They maintain that Jesus was not a Jew, but an ancestor of the white northern European peoples. The Identity Church believes in the inevitability of a global race war that only white people will survive. According to a recent Identity directory, there are Identity churches in thirty-three states, Canada, England, South Africa, and Australia. Lamy asserts that the Christian Identity Church provides the religious and ideological underpinnings for various white supremacist organizations whose thinking is both conspiratorial and apocalyptic. From this perspective, Internal Revenue Service agents and federal judges are mortal enemies of the white race, and the county sheriff constitutes the only form of legitimate government.
Many Posse members refuse to pay taxes.
Not all, or even most, of millennial activists in the United States are members of the Identity Church or Posse Comitatus, nor are they white supremacists. They may believe instead in a conspiracy to deprive Americans of their constitutional rights and in the inevitability of a coming conflagration initiated by federal agencies, but they don't blame blacks and Jews. They listen to militia-run shortwave radio broadcasts, share information on the Patriot Fax Network and the Internet, and meet to listen to a parade of speakers castigate the federal government for its unconstitutional policies and programs. Many modern millennialists are not waiting for God to destroy the old system and usher in the new, Lamy writes. Their reading of the portents that foretell apocalypse encompasses political and economic developments.