[Gondring]

Yeah, and it's especially laughable when you have lines like the following in Mein Kampf:

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

and then this speech...

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded 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 for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, 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 my self to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice… And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."-–Adolf Hitler; April 12, 1922

It would be preposterous to pin either Christianity or Darwinism to Hitler's madness.

[Coyoteman]

It would be preposterous to pin either Christianity or Darwinism to Hitler's madness.

Yup, but it's the latest creationist tactic.

(I'm goin' to bed. I'll check tomorrow to see if this thread has evolved.)

[count-your-change]

The difference is that Hitler didn't practice Christianity but he did attempt to put into practice the principles of Darwinian evolution. Or as Mr. Orwell might say.’the death of the cell is the health of the organism’.
Stalin and his kind decided to skip the religious appeal and go straight to creating “the new Soviet man” by artificial selection instead of waiting on the natural.
Again, on what evolutionary basis would Darwin been able to object?

[shineon]

It would be preposterous to pin either Christianity or Darwinism to Hitler's madness.

Many brave Christians in Germany withstood Hitler. (Deitrich Bonhoffer to name one - who was rewarded with a noose around his neck.) Name one Darwinist who gave a hoot about what was happening to the Jews and Gypsys. I'm sure there was one, I just don't know about him.

[mrjesse]

It would be preposterous to pin either Christianity or Darwinism to Hitler's madness.

Except his actions lined up with atheism and Darwinism, as did the majority of his writings.

-Jesse