Editing Creativity (religion) (section)

===Afterlife and supernatural===
Creativity rejects [[supernaturalism]], affirming a [[Metaphysical naturalism|metaphysical naturalist]] worldview. According to its founder Ben Klassen, a member is "not superstitious and disdains belief in the supernatural... [not giving] credence to, or playing silly games with imaginary spooks, spirits, gods and demons." Members do not believe that Nature is a conscious entity, but hold to a [[Naturalistic pantheism|naturalistic pantheist]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publiceye.org/racism/white-supremacy.html |title=The Website of Political Research Associates |website=PublicEye.org |access-date=2016-05-25}}</ref><ref>America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States</ref>{{page needed|date=December 2020}} view of "everything [is] in [[Nature]]"—"the whole cosmos, the total universe, including its millions of natural laws through space and time".<ref>{{cite book |last=Klassen |first=Ben |chapter=The Laws of Nature Are Eternal |title=Nature's Eternal Religion |location=Lighthouse Point, FL |publisher=Ken Klassen |title-link=Nature's Eternal Religion}}</ref>

Members reject the concept of an [[afterlife]] believing that individual genetic "immortality" is attained through [[reproduction]] and [[wikt:legacy|legacy]], with a [[Eternal oblivion|cessation of consciousness]] of the individual at death. Creativity upholds [[Social organization#Collectivism and individualism|collectivism]] over [[individualism]] and teaches that life and death on Earth should be viewed in a "rational, fearless manner". Members believe that the [[Meaning of life|purpose of life]] is "the [[Self-preservation|survival]], [[Expansionism|expansion]] and advancement" of the white race with "continuance of the individual" attained through [[heredity]] and the legacy left to [[future generations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativitymovement.org/creator_library/english/wmb-59.html |title=Life, Death and Immortality |publisher=Creativity movement |access-date=March 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929204940/http://www.creativitymovement.org/creator_library/english/wmb-59.html |archive-date=September 29, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Whereas Klassen was classified as an [[Atheism|atheist]],<ref>God & Apple Pie: Religious Myths and Visions of America By Christopher Buck, p. 190</ref><ref>Religious Bodies in the U.S.: A Dictionary</ref><ref>Home-grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism WCOTC Background, p. 93</ref> and Creativity has been labelled atheistic by the press,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Missoulian |first1=GINNY MERRIAM of the |title=Town comes together before World Church meeting |url=https://missoulian.com/uncategorized/town-comes-together-before-world-church-meeting/article_3297e0a4-b2df-5de4-8eb5-22416779b359.html |work=The Missoulian |date=29 August 1999 |language=en}}</ref> he objected to the usage of the term considering it a derogatory smear word without meaning employed by believers in what he termed "non-existent spooks in the sky" while stating that the "organized atheist movements" lacked any "positive creed and program of its own to replace the superstitions it seeks to destroy" while stating that most of the atheist movements in existence at the time did not take any pro-white racial stance and that many of them were under [[Jewish atheism|"heavy Jewish influence"]].<ref>The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, p. 390</ref> Citing commonality, Klassen stated that both "atheism and Creativity deplore and denounce any and all supernatural beliefs, claims and superstitions. We do not believe in gods, devils, spooks, spirits, heaven or hell. We denounce all such hocus-pocus as being invented by men, largely for the purpose of controlling their minds and worldly affairs and extracting the utmost financial gain from them."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/wcotc1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021002233006/http://religioustolerance.org/wcotc1.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 2, 2002 |title=World Church of the Creator}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=RAHOWA! This Planet is All Ours |url=http://www.wcotc.com/holybooks/rahowa/rahowa-32.html |publisher=Wayback Machine |date=22 October 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021022001526/http://www.wcotc.com/holybooks/rahowa/rahowa-32.html |archive-date=October 22, 2002 }}</ref>