[MrB]

Another aspect of Humanism is the belief in the “superman”.
Humanists believe that the level of moral and intellectual achievement can be far superior in certain “super” people, and this goes hand in glove with an evolutionary worldview.

When communists would invade a country or society, they wouldn’t extol the benefits of communism so much as they would teach evolution. Having this basis for belief leads inexorably to atheism/nihilism, which in turn empowers the State as the only eternal entity, superior to the rights and desires of the people under that State.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Funny, isn’t it? They believe that only the “best and brightest” should govern us and know what is best for us, yet the same people deny the bell curve distribution of intelligence.

[TXnMA]

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Boring and non sequitur. Knock it off!

[allmendream]

The Soviet Communists disavowed Darwinian evolution, as it smacked to much of capitalism with unequal rewards and individual excellence, in favor of Lamarkian evolution - where the desire and act towards becoming something somehow made it so. As if the sons of arm wrestlers would naturally be born with one arm stronger, and the children of swimmers would be more likely to be born with webbed feet. As if the desire to become a good Communist citizen would birth people without a desire to excel personally.

It didn't work. It was wrong. But they were hardly Darwinists. And nothing in Darwinian evolution suggests that anyone is going to be “super”.