In looking over the information posted on Wikipedia about Israelite Identity, it occurred to me that many of the founders and promoters of the Identity movement were prominent people and highly intellectual. Here are some quotes:
"[Israelite] Identity (CI) has first been traced back to the 1920s to Howard Rand (1889–1991).[14][15] Rand was a Massachusetts lawyer who obtained a law degree at the University of Maine."
Lawyers are taught to think logically and prove their cases with evidence. Law schools teach that lawyers are smarter than those of other professions because it is a "thinking and reasoning" profession. Because Israelite Identity is proven by evdience from the scriptures, whereas other religions rely on questionable and often contradictory interpretations, Identity attracts highly intellectual people because it is based on a logical, reasonable and actual interpretation of scripture. Students of I Identity are taught to look up the definitions of the original languages when interpreting scritpure, and consider the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts.
Another leading figure in identity is Bertrand Comparet (1901–1983)[26] who was a lawyer graduating from Stanford University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Jurist Doctor. He was admitted to the California Supreme Court or California Bar in 1926...
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