Reference: Neo-Nazi Supremacist Church of the Creator (COTC)

The Reference of:
World-Church-Of-The-Creator (WCOTC/COTC)

Source:
Southern Poverty Law Center / SPLC
World Church of the creator WCOTC/COTC

Creativity Movement

This is a self-styled religious organization, the Creativity Movement incessantly promotes what it sees as the inherent superiority and "creativity" of the white race.  About the only tenets there are to its supposed "theology."  The group was formed in 1973 as the Church of the Creator and was later renamed the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC).

Extremist Group Info:  SPLC Designated Hate Group

Date Founded:  1973

Location:  East Peoria, IL

Ideology:  Neo-Nazi

Associated Extremist Profiles

1. Ben  Klassen:

Born: Bernhardt Klassen, (aka: Ben  Klassen), February 20, 1918 in the village of Rudnerweide, Ukrainian People's Republic and Died August 6, 1993 at the aged 75 and layed into his Resting place in the United-States town of Otto, North Carolina.  Ben Klassen was a self-described white separatist and racial purist American politician who was also a religious leader who founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973.  At one point, Klassen was a Republican Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of George Wallace's presidential campaign.   In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of a wall-mounted electric can-opener.   After the 1993 suicide of Ben Klassen, who initially formed the group in 1973 as the Church of the Creator and wrote a number of foundational texts, new leader Matt Hale renamed it the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) in 1996.    The group, largely composed of racist skinheads, developed a reputation for the rampant criminal violence of its members and the verbal violence of Hale.   After Hale was convicted of soliciting the murder of a federal judge in 2004 — and the group was ordered to change its name because of a ruling in a copyright infringement trial — the once-formidable outfit now known as the Creativity Movement all but collapsed, leaving only weak remnants.

WikiPedia Ben Klassen Source Data: 

Bernhardt^[1] (or Ben) Klassen February 20, 1918 (O.S. February 7, 1918) – August 6, 1993) was a self-described white separatist and racial purist American politician who was also a religious leader who founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his book Nature's Eternal Religion in 1973.
At one point, Klassen was a Republican Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of George Wallace's presidential campaign. In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of a wall-mounted electric can-opener.^[2][3][4]

2. Matt Hale:

Matt Hale spent years pumping out violent and aggressive propaganda, particularly once he became "Pontifex Maximus" of the World Church of the Creator, which for a time was one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in America.

Matthew F. Hale (aka: Matt Hale)

Matthew F. Hale (aka: Matt Hale).
Date-Of-Birth(DOB): July 27, 1971 (age 47)
Known Religion: Creativity
Nationality: American/U.S.Citizen
Possition in COTC: Senior posting
Period in office: 1996–2005
Successor: James Logsdon
Education: Bradley University (B.A.); Southern Illinois University Carbondale (J.D.)
Years active in COTC: 1983–2005
U.S. Citizen Criminal Profile: White supremacy, federal soliciting to murder conviction
Born Home Town: East Peoria, Illinois, United States
Matthew F. Hale's Birthing Parent(s): Russell Hale and Evelyn Hutcheson
Criminal Status: Incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, prisoner number 15177-424
Matt Hale's Conviction(s): Soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill Judge Joan Lefkow
Criminal Sentencing-Penalty: 40-year prison term
Correctional Facility Title: Pontifex Maximus

Source:  WikiPedia Matthew F. Hale, (aka: Matt Hale), Source Data:

Matthew F. "Matt" Hale (born July 27, 1971)^[5] is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and a convicted felon.^[6] Hale was the founder of the East Peoria, Illinois-based white separatist group then known as the World Church of the Creator (now called The Creativity Movement), and he declared himself its Pontifex Maximus (Latin for "highest priest") in continuation of the Church of the Creator organization founded by Ben Klassen in 1973.^[7]  In 1998, Hale was barred from practicing law in Illinois by the state panel that evaluates the character and fitness of prospective lawyers. The panel stated that Hale's incitement of racial hatred, for the ultimate purpose of depriving selected groups of their legal rights, was blatantly immoral and rendered him unfit to be a lawyer.^[8][9]  In 2005, Hale was sentenced to a 40-year federal prison term for encouraging an undercover FBI informant to kill federal judge Joan Lefkow.^[7] He is currently serving his sentence at ADX Florence with a projected release date of December 6, 2037

Source: PSouthern Poverty Law Center / SPLC

Matt Hale's Extremist Info:

Born: 1971

Group: Creativity Movement

Location: Imprisoned

Ideology: Neo-Nazi

About Matt Hale:

At the age of 11, Matt Hale realized he was a white supremacist. He would spend the next two decades involved in white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups while still living in his childhood bedroom. Hale spent years pumping out violent and aggressive propaganda, particularly once he became "Pontifex Maximus" of the World Church of the Creator, which for a time was one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in America. His beliefs inspired a killing spree by his follower and friend Ben Smith and led him to solicit the murder of a federal judge, which landed him a sentence of 40 years in prison in 2005. Since his imprisonment, the group he long led has been renamed The Creativity Movement and broken up into small remnants.