This is far more muted language than that used when the company was known as Black Rifle Real Estate and ruled out "snowflakes, liberals, socialists, Marxists, communists and other tyrants that hate our constitutional republic". Image: A deadly gift for buyers of survival homes. While Flee The City's website says its clientele "hails from diverse backgrounds" all customers must "respect the Constitution and Bill of Rights". One company, Flee The City, tells prospective customers it will find them rural properties that will give them the "safety and security we all require during turbulent periods".Ĭustomers who purchase a property receive an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as a closing gift. It's hard to estimate how many people have been inspired to move to the American Redoubt, but there's certainly no shortage of estate agents advertising "redoubt" homes online. "It will be the second civil war, here in America and caused by the gulf between the right and left - or between the godly and the godless - or between the libertarians and the statists - or between the individualists and the collectivists." He has predicted that increasing polarisation in American politics will lead to armed conflict. Rawles encourages "freedom-loving Christians" to vote with their feet and congregate in the American Redoubt and prepare for the collapse of society. It covers Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and parts of Washington and Oregon, in America's sparsely-populated northwest. The American Redoubt movement marries Christian nationalism with the idea of armed rural living in preparation for doomsday, and civil war.įirst coined in an online essay posted to a survival blog by former US Army intelligence officer James Wesley Rawles in 2011, the so-called American Redoubt refers to a mountainous area where around 90% or more of the people are white. Moving to Idaho to prepare for civil war? Leader of far-right militia jailed for 18 years over US Capitol riot "I was pretty horrified that people I knew were there and that if I hadn't left (the church) maybe I would have been there. He was inspired to write his book, Preparing For War: The Extremist History Of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next, by the sobering sight of rioters storming the Capitol building in Washington DC on 6 January, 2021. Onishi is from Orange County, California but says that he could find 100 people he knew that have now moved to Idaho. Are they gonna tell you that? No."Īccording to Onishi, large numbers of Christians are leaving more liberal states to settle in Idaho, where they are trying to exert control over local political institutions. When asked if he considers Christian nationalism to be a white supremacist movement, his answer is definitive. Some of them will tell you openly that interracial marriage is a sin," he adds. "They will tell you that being gay is wrong, in all cases. "They want to go back to a time when they understand there to be two genders, a clear patriarchal structure to the family, a restricted approach to immigration, black people and other people of colour knowing their place in the country, socially and politically." "They want everything to feel like it's in its proper place. "Christian nationalism is all about order", he says. The clip then ends with sped up footage of the sofa engulfed by the fire.īradley Onishi spent seven years as a minister before becoming disillusioned and leaving his church.ĭressed in a flat peak cap and a black t-shirt, he cuts a fashionable figure as he warns of the dangers posed by what he calls white Christian nationalism. "Well I gotta get home for dinner," Pastor Wilson says as the video draws to a close. So how much of a danger is Christian nationalism?Īt the January 6 insurrection, flags saying "An Appeal to Heaven" and "Jesus is my saviour" appeared alongside neo-Nazi iconography as rioters poured into the Capitol.Īnd while hundreds of people have been charged following the events in Washington DC, experts fear that Christian nationalism poses the "greatest threat to democracy" in America, amid talk of a "spiritual war". Image: Crosses and flags saying "An Appeal to Heaven" were seen at the January 6 riots
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