When white men, many of them deacons, would meet up at their local churches covered in white robes and white hoods to go and lynch an African-American in the Jim Crow South, they may have somehow thought they were doing the will of God — but they were not. They may have checked the "Christian" box on their local census, but claiming Christianity and being a follower of Jesus is simply not the same thing. The KKK were white supremacist terrorists. They weren't Christians — even if they claimed it.