Christian Identity and Creativity are funny because they basically have the same backstory as Odinism or Wicca - someone committed to a project of palingenetic nationalism thought it needed a religious component, and decided to “revive” the “ancient, historic faith” of the nation, which they did by combining one part contemporary folk tales and practices projected backwards, one part avant-garde neo-mysticism, and two parts of the founders’ personal charisma and off-the-top-of-the-head mythology.

Now the ancient, historic faith of white Americans was, obviously, Christianity, and the hilarious part is that the fact that this was still a living and well-documented religion in no way prevented the whole process from proceeding along the exact same lines.