Posted on 08/22/2006 2:04:20 PM PDT by js1138
I wouldn't be surprised that Hitler incorporated his twisted idea of evolution into his twisted idea of Aryan Christianity, but the idea that "No Darwin, no holocaust" is flat out wrong.
And the existence of Hitler's Reich doesn't make Christianity unsound, nor does it make evolution unsound.
And how were those quotes verified?
You should be skeptical of "secret quotes". They can be as tempting to make up as Hitler's diary.
See my post 61.
Those quotes are apocryphal.
Secret Conversations with Hitler, which records his vehement hatred of Christianity, consists of confidential interviews given to Richard Breiting in 1931. Breiting was a member of the German People's Party. In these conversations, Hitler reveals his aims and plans. Like another book, Hitler's Table-Talk, the notes were taken in short-hand. Unlike the Table-Talk, which Hitler knew would later be revealed, Hitler was assured that his statements would be kept secret. [Calic, p.11] Moreover, the Secret Conversations were authenticated as written solely by Breiting (unlike the editing by Bormann).
Hitler's Secret Conversations is listed as a source by Encyclopedia Brittanica for Hitler's writings and speeches:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215448
Hitler's Secret Conversation was used as a source by a History Channel documentary about Hitler:
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/search/search.php?searchtext=hitler&refinetext=&search_page=3&themes=&cts=&enc=22201
The book is used as a source for research about Hitler in academic publications such as the Institute for Historical Review:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:BzQTJ1LA-uEJ:www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p-93_Rollins.html+hitler%27s+secret+conversations&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9
Mark
> the existence of Hitler's Reich doesn't make Christianity unsound, nor does it make evolution unsound.
Correct on both counts.
Oh, like that's going to stop anybody from doing the Lord's Work!
>>>"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."<<<
No, it was the founders of this nation that "turned the U.S. into a Christian nation". It was communists and false "Jews", like Foxman, that have turned this nation from a God-fearing, moral nation into another Sodom and Gomorrah.
>>>Evangelical nutcases claiming Darwin is responsible for Hitler.<<<
I see the anti-Christian bigots are out in full force.
>>>Must be Godwin's law for crockumentaries.<<<
I see the anti-Christian bigots are out in full force.
>>>Any lie is permissible if it saves souls sells books (and DVDs too)!<<<
Foxman has a book and a DVD?
"The concept of the book is ridiculous. Did Hitler use Darwin's theory? Absolutely! Hitler stole what ever was around that fit his agenda, that does not mean the originators caused Hitler."
Well put.
>>>any link to nazis is a bastardized interpretation of evolution.<<<
As evolution is a bastardized interpretation of science.
Biblical Christianity is a comprehensive worldview as well, which Darwinian evolution is not. Because Hitler admired the anti-Semitic rants of Martin Luther's declining years or the altruism of many Christian leaders does not make Hitler a Christian. Nor does it make Nazism any more Christian than the borrowing of class warfare themes made the ideology Marxist.
Dr. Kennedy is NOt a nutcase. Cool your anti-Christian crap.
>>>There is no question that Christianity had a powerful influence on Nazi thinking as well.<<<
That is a lie spread by the forces of anti-Christ, like you and your leftist buddies.
You can cool your anti-Christian crap also.
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