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To: Texas Songwriter
If your assertion that the Christian world view is consistent with the actions of Hitler in Germany I will simply have to disagree.

My assertion is that anti-semitism and genocide both predate Darwin and Christianity, and that it is nonsense to blame either. However, if you are silly enough to blame one, you are stuck with blaming both.

It seems the vacuous morality (lack of morality) of darwinian naturalism is absolutely consistent with what actually happened in the '30s and early '40s.

We already agreed that such things are as old as human history. You're beating a dead horse.

The Christian world view says, "Thou shalt not murder." The law of tooth and fang stays, "To survive you must murder."

Yet mainstream Christianity's official position on the Jews was anti-semitic for most of its history. I thought we already agreed to that as well.

Let me ask again: It does seem that anti-semitism was entrenched in mainstream Christianity for centuries until fairly recently. When would you date such a change, and which Sects led the way?

I think any honest reader of our conversation would agree that Hitler was ordered not by Judeo-Christian morality but the Darwinian pretext of survival of the fittest...Rex-Lex.

I think any honest reader would conclude Hitler used what he could to justify his acts, including Darwin and Christianity. Like I said, it's a package deal.

Might makes right was the order of the day, but it is not a JudeaoChristian teaching by a long shot.

Maybe not, but you yourself outlined many examples spanning many centuries where their actions were at variance with their words.

Anyone with a perfunctory understanding of the teachings of Christianity can see they are worlds apart.

Anyone with a perfunctory understanding of Darwin knows that it is simply a theory explaining the variety of species. People can and did twist both Darwin and Christianity for their nefarious ends. You simply can't blame one without the other.

404 posted on 04/22/2008 4:07:10 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H
My assertion is that anti-semitism and genocide both predate Darwin and Christianity, and that it is nonsense to blame either. However, if you are silly enough to blame one, you are stuck with blaming both.

I think any honest reader would conclude Hitler used what he could to justify his acts, including Darwin and Christianity. Like I said, it's a package deal.

I must say you are the first apologist for Hitler who placed the teachings of Christ as par moral equivalence with that of Hitler who I have run into. You are indeed bold.

419 posted on 04/22/2008 6:22:20 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I)
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