Hitler was a great evolutionist/Darwinist. Survival of the fittest, and he was going to be the fittest.
Must be Godwin's law for crockumentaries.
Historically, there is simply no question that Darwinism was a powerful influence on Nazi thinking. If Mr. Foxman and the ADL are in denial about this, shame on them.
Interesting, author William Shirer referred to Mein Kampf as "crude Darwinism" among other things.
The concept of the book is ridiculous. Did Hitler use Darwin's theory? Absolutely! Hitler stole what ever was around that fit his agenda, that does not mean the originators caused Hitler. Saying that Darwin caused the holocaust is like blaming blitzkrieg on Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler and Orville and Wilbur Wright.
I don't know if this video is "over the top" or if the ADL is going nuts again.
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....
...and others?? Millions and millions of 'others'.
The ADL trivializes the murders of millions and millions of 'others'.
Actually, Hitler drew more inspiration from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger than they did from Darwin. They had a lot in common those two.
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.
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Precisely
Oh, and as for the Christian supremacist stuff.....Kennedy just wants the judges to stop claiming that morality is an invalid basis of law. And any morality Kennedy subscribes to is dervived first from Judaism, so I hardly think it leaves Christians as supreme. Free? Yes! Supreme? Get outta here.
This is the kind of controversy that develops when small minds learn a little bit of something that is much bigger than they are.
I'm no fan of Kennedy's, and I don't know if the premise of this DVD is true or not.
What I want to know is how does the DVD trivialize the Holocaust? If there is no connection, or a tenuous one at best, between Darwinian theory and Nazism, and Kennedy's outfit is saying Darwinism is bad and -- see?-- it's the source of Nazism, then he's just doing what tends to be done these days whenever there is a discussion of evil -- tie it to Nazism whether there is a basis for it or not. I could see how Foxman might take offense at that, if that is what the DVD does.
But I don't see the problem with exploring the intellectual foundations and influences of Nazism, if done in a proper and valid way. There was an intellectual foundation to it -- it wasn't just Hitler's pure irrational rotteness.
Mark
>>>"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."<<<
No, it was the founders of this nation that "turned the U.S. into a Christian nation". It was communists and false "Jews", like Foxman, that have turned this nation from a God-fearing, moral nation into another Sodom and Gomorrah.
"I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory"
A lol of huffing and puffing, but I note that Mr. Collins does not manage to squeeze the word "false" in, here. I'm also wondering how the ADL came to the conclusion that Darwin is somehow trivial?
Those who make the argument that the Holocaust was a consequence of Charles Darwin are implicitly rejecting the influence of centuries of Christian anti-semitism. They are, in my opinion, engaging in a mild form of Holocaust denial.
It seems indisputable that Hitler based his ideas on his understanding of Darwin. Whether Hitler understood Darwin correctly or not is another matter. It seems that these days, we need to re-invent Darwin in light of what we now know. We need to explain what Darwin MEANT.... or would have meant if he had the advantage of our hindsight.
As with Darwin, so Kant, Hegel, Rousseau, Freud, Marx, Alinsky and many others have produced various spinoff schools with different flavors of leftist heresy.
Let me guess: Dr. D. James Kennedy got his doctorate at some nutjob unaccredited religeous nutjob mill.
What a nutjob.
Congratulations, anti-darwin nutjobs. Your Howard Dean has appeared. Line up.