Posted on 08/28/2006 6:31:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
The Holocaust wasn't Hitler's fault. Darwin made him do it. Complicit as well are any who buy into the scientific theory that modern man evolved from lower animal forms.
That's the latest lunacy from one of our more fanatical right-wing American Christian television outfits, the Coral Ridge Ministries in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Coral Ridge espouses that America is not a free-religion nation, but a Christian one. It argues there should be no separation of church and state.
Thus it's America's Taliban, America's Shiite theocracy.
It certainly has a propensity for explaining or excusing Hitler. A few years ago it brought in a conference speaker to argue that American abortion was a more horrible atrocity than the Holocaust.
One year it disinvited Cal Thomas as a conference speaker after Brother Cal got too liberal. You're thinking I must be kidding. But I kid you not. Brother Cal had displayed the utter audacity to co-author a book contending that American Christian conservatives ought to worry a little more about spreading the gospel from the bottom of the culture up rather than from the top of politics down.
Now this: Coral Ridge is airing a couple of cable installments of a "documentary," called "Darwin's Deadly Legacy," that seek to make a case that, without Darwin, there could have been no Hitler.
Authoritative sources for the program include no less than columnist Ann Coulter, noted scientist, who says she is outraged that she didn't get instructed in Darwin's effective creation of Hitler when she was in school. She says she has since come to understand that Hitler was merely a Darwinist trying, by extermination of a group of people he considered inferior because of their religion and heritage, to "hurry along" the natural survival of the Aryan fittest.
Also quoted is Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Project, who tells the Anti-Defamation League that his comments were used out of context and that he is "absolutely appalled" by the "utterly misguided and inflammatory" premise of Coral Ridge's report.
The documentary's theme is really quite simple: Darwin propounded the theory of evolution. Hitler came along and believed the theory. Hitler killed Jews. So, blame Darwin for the Holocaust. Blame, too, all others who agree with or advance Darwin's theory. Get back to God and Adam and Eve and all will be right again with the world.
"To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler," said Dr. D. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries. "The legacy of Charles Darwin is millions of deaths."
Obviously, the theme is breath-taking nonsense. You can't equate academic theory with murderous practice. You can't equate a thinker and a madman, or science and crime.
And you can't ever blame one man for another's actions. That once was a proud conservative precept. In a different context, you'll no doubt find Coral Ridge fervently preaching personal responsibility. Except, apparently, for Adolf Hitler, to whom these religious kooks issue a pass. Ol' Adolf, it seems, just fell in with a bad crowd.
By Coral Ridge's premise, Mohammed is to blame for Osama bin Laden. Actually, Coral Ridge might not argue with that. So how about this: The pope is to blame for the IRA. And Jesus is to blame for Mel Gibson, not to mention Coral Ridge Ministries.
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Of course, RATs are great at attacking other Americans.
But you get real dizzy skimming useless words that fast.
So why are these gutter cultists getting airtime? It's like consulting David Duke on political matters. Cut off their media air supply and they'll go away.There's a certain amount of value to shining the light on the cockroaches. If nothing else, we set a good example for the moderate Muslims, who unfortunately are sometimes less than vocal in their criticism of Islamofascists.
-Eric
if not for the invention of gunpowder, we wouldn't have had to do a lot of other things either !!!!
mutually assured destruction does have it's high points.
I don't know about a direct connection between Darwinism and Hitler, but Darwinism, or the atheistic fundamentals undergirding it, led to the taking over of our schools and universities, because these people who have done this, and it started in the 19th century, think they can bring about a Utopia by programming the minds of students.
The idea is to play down individualism and maximise social dynamics, so as to create the ideal world, in which everybody gets along.
In the process they've thrown out the Judeo-Christian foundation of western society, not to mention freedom. That's why they get along so well with the Muslim crazies.
David Kupelian points this out in his book, "The Marketing of Evil"
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Bingo!
Brummet is the biggest idiot editorialist I've ever read, and that goes a long way. Everything he writes is so full of logical holes it is as if the man writes Swiss cheese.
Dr. James Kennedy is right on target!If you had read "Inspiration V/S Evolution" by W.B. Riley, Copyright 1923 all would see, one of the many consequences of teaching evolution as a fact would bring anarchy etc. Is it not here! He also pointed how how our college prof's. would use it for a tool for atheism. They are doing it! When I studied Geology as a freshman (fall 1954) they tried to harmonize evolution and creation (it seemed rational at the time). Compare, if you will,as W.B.Riley did, "We may well assume, by Darwin to, "Thus saith the Lord."
Meh....it all goes back to Marx...but you were close anyways.
"You can't equate a thinker and a madman, or science and crime."
Tell that to The Max Planck Society.
Anyone who would equate these people with the Taliban is a blithering, no-nothing idiot.
Actually when boobs like Kennedy stoop to demonizing Darwin and trivializing the holocaust in this way, it reinforces my belief that they do so because the really have no evidence to support their pseudo-theory of intelligent design.
More like no Nietzche no Hitler but even here the case is indirect & sloppy. I have read that something like half the German soldiers in the trenches of WWI had read Nietzche's The Twilight of the Gods. Whereas a similiar percentage of allied soldiers had read the bible. As I said, this isn't much to go on.
What can be said of Nietzche is that there is probably no American football coach who has ever quoted Nietche in a half time pep talk. (Or Feuerbach, Or Marx, or Hegel. Most college students in my time would read on the bathroom walls "Ghengis Khan. Immauel Kant.")
Its amazing to watch those here who love Darwin just pounce on this and not even have watched the show. Ann Coultier did a great job of explaining this link and why its there.
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