Peter J. Peters

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Peter John Peters (born November 13, 1946 in Ogalalla , Nebraska , † July 7, 2011 in Laporte , Colorado ) was a pastor of the Christian Identity Movement and led the LaPorte Church of Christ and the affiliated mail order business Scriptures for 33 years American Ministries .

Life

Peter J. Peters was born on 1946 in Ogallala, Nebraska, to Alvin and Ruth Lynelle Peters. He grew up in Nebraska , where he studied at the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture . He moved to Colorado State University , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Business and Economics. He then worked for the US Department of Agriculture. In the 1970s he earned a bachelor's degree in Sacred Literature from the Church of Christ Bible Training School in Gering , Nebraska, and in 1997 took over the leadership of the LaPorte Church of Christ in Laporte (Colorado), a congregation consisting of about 100 members.

Peters expanded this church with the help of a mail order company, a radio station and a two-year television program into a propaganda instrument for the Christian identity movement. His Bible camps have been held in different locations since 1984 and serve as an ideological foundation.

In October 1992, Peters hosted a meeting of leaders of the White Supremacy movement in Estes Park, Colorado. In attendance were Richard G. Butler of the Aryan Nation and Louis Beam , a leader of the Ku Klux Klan at the time . From the point of view of many observers, this meeting laid down the guidelines for modern American right-wing extremism and the militia movement . The background to the meeting was the shooting of Randy Weaver's wife and son in the course of a federal siege.

From 2000, Peters tried to drop the Christian Identity label, but continued to express himself racist and homophobic in his sermons and publications . On July 7, 2011, Peter J. Peters died of kidney failure after reading a sermon on the same day.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data in: In Memory of Pastor Peter J. Peters - Scriptures for America
  2. ↑ Biographical data on Peter John Peters at Nebraska Webschoolpro - Low Junior High School  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / nebraska.webschoolpro.com  
  3. ^ A b c Bill Morlin: Influential Christian Identity Pastor Dies. Southern Poverty Law Center , July 15, 2011, accessed January 31, 2012 .
  4. ↑ a b Thomas Grumke : Right-wing extremism in the USA . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-2868-1 , p. 97 f .
  5. ↑ Breaking! Controversial Pastor Pete Peters Dies in Colorado. Christian Coalition of America , July 18, 2011, accessed February 1, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Peter J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Peter John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pastor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogalalla , Nebraska
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2011
Place of death Laporte (Colorado)