[1] In 1970, he founded the Mountain Church of Jesus Christ the Savior on his property in Cohoctah Township, becoming a major "dualist" religious leader, and allied himself with various groups that constituted the racist and anti-Semitic political-religious movement known as Christian Identity, including Aryan Nations.
"[2]In 1970, he founded the Mountain Church of Jesus Christ the Savior on his property in Cohoctah Township, becoming a major "dualist" religious leader, and allied himself with various groups that constituted the racist and anti-Semitic political-religious movement known as Christian Identity, including Aryan Nations.
According to the political scientist Michael Barkun, his dualistic theology was important despite its idiosyncrasies, and "the avuncular Miles functioned as a kind of elder statesman of the racial movement".
[5][6] Following the Greensboro Massacre on November 3, 1979, where anti-Klan communist activists were killed, "a number of previously antagonistic White Supremacist groups, including the Posse Comitatus and various Neo-Nazi and Klan factions, began having discussions about how they could formulate a common ideology.
These different groups also conducted joint activities and began establishing informal means of communication including computer bulletin boards and cable TV programs.
Centers of this movement included Miles' Michigan farm, as well as the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, the site of Identity Pastor Richard Butler's Church of Jesus Christ–Christian.