Ok, you seem sincere, so I'll just pencil you in as ignorant. Race theory and anti-Semitism weren't invented by Darwin, you know. Gobineau wrote his vile little opus entitled An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races some years before Darwin released The Origin, for example. And the openly Christian habit of murdering large groups of Jews goes back over a millenium. Blaming Hitler's Germano-philic/ anti-Semitic/eugenicist/genocidal ideas on Darwin is simply idiotic. Darwin himself would have opposed eugenics, certainly as it developed in the 20th Century (mostly in the USA - the Nazis were quite the admirers of US eugenics programs, after all). The roots of the ideology of the Holocaust (race theory, anti-Semitism, 'Blut und Erde', etc.) go back far, far boyond 1859 and Darwin.
"Without centuries of Christian anti-Semitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed." (Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury)
You might consider learning something about a subject before you make pronouncements on it. Or is reading books that don't agree with your ignorant prejudices against your 'religion'? It seems to be the same worshipping of ignorance exhibited by Coulter and Kennedy.
Kennedy makes me ashamed to be Presbyterian.
--R.
Kennedy makes me ashamed to be Presbyterian.
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but likely you're pcusa so it doesn't count.
In 1960, liberals and "me-too" Republicans (the RINOs of that day) would sneer at the likes of Barry Goldwater or William Buckley by saying that George Lincoln Rockwell (head of the American Nazi Party) or Robert Shelton (head of a large Ku Klux Klan faction) were just like Goldwater or Buckley, just more enthusiastic. In our time, their heirs attempt to establish the same connection between David Duke and Ann Coulter or Tom Tancredo. Liberals and RINOs have a vested interest in linking American conservatism with fascist and white supremacist beliefs in order to discredit their opponents.
In fact, American conservatism derives from the political and philosophical principles of the founders of this republic, which derived from a combination of Christian (especially Calvinist) beliefs and Enlightenment philosophy. American conservatism is in essence classical liberalism. Modern liberals are essentially secular humanists and moderate socialists who operate under false pretenses.
The facts are that the National Socialist ideology and the personal beliefs of Hitler derived from a mixture of neo-paganism, eugenics (a corrupted form of Darwinism), a version of Nietzschean philosophy, and socialism smuggled in from Marxist and utopian socialist sources. Quoting some liberal Anglican archbishop hardly proves a connection between the Holocaust and orthodox Christianity.
As for Dr. Kennedy, he is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a conservative, Bible-believing denomination that is opposed to homosexual marriages, abortion, euthanasia, and other perversions. The PCA stands in sharp contrast with the Presbyterian Church, USA, which has apostatized from orthodox Christianity and Biblical teachings at the denominational level.