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ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler
The Anti-Defamation League ^ | August 22, 2006 | The Anti-Defamation League

Posted on 08/22/2006 2:04:20 PM PDT by js1138

ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler

New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."

After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told ADL.

ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.

"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."

The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions."

A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens."


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To: Mrs. Don-o
I'm told vegetarianism had an influence on Nazi thinking.

Right. It kept them from going from bad to wurst.


(This comment is about all this silly thread deserves.)

321 posted on 08/23/2006 1:02:38 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: atlaw
Not sure what your post has to do with mine. But as for your proposition that "in the absence of G-d there is nothing objectively morally wrong with genocide or selective breeding or hatred or mass murder or anything else," there is an unfortunate inverse.

"God" has historically been provided with a great many self-serving and arbitrary attributes, and has taken on many forms. He is a handy slate on which to write the conventions of morality. And consequently, "in the [presence] of God there is nothing objectively morally wrong with genocide or selective breeding or hatred or mass murder or anything else," so long as the person committing these morally reprehensible acts proclaims them to be the "will" of his God.

Which leaves us in a peculiar situation. If God is the source of morality, by what measure do we conclude that acts committed in the name of "God" are morally reprehensible?

Thank you for raising a valid issue instead of merely dismissing anyone who questions whether a meaningless universe and create and impose an objective morality.

First of all, when you define morality (as I do) as "arbitrary Divine decree," it becomes a little silly to say "if G-d is the source of morality." Of course G-d is the source of His Decrees! How could it be otherwise?

Second, you are assuming that all religion is either inherited ethno-cultural taboos from a prehistoric past and/or the product of human speculation. Is this assumption of yours self-evident? Are all religions equally moonbeams, the products of "holy men" who went off into a mountain somewhere and then came back and said "G-d spoke to me?"

I would also remind you that actually, all the "Biblical" religions admit that Judaism was founded by G-d and was the One True Religion at one time in the past. They all agree on this, but they all insist that it was replaced by something else--and they can never agree on what allegedly "replaced" it! Have you ever thought about this?

322 posted on 08/23/2006 1:02:51 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Shofetim veshoterim titen-lekha bekhol she`areykha . . .)
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To: tjd1454
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

See Note #15.

The collection called Table Talk is questioned by some; while most historians consider it a useful source, they do not regard it as wholly reliable. Ian Kershaw makes clear the questionable nature of Table Talk as a historically valid source; see his Hitler 1889-1936 Hubris London, 1998, xiv.Richard Carrier goes further contending that certain portions of Table Talk, especially those regarding Hitler's alleged hatred of Christianity, are outright inventions: see his "Hitler's Table Talk, Troubling Finds" German Studies Review26:3 (forthcoming 2003). However, although Kershaw recommends treating the work with caution, he does not suggest dispensing with it altogether. (The Holy Reich, p. 253)

323 posted on 08/23/2006 1:03:04 PM PDT by ml1954 (ID = Case closed....no further inquiry allowed...now move along.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

"I'm told vegetarianism had an influence on Nazi thinking."

Vegetarianism certainly inflicted flatulism upon the top Nazi.


324 posted on 08/23/2006 1:05:06 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Zionist Conspirator

> Thanks for admitting that you get to impose your morality on the world simply because you don't believe in G-d.

Where did I "admit" that? Or are you making it up?

> Now tell me again about what those awful "chr*stians" did to those poor widdwe Canaanite kids?

What? The Canaanites were pretty much wiped out by the time the ChrIstians came on the scene.


325 posted on 08/23/2006 1:06:57 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

You err.

There are plenty of biological reasons not to kill, steal, etc.

Very few animals kill their own, and when they do, it is under closely defined circumstances.


326 posted on 08/23/2006 1:07:24 PM PDT by From many - one.
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Since you didn't answer the question, here it is again:
If God is the source of morality, by what measure do we conclude that acts committed in the name of "God" are morally reprehensible?


327 posted on 08/23/2006 1:08:14 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
"I'm told vegetarianism had an influence on Nazi thinking."

Vegetarianism certainly inflicted flatulism upon the top Nazi.



Hitler was adamantly opposed to smoking (the first true niconazi) and believed animals were as valuable as humans too.
328 posted on 08/23/2006 1:10:55 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: FreedomProtector
I understand where you're coming from, but please understand that whenever you try to justify a belief in G-d because it serves a utilitarian purpose in promoting morality or brotherhood, you are undermining the concept that G-d is the author and source of all morality, and without Him it cannot exist (because morality is determined by His rules alone).

I do agree with the evolutionists who point out the unhappy, ironic, and inappropriate fact that many creationists are racists. However, this is no more nonsensical than evolutionists being anti-racists, since only G-d can define racism (or anything else) as right or wrong and in the world they believe in this cannot happen. They in fact are merely invoking a subjective hang-up for utilitarian purposes (evolutionism causes morality and brotherhood).

I also find it most interesting that whites who interpret the Bible literally are accused of racism while Blacks who do so are not. In fact, they're barely acknowledged. But then, that's easy to understand considering that they've always been AWOL on this issue.

329 posted on 08/23/2006 1:10:55 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Shofetim veshoterim titen-lekha bekhol she`areykha . . .)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

> (Shofetim veshoterim titen-lekha bekhol she`areykha . . .)

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.


330 posted on 08/23/2006 1:11:00 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: ml1954
Richard Carrier goes further contending that certain portions of Table Talk, especially those regarding Hitler's alleged hatred of Christianity, are outright inventions...

What we have is unreliable translations into English from an unreliable french translation of a German work by a known murderer and liar, justifying his existence.

331 posted on 08/23/2006 1:13:57 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: tjd1454
The "fact," it seems to me, is that Hitler's Secret Conversations is accepted as a primary source in numerous publications about Hitler (Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Brittanica, etc.).

Unless you're claiming Hitler spoke English at dinner time, Hitler's Secret Conversations (the Trevor-Roper 1953 translation) is not a primary source. The primary sources are the notebooks of Picker and Heim; the next most direct sources are the two published German editions of those transcripts. The first German edition was published by Picker, the man who originally transcribed Hitler's words. Those two editions agree with each other almost everywhere, and do not agree with the English translation. Jochmann, who edited Heim's notes, also provides some of the original pages to demonstrate the authenticity of the work. Trevor-Roper, who edited the 1953 English edition, didn't even speak German and had to rely on a couple of translators! Also, recall that the same Hugh Trevor-Roper was the historian who 'authenticated' the fake Hitler diaries.

The Trevor-Roper edition appears not even to be a direct translation of the German; it is a translation of Genoud's French translation of Picker's notes. Carrier thinks, and I agree, that Genoud, an atheist Nazi, added some anti-Christian remarks of his own; in another case, he was found 'augmenting' source material.

Any biographer who used Trevor-Roper's edited translation as opposed to the easily available German original is simply not doing a competent job. And a historian or biographer of the Nazi era who doesn't even understand enough German to read the primary documents should find another career.

332 posted on 08/23/2006 1:18:51 PM PDT by DanDenDar
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To: tjd1454
The "fact," it seems to me, is that Hitler's Secret Conversations is accepted as a primary source in numerous publications about Hitler (Columbia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Brittanica, etc.).

Unless you're claiming Hitler spoke English at dinner time, Hitler's Secret Conversations (the Trevor-Roper 1953 translation) is not a primary source. The primary sources are the notebooks of Picker and Heim; the next most direct sources are the two published German editions of those transcripts. The first German edition was published by Picker, the man who originally transcribed Hitler's words. Those two editions agree with each other almost everywhere, and do not agree with the English translation. Jochmann, who edited Heim's notes, also provides some of the original pages to demonstrate the authenticity of the work. Trevor-Roper, who edited the 1953 English edition, didn't even speak German and had to rely on a couple of translators! Also, recall that the same Hugh Trevor-Roper was the historian who 'authenticated' the fake Hitler diaries.

The Trevor-Roper edition appears not even to be a direct translation of the German; it is a translation of Genoud's French translation of Picker's notes. Carrier thinks, and I agree, that Genoud, an atheist Nazi, added some anti-Christian remarks of his own; in another case, he was found 'augmenting' source material.

Any biographer who used Trevor-Roper's edited translation as opposed to the easily available German original is simply not doing a competent job. And a historian or biographer of the Nazi era who doesn't even understand enough German to read the primary documents should find another career.

333 posted on 08/23/2006 1:18:51 PM PDT by DanDenDar
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To: orionblamblam

ia ia


334 posted on 08/23/2006 1:19:34 PM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I also find it most interesting that whites who interpret the Bible literally are accused of racism while Blacks who do so are not.

People are racists based on their behavior. I care not what people think.

I happen to have grown up in a town where the first integration of lunch counters was greeted with a massive purchase of ax handles and baseball bats. Many of the people buying these articles were nominal Christians. I know this not from news accounts, but because I went to school with their children.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had frequent cross burnings. The preferred place was across from my school bus stop, just a few blocks from my house.

The notion that Christianity and racism are incompatible is, by my first hand experience, ludicrous.

335 posted on 08/23/2006 1:24:06 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: Zionist Conspirator

> morality is determined by His rules alone

Sez you. Those atheists, agnostics and other non-Judeo-Christians who nevertheless manage to live lives more "moral" than many Christians dubunk your hypothesis rather quickly.


336 posted on 08/23/2006 1:24:14 PM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: js1138; wideawake
Perhaps not, but he is promoting a fraudulent translation of dubious documents that are equivalent to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I was merely making a remark about Kennedy's theology, not addressed to you (so far as I can remember). Most of the "chr*stian right" are Zionists, but Kennedy is a very classical Reformation Protestant, which is very different. He also promotes the notions of religious relativism and religious utilitarianism when he implies that each culture has its own "true" religion which holds it together.

Now, forgive me if I am wrong, but you seem to be implying that G-d and the Bible are an anti-Jewish, chr*stian document, and that therefore enemies of HaShem and the Torah are more "pro-Jewish" than people who acknowledge HaShem and the Torah.

I will give you a little friendly warning. I am a Noachide rather than a chr*stian. I have davnened with Orthodox Jews and still do so twice a year (I live two hours away). I have read the Bible in Hebrew for going on 21 years. I have numerous prayerbooks, two books on Halakhah, and even two tiqquns (which you don't even know what is, and it would take too long to explain it now). I correspond with Orthodox rabbis and Chasidim. The Bible is JEWISH, not chr*stian. G-d is the G-d of Israel, not of chr*stianity. And I am getting a little thin-skinned about all the "religious people hate Jews and we atheists love them, because they're all just like us!" argument.

The Jewish "trinity" is this: Israel, Torah, and The Holy One Blessed Be He, are One." I am sick and tired of people on both sides of the argument who want to divorce and disassociate G-d from the Jewish People and make him into an anti-Semite, or who want to make the Jewish People into the enemy of G-d. This applies to both anti-Semitic "believers" and "philo-Semitic" atheists.

If you are indeed laboring under the unfortunate notion that G-d and the Jews are enemies, or know better and are implying so in order to advance your argument, then I promise you that I whatever my deficiencies I am quite capable of running circles around the likes of you and will make you wish you were never born.

When Mashiach comes he will put a blade to your throat. I dare to venture that it will be very difficult for you to associate G-d or the Torah with the Southern Baptist Convention when that happens.

337 posted on 08/23/2006 1:25:56 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Shofetim veshoterim titen-lekha bekhol she`areykha . . .)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
In short -- the will of My God is the source of all morality, but the will of Your God "is either inherited ethno-cultural taboos from a prehistoric past and/or the product of human speculation." Hence, what I do in the name of "My God" is moral. What you do in the name of "Your God" is not.

A less than satisfactory resolution of the dilemma at hand.
338 posted on 08/23/2006 1:26:12 PM PDT by atlaw
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To: Dracian

Nazi's condemned Christ. They called Jesus the "illegitimate son of a Jewish woman". The waffen SS removed all symbols of religion during the French invasion.
Hitler promoted a pagan religion/cult of "Blood and Land".


339 posted on 08/23/2006 1:29:51 PM PDT by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006- No!! You cannot have my governor in 2008.)
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To: js1138
So if Hitler was such a good Darwinian, why did he kill the brightest, most talented and productive members of his society and promote the breeding of the Nordics, who, compared to the Jews were retarded? That's not very scientific.

And why are his racial ideas indistinguishable from centuries of German Lutheran antisemitism?

So, you think Martin Luther wrote Genesis? You are ignorant.

340 posted on 08/23/2006 1:30:27 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Shofetim veshoterim titen-lekha bekhol she`areykha . . .)
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