"Hitler was a great evolutionist/Darwinist. Survival of the fittest, and he was going to be the fittest."
He's dead Jim!
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."
Dr. Kennedy received his PhD from New York University, which I hardly think qualifies as a back country unaccredited Bible college.
Somehow, when I read your post, I thought of that old joke that ends, "Sheep lie!"
Why the antagonism toward God and those who follow Him?
I see by your post and by your tag that faulty analogies are your stock in trade.
Supporting science against willful ignorance is the most reverence for God (and those who follow Him) that one can have: respect for the human ability to think, one of God's greatest gifts.
A single source? Not good. When were these conversations made public? Do you have any more info about this Breiting fellow?
For now I'll stick to analyzing his public quotes with multiple verifications before accepting single sourced quotes that completely counter them.
answersingenesis has pretty much zero scientific or probative value. Even if you read this, it is full of assumptions about how the link MIGHT be, not a direct link.
And even IF there was a link, it still would be meaningless. Hitler used mathematics. So that must mean all mathematicians are responsible for the Holocaust. LIkewise, he was a vegitarian. That must mean all vegitarians are responsible for Naziism.
As this thread points out, you trivialize the Holocaust by even making such a specious and disingenous linkage.
Like another book, Hitler's Table-Talk, the notes were taken in short-hand.
That is not a point of authentication.
Unlike the Table-Talk, which Hitler knew would later be revealed, Hitler was assured that his statements would be kept secret. [Calic, p.11]
This also is not a point of authentication.
Moreover, the Secret Conversations were authenticated as written solely by Breiting (unlike the editing by Bormann).
That just verifies a single source, and adds nothing to authentication.
Also, whether others use it as a legitimate source means nothing to me, unless I can analyse their reasonings for using it.
Hardly an anti-Christian comment.
All Christians do not believe Darwin is responsible for Hitler.
An attack on a documentary is not an attack on Christians.
You are looking for persecution where it doesn't exist.
Calling one guy who is a Christian a nutcase is not anti-Christian.
Or do you think those Christians attacking Foxman are anti-semitic?
I would guess you don't, do you?
It is not a lie.
And personal attacks aren't acceptable.
When you can't argue the point, you attack.
If you have a problem with debate, maybe you should be the one to quit the thread.
Kennedy is a creep cut from the same cloth as Pat Robertson. They both promote ignorance in the name of Christianity.
Hezbollah is hammering at the gates of Haifa and these girlie-boys are going after Coral Ridge Ministries. Sheesh. No wonder Israel lost the war.
Are you saying even if there wasn't Christianity, Jim Jones would have wanted to control and brainwash people?
It's always been pretty obvious that abortionists, Nazis and those who pursue "social Darwinism" are cut of the same cloth.
No doubt ol' Abe is trying to protect some of his funding sources here.
Thank you, needs to be said more often...
(1)To hell with the ADL
(2)To hell with those who blame Hitler on Darwin.
Why do you hate America? It's because of you godless Newtonians that the terrorists will win, you know.
>>>Hardly an anti-Christian comment. All Christians do not believe Darwin is responsible for Hitler.<<<
However, no Christian would refer to James Kennedy's documentary as a "crockumentary", or label him an evangelical nutcase. Keep my comments in context, please.
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