The Root of the Problem

nedfarrar »

Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:00 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 0

I can only assume that despite having the letters Ph.D. After his name, D. James Kennedy is amazingly ignorant of just what Darwin's theory is all about. Claiming that Hitler was an “evolutionist” because he sought to breed a race of supermen is a bit like claiming dog breeders must be too, since they actively breed better dogs (and have created more than 400 different breeds since the practice began). I believe you will find quite a few conservative Christians own dogs and some participate in breeding.

It is true that one interpretation of Darwin's theory (known as “social Darwinism”) has often times been trotted out by racists to justify appalling acts of abuse and cruelty, but then so to are interpretations of biblical scripture, as for example this gem from Numbers: “And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.” And how many generations of black men and women had to endure slavery because some bigot declared dark skin to be the 'mark of Cain'?

As to Hitler as a Darwinist, well, Hitler never once mentions Darwin in Mein Kampf, or to my knowledge in any of his writings. He does however cite god as his inspiration 70 times in Mein Kampf, and his rhetoric was consistently laced with biblical references. In particular, Hitler insisted that his antisemitism was in defense of Christianity: "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross." from a speech in Munich on 12 April 1922.

Yes folks, Adolf Hitler was born, raised and confirmed a Catholic, stood as an alter boy at services, and unto his dying say maintained he was a defender of Christianity. Many of his arguments for prayer in public schools would not sound out of place coming from the mouths of today's religious right...from people like D. James Kennedy, in fact.