In his book “From Darwin to Hitler” Richard Weickart lists 6 key reaons why Darwinsim lead to the Holocaust:
1. Darwin argued that humans were not qualitatively different from animals. The leading Darwinist in Germany, Ernst Haeckel, attacked the anthropocentric view that humans are unique and special.
2. Darwin denied that humans had an immaterial soul. He and other Darwinists believed that all aspects of the human psyche, including reason, morality, aesthetics, and even religion, originated through completely natural processes.
3. Darwin and other Darwinists recognized that if morality was the product of mindless evolution, then there is no objective, fixed morality and thus no objective human rights. Darwin stated in his Autobiography that one can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones.
4. Since evolution requires variation, Darwin and other early Darwinists believed in human inequality. Haeckel emphasized inequality to such as extent that he even classified human races as twelve distinct species and claimed that the lowest humans were closer to primates than to the highest humans.
5. Darwin and most Darwinists believe that humans are locked in an ineluctable struggle for existence. Darwin claimed in The Descent of Man that because of this struggle, [a]t some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.
6. Darwinism overturned the Judeo-Christian view of death as an enemy, construing it instead as a beneficial engine of progress. Darwin remarked in The Origin of Species, Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
It is well known that he used anti-Capitalist rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and his own twisted view of Christianity; yet there seems to be NOT A SINGLE INSTANCE where he used Evolution as an excuse to kill Jews.
My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people.” Adolf Hitler
See what a shoddy tactic guilt by association is when it is our own ox that is being gored?
Was “Darwinism” responsible for the many pogroms against Jews that took place throughout European history?
What the word “ghetto” invented only after Darwin, as a word to denote where to allow the Jews to live?
Was the word “pogrom” only invented after Darwin to denote the widespread practice of European “Christians” killing of Jews?
Hitler inherited a great tradition of hating and killing Jews that went on long before Darwin published his Scientific theory.
It was in this scientific stewpot that Nazism was born. Scientific officialism and organization in the State which had specialized in them, had gone to war with the older culture of Christendom. Either Prussia would win and protests would be hopeless, or Prussianism would lose and the protest would be needless.
If one wants to understand the debate today, read Chesterton, an observer, real-time who almost singlehandedly held back the Anglican tide turning to that of the darwinist and eugenist. Read Weickart and learn from an observer, real-time of what really undergirded the Hitlerian regime. As Chesterton said, "eugenics (and darwinism) is a thing no more to be bargained with than poison."
Euphemisms soothe the leftist and always have. From Chestertons' day until now, nice word pictures of things not-so-nice direct perceptions among those unstudied on the subject. Like Nietzche and Hitlers' superman, the darwinist assert the upward assent of man to what goal...Godhood? Perfection? At what point does it mature? These notions are not new. Homo noeticus, 'New Man' is their stated new species. Some even declare when that will happen ( I won't say here, but if you are interested it is there for all to see). For now the eugenists progeny are becoming more clamorous at suggestions of the obvious, but they do not give ground to the self-evident history and their stated goals. They have locked horns with the Judeo-Chrisian world view and we find ourselves living in post-Christian country. Perhaps Mr.Stein is a modern day G.K.Chesterton.