. Klassen was openly pro-white, holocaust skeptic and was active within the pro-white movement. At one point, Klassen was a [[Republican]] Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of [[George Wallace]]'s Presidential campaign. In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of the electric can-opener. Klassen held unorthodox views about dieting and health. He was a natural hygienist who opposed the germ theory of disease as well as conventional medicine and promoted a fruitarian, raw food diet.
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'''Bernhard Klassen''' (February 20, 1918 — August 6, 1993), better known as '''Ben Klassen''', was the founder, and Pontifex Maximus (High Priest) of the [[Church of the Creator]], also known as the Creativity worldview. Klassen derived his ideals from [[Social Darwinism]], [[Nietzscheanism]] and had sympathies for [[National Socialism]]. He attempted to systematize these concepts into a coherent natural philosophy, or a contemporary pagan worldview to the benefit of the [[Europeans]]. Klassen was [[Germanic]] in ancestry, born to a [[Mennonite]] family in the [[Ukraine]] before moving to the Americas as a child.
 
Klassen was a staunch critic of [[Christianity]], urging Europeans to abandon it and blaming it's original rise on a Jewish plot to internally demoralise the [[Roman Empire]]. Contrary to the new Germanic [[Heathens]], however, he did not advocate a return of the old gods (or any sky "spook" as he describes it). Rather he advocated an essentially atheist materialist philosophy, informed by a racial socialism and [[eugenics]]; his ideals were the high cultures of [[Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient Greece]]. He was also notable for advocating a form of the [[vegetarian]] diet, specifically [[Fruitarian]] in basis.
 
== Early life ==
Klassen's family were originally [[Dutch]] [[Mennonites]], who for a time lived in [[Prussia]] and then in 1804 moved out to the [[Ukraine]].<ref group="note">Rumours of Klassen having "Jewish" ancestry can be dismissed. These originate from a disinformation campaign launched by [[Hollywood Nazi]], [[Harold Covington]] as part of his personal rivalry with Klassen. An extensive, externally verifiable genealogy for Klassen featured in ''Against the Evil Tide: An Autobiography''. Some of the Hebrew-derived first names can be explained by the fact that Radical Protestants are frankly weird and place a strong emphasis on the [[Old Testament]]. The disinformation became spread on the internet through an (apparently) [[Christian Identity]] website ''Judicial-Inc.biz'' and copied from there uncritically onto the ''[[JewWatch]]'' website.</ref> Klassen himself was born to Bernhard Kornelius Klassen and Susanna Penner in Rudnerwiede, part of a historical German-speaking Mennonite colony, close to the [[Crimea]], then part of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]]; the area would later become part of the [[Zaporizhia Oblast]] during the 1930s. Jakob Jakovlevitch Klassen, likely a close relative (possibly a cousin of his father), was the Executive Secretary of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement and he was murdered in 1919 by [[anarcho-communist]] terrorists beholden to [[Nestor Makhno]].<ref>{{cite news |title=[http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Klassen,_Jakob_Jakovlevitch_%281856-1919%29 Klassen, Jakob Jakovlevitch (1856-1919)]|author=Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online|date=6 January 2013}}</ref>
 
His family moved to Mexico when he was six years old and lived at a Mennonite colony, but soon relocated to Canada, in Herschel Saskatchewan.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/TheKlassenLettersVolumeOne1969-1976/kl1#page/n0/mode/1up Early childhood and life of Ben Klassen]</ref> He attended the German-English Academy (now Rosthern Junior College). At age twenty, he first read ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' in German and understood the powerful message Hitler was sending to the White race.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/TheKlassenLettersVolumeOne1969-1976/kl1#page/n1/mode/1up Early life of Ben Klassen]</ref>
 
In his personal life he was married to Henrie Etta McWilliams and had a daughter. Klassen was a school teacher, inventor, electrical engineer, real estate agent, land developer, politician, author, religious guru, and racial activist. In 1949, he founded the community of Silver Springs Nevada (see: "Against the Evil Tide" pages 174-188). In 1957, he patented the first electrically operated can opener.
 
== Political activism ==
In 1962 Klassen and his family were living in Florida where he was a member of the [[John Birch Society]]. During this time he was briefly a state representative in the Florida legislature. In 1968 he worked for [[George Wallace]]'s presidential campaign and became Florida state chairman of the [[American Independent Party]] (AIP). In 1969 he resigned from both the John Birch Society<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/TheKlassenLettersVolumeOne1969-1976/kl1#page/n5/mode/1up Ben Klassen's resignation letter addressed to the John Birch Society]</ref> and the AIP and formed the [[Nationalist White Party]]. In 1973 he founded the Church Of The Creator (COTC). Klassen coined the term Racial Holy War ([[RaHoWa]]) within the pro-White movement, and was the author of several books. His religious creed (Creativity) has spread worldwide, and continues to flourish in predominantly [[White]] countries.
[[Image:Ben Klassen tombstone.jpg|thumb|right|Klassen's tombstone]]
 
==Works==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/NaturesEternalReligion ''Nature's Eternal Religion''] (1973)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/WhiteMansBible ''White Man's Bible''] (1981)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/SalubriousLiving ''Salubrious Living''] (1983)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/ExpandingCreativityAnIdeaWhoseTimeHasComeConsistingOfTheFirst12 ''Expanding Creativity''] (1985)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingAWhiterAndBrighterWorld ''Building a Whiter, Brighter World''] (1986)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/RahowaThisPlanetIsAllOurs ''RaHoWa - This Planet is All Ours''] (1987)
*''The Klassen Letters Vol. 1 1969-1976'' (1988)
*''The Klassen Letters Vol. 2 1976-1981'' (1989)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/TheLittleWhiteBook ''Little White Book''] (1991)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/ARevolutionOfValuesThroughReligion ''A Revolution of Values Through Religion''] (1991)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/AgainstTheEvilTide ''Against the Evil Tide''] (1991)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/TrialsTribulationsAndTriumphs ''Trials, Tribulations, Triumphs''] (1993)
*[http://www.archive.org/details/OnTheBrinkOfABloodyRacialWar ''On the Brink of Bloody Racial War''] (1993)
 
==See also==
* [[Lineage of American Nationalist organizations and individuals]]
* [[Nationalist White Party]]
* [[Revilo P. Oliver]]
 
==Notes==
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==References==
==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.org/stream/AgainstTheEvilTide_634/eBook-BenKlassen-AgainstTheEvilTideScan-LQ#page/n0/mode/1up ''Ben Klassen: Against The Evil Tide, An Autobiography'']
* [https://archive.org/stream/TheKlassenLettersVolumeOne1969-1976/kl1#page/n0/mode/1up ''The Klassen Letters Volume One'' Klassen's correspondence with various individuals from 1969 - 1976]
* [https://archive.org/stream/TheKlassenLettersVolumeTwo1976-1981/kl2#page/n0/mode/1up ''The Klassen Letters Volume Two'' Klassen's correspondence with various individuals from 1976 - 1981]
*[http://silverspringsnevada.com/history_silver_springs.aspx Silver Springs, Nevada] Town founded by Klassen
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/17461934/Ben-Klassen-Can-Opener Klassen's electric can opener] (pdf)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/RahowaThisPlanetIsAllOurs Rahowa- This planet is all ours]
 
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Bernhardt "Ben" Klassen was a politician, inventor, certified genius, nutritionist, and religious leader. He founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973. Klassen was openly pro-white, holocaust skeptic and was active within the pro-white movement. At one point, Klassen was a Republican Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of George Wallace's Presidential campaign. In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of the electric can-opener. Klassen held unorthodox views about dieting and health. He was a natural hygienist who opposed the germ theory of disease as well as conventional medicine and promoted a fruitarian, raw food diet.

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