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To: Stultis

Protestantism never taught anti-semitism, Luthor did.

wrong analogy


156 posted on 08/20/2006 6:18:57 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: RaceBannon
Protestantism never taught anti-semitism, Luthor did.

wrong analogy

A DIFFERENT analogy from what the article (and your own explicit endorsements of its thesis) uses, but in fact a far stronger one.

Your article claims that the Nazis and other racists used evolution to justify racist ideology, and thereby damns Darwin, even though Darwin himself (in proper context) never made such usage, and in fact undermined the scientific racism of his day with his own interpretation of evolutionary theory.

IOW it was explicit racists who claimed, after the fact, that evolution was racist. (Although, even though it was used, and there was a widespread "scientific racism" in the early part of the 20th Century that had fully incorporated evolution, evolution was among the relatively more seldom used justifications by Nazis and their ilk.)

In contrast, in the case of Christian antisemites, it was not just those who were first and foremost antisemites who LATER claimed Christianity in support of antisemitism. It was rather a principal ARCHITECT of modern Christianity who argued for the most extreme form of antisemitism, BASED WHOLLY ON EXPLICITLY RELIGIOUS GROUNDS.

In contrast to evolution, antisemitism was religiously motivated FROM THE BEGINNING, and only later emerged as a component of secular ideologies. (To it's credit Christianity, in the vast majority of its individuals and institutions, has played a key role in battling and debunking the modern phenomena of secular antisemitism.) Now, I agree with you absolutely that Christianity, properly understood, and its "highest" and most credible form, does not teach antisemitism. My only point in posting on Martin Luther is to highlight your blatant and inexcusable hypocrisy in applying one standard to Darwin/evolution and an entirely different one to Luther/Christianity.

264 posted on 08/20/2006 2:08:56 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: RaceBannon

So Hitler had never heard of Luther nor read him?


347 posted on 08/20/2006 4:44:48 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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