A former council chairman and church leader who joined the British National Party as a local organiser has dramatically turned his back on the far-right party.
The Rev John Stanton, who was Lib Dem chairman of Rochford District Council in 1997, admitted he was "stupid" for not knowing what the BNP really stood for when he signed up to the party about a year ago.
In yesterday's Echo, Mr Stanton, 75, who was the BNP organiser for Rochford District, said he joined the party because he agreed with their positions on Europe and immigration. But he has now said: "I have ended my involvement with the BNP after finding out more about them at the weekend. It was very stupid of me, but I only read what they said about themselves, which I agreed with. Friends have contacted me to say: Those people are nasty.' My daughter rang me sobbing and said: What have you done?'"
Mr Stanton, who also heads the Rock Dene Christian Fellowship, a house church at his home in Leicester Avenue, Rochford, said it was the BNP's views on race that turned him off.
He said: "I had no idea party leader Nick Griffin has been convicted of inciting racial hatred. I also discovered the party was anti-Semitic and homophobic. I was misled by what they said about themselves. The impression I got when they joined was that it was just a very British, Christian organisation. Now, I don't really trust anything that they say. If a West African came here and adopted British values and customs, the impression I got was he would be welcome, but according to the BNP he wouldn't be."
Mr Stanton, who spent four years as a Lib Dem councillor in Rochford in the 1990s and five years as a Conservative in the 1970s, said he intended to formally finish with the party by writing letters to the BNP's hierarchy.
No one from the BNP, which plans to field a candidate in Hullbridge in next month's election, was available for comment.
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April 02, 2008
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How many more will follow Mr Stanton following the rape business? lol
It has to be remembered that the BNP loathes Christianity, so it’s highly strange that Rev John Stanton joined the BNP in the first place. Below are examples of just some of the BNP’s real opinions on and repudiation of Christianity.
John Tyndall, the BNP’s founder, in his September 2003 article, Some Definitions: A sample from the 'Politically Aware Vocabulary' series, wrote:
What passes for Christianity in this country today can only be described as superstitious sociology; a bland doctrine of welfare-mongering with guilt, humility and self-abasement as its cardinal principles. We can only have contempt for a Church which, in the name of Christianity, facilitates the Islamic occupation of whole neighbourhoods, condones homosexuality, promotes multi-racialism and will forgive everything.
Our race is our religion, and the nation is our church.
Source: Spearhead magazine (edited by John Tyndall).
Then Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal officer (and occasional candidate), posting under the name ‘Vader’, stated on the neo-nazi Stormfront forum in April 2003:
The church is a nest of faggots and apostates.
They use Christ to promote an agenda of communism.
The Christian Church has become a homosexual death cult infiltrated by pederasts.
Truly we are in the Age of Ulro ( Willam Blake ) and the Kali Yuga ( savitri Devi).
Further to this, in his article, Cultural review of the Year (28 November 2007), Lee Barnes states that:
The teachings of the Biblical jesus and the Biblical christ are a mixture of truth and deliberate falsehoods brought together in order to create and empower the church.”
In the same article BNP legal officer Barnes then claims that:
The Bible is a political book constructed by Christians in the Roman Church from the time of Constantine to when Theodosius made it the state religion of Rome, and the allegories it contains were put in the Bible to support its own power and influence in the Holy Roman Empire. It is not the story of Christos.
The Church uses an allegorical astro-theological story for the life of christ because the christ the Church worships is not the true Christos of history or the Gnostic gospels. The christ of the Church is a creation of the church designed to serve the interests of the church and the demiurge Jehovah that the church worships, and therefore the christ of the church is a false christ who worships a false god according to the Gnostic texts.
There are fundamental differences between the manufactured christ of the Bible who is a creation of the Church, and the life and teachings of the Christos who actually lived. The former serves the Church and the demiurge Jehovah, whilst the latter serves the Spirit and the God of Amor who was Abba.
Most recently, Lee Barnes in his article, The Werewolf Complex (5 February 2008) goes to the extent of calling Christianity an “alien religion” forced upon Britain and blames Christianity for both the World Wars, communism and consumerism! Here are Lee Barnes thoughts on Christianity from the article:
“Whilst Christianity has seen its own traditions of violence from the Warrior Knight Tradition, the Crusades, The Inquisition, Two World Wars and also spawned Fascism, Communism and Consumerism”
“The idea that the basis of violence is such a fragile Norse meme is absurd, and ignores the reality of the violence inherent in the Judeo-Christian traditions of Judaism, Christianity”
“To deny the theological and actual historical violence of the Semitic religions as a factor in the violence of Western Society is simply logically unsustainable, especially when Christianity dominates the culture of the West.”
“I, along with Rudgeley, assert that it is the centuries long brutal surpression of our ancestral cultures that have been repressed by Christianity and liberalism, that have caused the organic and spiritual crisis in Western Man and that it today springs forth as violence.”
“Nearly a thousand years of the Judeo-Christian extirpation of the indigenous pagan religious traditions of Europe, and the attempt to impose an alien religion with its alien archetypes, has created the spiritual, social and cultural crisis in Western Man.”
Anti-semitism has much to do witb it, because Jesus was Jewish, a fact lost on the likes of Robert West, that white supremacist peacher turd who used to turn up at the Nick Griffin trial dressed as some sort of bishop.
The nearest Robert West came to being a bishop is when he bashes his (bishop) after a night out on the hand-shandies with Dicky Barnbrook.
what's happened to that weirdo griffinite robert west?
Is he about to recreate waco in the come counties, ketlan, or has he been locked up in a secure institution for his own safety?
Is this the Revs Damascus moment?
Tony Brewer, chairman of the BNP’s Central Management Team, has posted on the Echo website the following in response to Rev John Stanton’s resignation from the BNP:
“His [Rev Stanton] comments about the BNP being anti-semitic and homophobic are totally inaccurate and tend to indicate his lack of knowledge of the Party's policies. The BNP has a Jewish Councillor and Jewish members. In relation to a whether a member prefers opposite or same sex partners, the Party's view is "Don't ask; don't tell". How Rev Stanton got the impression that we would welcome a West African to our shores (irrespective as to whether he adopted British values or not), when we as a Party openly state that we oppose any further immigration into the UK, would tend to indicate the Reverend's confusion over and failure to understand the ideology of the BNP. As he now seems to have almost run the gamut of most political parties, perhaps he should set up one of his own!”
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/search/display.var.2159948.0.church_leader_stupid_to_sign_up_to_the_bnp.php
A couple of posts have been put in response to Tony Brewer’s BNP lies and propaganda including reproducing the above ‘BNP hates Christianity’ post, as well as the following post showing the BNP’s anti-Jewish nature:
To Tony Brewer (who is the chairman of BNP's Central Management Team), the BNP founder and leader John Tyndall said that the BNP should not have Jewish members in his article ‘Do We Need Jewish Candidates?: John Tyndall addresses a vexed issue’:
“When all this is said, the BNP should, so long as it is legally permissible, exclude Jews from membership, and in any event should not appoint Jews to positions in the party nor select them as candidates for elections. They would not do it for us, and there is no reason why we should do it for them.”
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