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."
"but please understand that whenever you try to justify a belief in G-d because it serves a utilitarian purpose in promoting morality or brotherhood, you are undermining the concept that G-d is the author and source of all morality"
One way to test a philosophy is to carry it all the way out to the end of its logical conclusions. Hitler did this literally with Darwin's philosophy, resulting in horrible acts which people know are wrong because God's laws are written on our heart Rom 1(Man is fallen yet has a conscience). These laws imply a Lawgiver. The purpose of analyzing Hilter's naturalisic evolution philosophy is not utilitarian purpose in promoting morality or brotherhood, it is a demonstration of the logical conclusions of a false belief in evolution. The logical conclusions of an authoritorian elite (in this case Hitler, but it could be Marx Lenin Stalin Julian Huxley in UN, etc) directing man's furture evolution is disturbing to the evolutionist as they observe its logical conclusions in the real world.
But oh so typical.
Citations, please.
Where did I "admit" that? Or are you making it up?
I define a sociopath as someone who rejects arbitrary Divine decree. Obviously, you define it as someone who doesn't agree with you, since you have no grounds whatsoever than your own personal hang-ups to condemn genocide (or anything else).
> Now tell me again about what those awful "chr*stians" did to those poor widdwe Canaanite kids?
What? The Canaanites were pretty much wiped out by the time the ChrIstians came on the scene.
My, you are dense. Then how come you think Genesis was written by chr*stians when there wasn't a chr*stian in the world at that time? Why do you insist that Genesis is inherently anti-Semitic?
You've never been to a Jewish service, have you? They read from a Seifer Torah that contains the Five Books of Moses hand written on kosher animal skin. Isn't that strange if Genesis teaches Nazism?
Klaatu barada nikto.
Please point to where I made any such suggestion.
This is my thread. I started it.
There is only one issue I care to discuss on this thread, and that is whether Hitler was motivated by science or by religious bigotry.
There are plenty of biological reasons not to kill, steal, etc.
Very few animals kill their own, and when they do, it is under closely defined circumstances.
Maybe, but that's not "morality." "Morality" means "obedience to the decrees of the Creator."
I'm sure there are sometimes biological reasons not to kill. There are also probably occasions when killing is biologically necessary.
Note that I do not claim that G-d has never ordered anyone to kill. In fact, He has ordered the extermination of eight specific nations. The point is that the person who refrains from killing when ordered to do so by G-d, and the person who kills when ordered to do so by G-d, is being moral. The person who kills or refrains from killing based on biology is simply doing what he "has" to do.
I also recall to you that the whole reason for rejecting G-d was because "like, He has too many rules, man, and like, we wanna be free, man!" At least that's what I've always heard. And now that you've allegedly gotten rid of Him those fascist, oppressive laws are still there! So what was the point? Oh . . . right. You wanted to touch yourself. It always comes down to sex, doesn't it?
You do go on so.
OrionBB did not say Genesis was writtten by Chrisitans.
You have not accounted for the fact that animals do not randomly kill members of their own species.
And now you've decided on your own personal definition of sociopath.
Antisocial personality disorder (APD) is a personality disorder which is often characterised by antisocial and impulsive behaviour. APD is generally (if controversially) considered to be the same as, or similar to, the disorder that was previously known as psychopathic or sociopathic personality disorder. Approximately 3% of men and 1% of women have some form of antisocial personality disorder (source: DSM-IV). Source.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Alouette, I wouldn't ordinarily ping you to a thread like this, but might you like to say something to our dear "philo-Semitic" friend here?
Good grief, you have projection problems.
And I don't think you are Jewish, as your tag implies.
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Let me ask you this. Do insects, plants, bacteria and lower life forms have religion, or practice any sort of morality ?
By most of your posts, they either have religion, believe in god or they do not in which case the absence thereof dictates they were not created by god.
Hitler was influenced by both Karl Lueger, Catholic, and Martin Luther, father of the Protestant movement.
The genocide of Canaanites predates Darwin placemarker.
You ridicule me for having a quotation from the Torah in my tagline (and it isn't even from Genesis!), and you expect me to engage you?
Obviously, wherever your "morality" comes from, it doesn't exclude anti-Jewish bigotry.
I don't think ZC is, in fact, Jewish.
I grew up in a neighborhood that had frequent cross burnings. The preferred place was across from my school bus stop, just a few blocks from my house.
The notion that Christianity and racism are incompatible is, by my first hand experience, ludicrous.
I didn't say otherwise. In fact, I am not defending chr*stianity. I don't give a hoot for chr*stianity. It is a false religion that idiotic atheists have come to believe represents G-d, so they think that by attacking chr*stianity they are attacking G-d. Not so.
You have no reason to be opposed to racism, cross-burnings, ax-handles, or anything. Morality is Divine decree, and in the absence of a G-d to issue the decrees morality does not and cannot exist. You are merely giving vent to personal hang-ups whenever you condemn something.
BTW, the True G-d (who isn't the chr*stian "gxd") ordered the extermination of eight specific nations. This mitzvah in in effect until the end of time.
Now you want to talk about how the G-d and the Bible were invented by "racist chr*stians?"
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