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."
Not true. there is an analysis on this thread by a Freeper fluent in German who has the original German documents.
As Hitler and Jim Jones did in the name of religion. what is your point?
My point is that we have a major religious leader perpetuating a fraud. Not as bad as genocide, perhaps, but at least as bad as CBS using fake documents.
Unlike Judaism or Islam, one is not born a Christian merely by being born into a family of professing Christians. Being baptized or answering an altar call does not make a person a Christian. The actions of the Nazis or the pogromists of Tsarist Russia are sufficient evidence to cast doubt on any claims of such people being Christians even if they were regular churchgoers. That there was rampant anti-Semitism in central and eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries cannot be doubted. Also not in doubt are anti-Semitic statements made by Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran clergy at that time. However, their statements were clearly un-Scriptural, as God stated that He would bless those who blessed the Jewish people and curse those that curse them (Genesis 12:3, Genesis 27:29, Numbers 24:9). These clergy were CINOs as much as Abraham Foxman is a JINO.
Ben Stien (from American Spectator and Hollywood) stated his thought that darwinism was a line pointing from the Gallapagos Islands directly to Auschwitz. I can't disagree especially since there is zero scientific proof for the darwinist religion.
Didn't bother reading the footnote, I see (not to mention the entirety of the text that you posted). Ah well, you're entitled to your revisionism, I suppose. Just don't expect others to buy the bull. And I notice that you seem determined to avoid the issue that commenced this exchange -- the good "Dr." Kennedy lied.
Hitler and Jim Jones both renounced Christianity in favor of explictly anti-Christian ideologies.
If yoy want to argue that the National Socialism espoused by Hitler and the Apostolic Socialism espoused by Hitler were themselves relgions instead of political ideologies, fine.
But don't conflate either of them with historic Christianity.
Might you agree, then, that part of the problem here is that, although Hitler was clearly not an "operational" Christian (your kind), he did use Christian-derived (to distinguish it from truly Christian) memes? And that makes many Christians itchy.
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My defintion of a Jew is anyone who Hither would have had killed as a Jew.
I am aware of the Jewish definition as a person with a Jewish mother.
Jim Jones was an ordained minister of a major denomination. He did not accumulate his flock under the banner of socialism. And Hitler paraded under the banner of Christianity.
One has to wonder how all the German people, most of them nominal Christians, were able to gain access to Hitler's secret conversations, as translated into French, then into English.
I would think most of the people who elected him and followed him would have had more access to his published writings and speches.
Do you intend to turn FR into a forum of the PC version of history?
Nobody said he wasn't Christian. Don't waste my time.
Don't waste bandwidth with nonsensical statements like "D. James Kennedy is not Christianity".
You really couldn't be more wrong about the biography of Jim Jones and the history of his ideological movement.
In 1964 he was ordained as a minister of the Disciples of Christ even though he was already pastor of the People's Full Gospel Church.
He was always part of the radical fringe of liberal Christianity up to that point.
Two years after his ordination he wrote a book entitled The Letter Killeth which rejected the inerrancy of the Bible, calling it "myths", declared that Jesus was not God and not the Messiah, but simply a teacher who had said useful things and some not-so-useful things. He was disfellowshipped from the Disciples of Christ. He then changed the name of his congregation to The Peoples Temple and moved from IN to San Francisco.
In SF he gave speeches outlining his philosophy of "apostolic socialism" and his rejection of orthodox Christian teaching.
As The Peoples Temple grew he claimed that he was one with the spirit of the Pharaoh Akenhaten, the Buddha, Jesus, Father Divine (a recently deceased black faith healer) and Vladimir Lenin.
He gave long lectures about the importance of Marxism and how The Peoples Temple was its perfect realization, and about how evil Christianity and the Christian denominations were.
One has to wonder how all the German people, most of them nominal Christians, were able to gain access to Hitler's secret conversations, as translated into French, then into English.
I'm not familiar with the text you're referring to and not arguing my position from it.
Hitler's public acts of promoting the anti-Christian work of Alfred Rosenberg as the Reich's official philosophy, his requirement that all members of his SS engage in specifically pagan rituals and his appointment of an openly anti-Christian pagan as head minister of the State Church - a man who publicly suggested that the Bible on the pulpit of each state church be officially replaced with a copy of Mein Kampf - all this is proof to me of Hitler's actual religious convictions and it was obvious to millions of German Christians as well.
Whether used by Nazis or Communists, it is all as phony as former President Clinton toting an oversized Bible to church before his trysts with Monica Lewinsky, in other words, image over substance.
Jim Jones was an ordained minister of a major denomination. He did not accumulate his flock under the banner of socialism. And Hitler paraded under the banner of Christianity.
One has to wonder how all the German people, most of them nominal Christians, were able to gain access to Hitler's secret conversations, as translated into French, then into English.
I would think most of the people who elected him and followed him would have had more access to his published writings and speches.
Do you intend to turn FR into CBS?
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