Posted on 08/22/2006 2:04:20 PM PDT by js1138
ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler
New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."
After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told ADL.
ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.
"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."
The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions."
A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens."
You are correct. They are not the same thing. It's a worthy distinction too.
Hitler had an image of what the human race "supremely" should look like. He used deviant methods to form and shape the world into his image.
That's how a cult operates, in this case a white supremicist arian cult.
Since Hitler considered the arian race to be supreme he incorrectly applied the selection ideology, a Darwinian twist to justify his evil deeds.
Alinsky's "flavor" must be fattening, lol.
Somehow I doubt that anyone at the ADL has ever read this book. Secular Jews are just as uncomfortable w/ Orthodox Jews as they are with Believing Christians.
"Since Hitler considered the arian race to be supreme he incorrectly applied the selection ideology, a Darwinian twist to justify his evil deeds."
What, in your opinion, would be a correct application of "selection ideology?"
I'd say his was "un" natural selection application because it was not rooted in one's ability to survive.
No true Scotsman eats sugar with his oats....
So, "selection ideology" holds that Darwinism is only OK if not consciously applied? If so, the erroneous, conscious application of this ideology was the reason why "Social Darwinism" has acquired such a negative connotation in the modern era, along with all the other, erstwhile "progressive" policies in place, such as eugenics. It's denounced because it's cruel and inhuman ... even anti-human, isn't it? Wouldn't you say that Nazis practiced this "Social Darwinism?"
Let me guess: Dr. D. James Kennedy got his doctorate at some nutjob unaccredited religeous nutjob mill.
What a nutjob.
Congratulations, anti-darwin nutjobs. Your Howard Dean has appeared. Line up.
Insufficient data to come to a firm conclusion one way or the other. It is too early to rule out the possibility that the universe was created as a result of a Microsoft experiment in time travel.
And on Science, and on American Engineering, and on Biologists, and on Archeologists world wide, and on NASA scientists, and on Universities, and on and on and on.
There is no question that religeous teaching lead to people burned at the stake, stoned, broken on the wheel.
Excellent name here, BTW.
Umm..there's a vast difference between science and philosophy.
I bet a lot of Nazi Scientists believed that Force = Mass times Acceleration. Is that embarassing for today's Newtonians?
Do you believe there was a creator for the keyboard you just used? Insufficient data?
Or maybe Hilter was trying to influence Christians. Next, people on this thread will be claiming the Nazis never used propaganda. After reading Mein Kempf, I could say that democracy influenced Hitler too. He liked to talk big about stuff like God, country and freedom. His regime didn't have much to do with God and freedom though, did it.
Some of us don't confuse belief in God with Christianity. Christianity is a subset of belief in God.
The authenticity these 'Secret Conversations' is questionable.
Unless you are in a hurry!
Other good materials:
http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett012102.shtml
The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
by Heather Pringle
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786868864/qid=1156292229/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-9444238-6618324?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Here, this is for you.
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