[Da_Shrimp]

To use Christianity as an excuse to kill folks or force conversions is being completely inconsistent with the plain sense of Scripture (both Old and New Testaments taken in the historical and theological contexts).

Thanks for the answer, DittoJed2, I appreciate it!

I'm going to argue with you, though: the 'plain sense' of 'Darwinism' does not argue a case for killing folks either. It's a faulty interpretation completely inconsistent with Darwin' writings.

[DittoJed2]

Oh, I didn't believe it did argue for killing folks. Not even in the racist rants of Huxley. But it did set up the environment for such to occur. Hitler was a whacko. He used social Darwinistic views and sought to purify the races from their underevolved selves. A sick philosophy, for sure, and not directly in any way promoted by Darwin- but not inconsistent with it either. Again, Darwinism is a Worldview with moral implications. If there is no moral law-giver than it is every man's preference. We would prefer Hitler not kill the Jews, but in Darwin's philosophy where all are part of some primordial goo and there is no lawgiver to hand things down, then it is every man for himself and one can not logically claim Hitler was right or wrong. Just that we don't like what he did.