[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.

[Right Wing Professor]

Between 1865 and 1965, literally thousands of black Americans were lynched; thousands of others were burned out of their homes; millions were deprived of fundamental consitutional rights. What would you say was the 'worldview' of the people who did those things? Given that that 'worldview' resulted in untold human misery, would you say it was an evil 'worldview'?

[Da_Shrimp]

DittoJed2

Many people used biblical views to justify the cleansing/purification of non-christian peoples from their impure path. A sick philosophy, but not really in any way promoted by the bible (and I really do mean that most sincerely).

Christianity has a worldwide moral implication, inasmuch as anyone who doesn't follow that worldview is doomed to eternal torment. May as well kill 'em now, then?