LaPorte Church of Christ is an independent church in
Laporte, Colorado
Laporte (originally spelled La Porte and alternatively spelled LaPorte) is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the F ...
, led by Peter J. Peters (November 13, 1946 – July 7, 2011) until his death in 2011.
Peters proclaimed that Europeans are the true Israel and that contemporary
Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
may be of the
synagogue of Satan (based on and ) and the descendants of the biblical
Esau
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(
Edom), the brother and nemesis of
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ...
(Israel). Critics labeled his message to be that of
Christian Identity,
although he rejected this label.
The church is no longer associated with the decentralized group of churches that use the name "
Churches of Christ
The Churches of Christ is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations based on the '' sola scriptura'' doctrine. Their practices are based on Bible texts and draw on the early Christian church as described in the New Testament.
...
".
The church served mainly as a platform for Peter's views and its membership never went above 100. It attracted
white supremacists, including the members of the terrorist organization
The Order who murdered radio talk show host
Alan Berg with whom Peters had clashed on Berg's radio program.
The church became involved in a controversy in Colorado, related to an amendment against homosexuality, which led to it being fined for a minor violation of election laws. Peters refused to pay the fine and the church was seized by the state in February 1993 as the debt exceeded $10,000.
LaPorte operates Scriptures for America, a
shortwave radio
Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave (SW) radio frequencies. There is no official definition of the band, but the range always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (100 to 10 m ...
service that broadcasts via
WTWW
WTWW is a shortwave station located in Lebanon, Tennessee.
WTWW broadcasts religious programming from LaPorte Church of Christ, a white-supremacist church with Christian Identity sympathies based in Colorado, carrying that church's Scriptures fo ...
in
Lebanon, Tennessee
Lebanon is the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 38,431 at the 2020 census. Lebanon is located in Middle Tennessee, approximately east of downtown Nashville. Lebanon is part of the Nashville Metropoli ...
.
Scriptures for America Worldwide Broadcasting Network
retrieved January 5, 2023
References
External links
Scriptures for America Worldwide
(Peter J. Peters' church website & radio show)
Influential Christian Identity Pastor Dies
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Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado
Christian Identity