__NOTOC__ San Jacinto Capt (April 21, 1889 - September 23, 1964) was an influential figure in the formation of

Christian Identity Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or the Aryan race and kindred peoples, are ...

. He was a former

Klansman The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians hav ...

, pyramidologist, and an advocate of Anglo-Israelism. Capt was the father of archaeologist E. Raymond Capt. Capt is responsible for converting

William Potter Gale William Potter Gale (November 20, 1916 – April 28, 1988) was an American political activist who was involved with several white supremacist groups, including Christian Identity and the Posse Comitatus. He had connections to the Church of Jesus ...

to Christian Identity and facilitated his initial training. According to Gale's interviews with journalist Cheri Seymour, Capt began meeting with him in his home in 1953. Gale and Capt began teaching groups together, Gale would teach the Constitution and the Bible, while Capt would teach pyramidology and Egyptology. Capt is also credited with introducing

Wesley Swift Wesley A. Swift (September 6, 1913 – October 8, 1970) was an American minister from Southern California who was known for his white supremacist views and was a central figure in the Christian Identity movement from the 1940s until his death in ...

, two of the most notable figures in the formation of Christian Identity from British Israelism. Capt had formed a pyramid study group in Temple City, California. Capt's role in the Southern California emergence of Christian Identity was to provide Swift with an audience that was receptive to the message. It is likely that Capt was responsible for the initial idea of the Christian Defense League. According to Gale's recollections, it was Capt who conceived of the idea for the CDL. This, according to Gale, occurred sometime between 1957 and 1962. Capt, along with Wesley Swift, is credited with bringing the two seedline theology into Christian Identity by Jeffrey Weakly in his book ''The Satanic Seedline, Its Doctrine and History''.Special Notice to All Who Deny Two Seedine, #5
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