[HerrBlucher]

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.”

[allmendream]

Can you provide a single quote from Hitler extolling the Nazi masses to slaughter Jews based upon Evolution?

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.

[Texas Songwriter]

Thank you for your post. Dr. Weichart was illuminating. I plan to read his book. I would add that Hitler in the European mileau with the teachings of Malthus and populations, Meade and Galton and their assumptions of Eugenics and the academic America (the same liberals who, after being humiliated by the Prussian induced holocaust), now, having endured, rightly their humiliation and horror as applied eugenics and now replace eugenics with abortion rights and the evolving culture of death, and the Nietzche superman, postulated upon a declaration that God was dead, seized upon darwinian theory as the methodology under his supervision and direction to bring Europe to such savagery that it is almost is incomprehensible. The eugenists have evolved, as a matter of social adaptation, in euphemeism and in deed, to seize the term "choice" to achieve esentially the same goals Hitler desired. Read G.K.Chesterton and he brings it all into view. Today the same crowd who is so incensed to be coopted with the Rhineland worldview, feign gaping wounds at the suggestion of a connection, which is ubiquitous and present for all who care to know about those connections. Academics and educrats, all lay claim to the stake in the darwinian juggarnaut and act apoplectic at someone who suggests the obvious. The Jewish scientists who worked for Hitler were similar in their devotion to darwin, Malthus, Neitzche, and Meade up until the time the 'selections out' began. Only then did their conscience and fear make them adopt a real world view of what was happening. The roots of eugenics lie in both darwinian evolution theory and Malthus. Darwin and Malthus have never been controversial in leftist elitist circles. Malthus said, go ahead and reorganize society so all are well fed. In the long run they could do no good, because they hoped to remove the undesirables...the miscreants, syphilitic, and feeble-minded. Those were the categories which led to other categories....leaving academics and elitist uncategorized or categorized as superior and suitable for life. The problem was that with better feeding and social saftynets, the very ones the elitist wanted eleminated, flourished. Something must be done. So Mr.Hitler determined, as per Nietzches' superman evolved, set about to do just that...Only Mr. Hitler got to do the categorization. The stongman, with the gun, always has his say. The rest is only a matter of method of carrying out his assessment, confident in the belief that 'survival of the fittest' is the only morality suitable for the day. Darwins' science gave justification to a simple 'speeding-up' what was 'scientifically' inevitable, given darwinists dogma. First we begin with Eastern European Jews and move on from there. And to our eternal shame, 'scientific elitist' in America "almost" convinced the country of this dogma. The Restriction League of Harvard championed the cause...consiting of the most prominent scientists of the day. Henry Cabot Lodge gave Congress on March 16, 1898 a speach in support of immigration restriction on Jews and praised the superiority of of the Germanic tribes.

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.