Thread: Who are the Christian militia 'Hutaree' and why was the FBI

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1361

This weekend, the FBI conducted a series of raids in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana to detain members of a Christian militia group on criminal charges. So what does this group believe, and how do its members fit in with the larger radical right?

The group in question calls itself the "Hutaree"; its website says the term translates as "Christian warrior." And in keeping with that name, the material it has posted online reflects an outlook of violent religious confrontation. The Hutaree believe that acts of violence can bring about the final judgment prophesied in the Christian Bible — and therefore have been arming themselves to go to war with the Antichrist, "evil Jews," and Muslims. They have documented their training exercises in a series of YouTube videos. And they spell out the theological rationale for their actions on the "About Us" page on their website:

Sounds like the group who were the scribes and authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The inhabitants of Qumran were from the Essenes Sect and they were very obsessed with religious ritual and wars of the last days. They viewed the Romans (kitem(sp?? I can't remember)) as their greatest threat, since they defiled the temple mount by slaughtering a pig on the alter. Basically, that drove them away from the Temple, since they could not clean it. This was the period of Roman occupation of Israel between the Jews leaving Jerusalem and the teachings of Christ. It is very likely that the Romans, the governing body, destroyed their community.

They also had issues with other Jewish Sects.

Fanatics are usually not very original so it would not surprise me, if they release information about the foundation of their belief system.

Dixie