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As a historian, I can point to Nazism as having sprung in part from Darwinian philosophy.

Simply because your pastor said Naziism was based on Darwinism does not make it so. And, your contention of being a historian means you hold yourself to a higher level of standards than that of the average historically-illiterate bohunk that occasionally pops up on these threads. We've been down this road dozens of times. You won't find many quotes wherein Hitler claims to be fulfilling Darwin's work, but we can post several wherein he claims to be doing God's work.

You opened up this can of worms. The discussion was going nicely up to this point. It can continue along that path, but the choice is up to you.

There is no such thing as "Darwinian philosophy." The closest you might come would be laissez faire capitalism. The Nazi philosophy was based on Theosophy and its corrupted teachings that God created a perfect race (the Aryans) and all other races are corrupted, or fallen, versions of the Aryans.

Hitler was an evolutionist, who believed that Jews were almost completely ape and that blacks were predominantly ape.

Simply because your pastor said Naziism was based on Darwinism does not make it so. And, your contention of being a historian means you hold yourself to a higher level of standards than that of the average historically-illiterate bohunk that occasionally pops up on these threads. We've been down this road dozens of times. You won't find many quotes wherein Hitler claims to be fulfilling Darwin's work, but we can post several wherein he claims to be doing God's work.
In my undergraduate studies, where I was also a history major (double major), the History of Nazi Germany was one of my better subjects. My final grade in that class (at a large secular university) was 106. Please do not accuse me of historically illiterate bohunk or accuse my pastor as having taught me a single thing about Nazism. My pastor and I haven't even discussed Hitler to my recollection and never even had what I would consider a conversation of Evolution. As a matter of fact, he's never preached on the subject. My knowledge comes from historical study and your presumptions are the epitomy of the kind of elitism that pervades your group.

You opened up this can of worms. The discussion was going nicely up to this point. It can continue along that path, but the choice is up to you.
Because I don't play by your rules and try to draw out philosophical implications of your belief system, I have opened up a can of worms. Well, fine, can of worms or no can, my comments on Darwinism will stand for what they are. I have posted quotes from Darwin and co. to back them up, yet the see no evil, hear no evil crowd still accuses me of trolling. Whatever guys. Whatever.