What gets me is that by their "logic", Christianity needs to be "discarded into the dustbin of history" too. Have they forgotten about the CRUSADES?? Not to mention all the people who have been burned at the stake in the Christian God's name, the Salem witch trials, etc.
I believe it. They've gone completely around the bend. I can't honestly say I'd be surprised if they...called for the extermination of an "impure" race (like arabs, for instance) and internment camps for American dissenters from the Republican agenda. Because, on some extreme blogs, people have already done that. They've suggested dropping nukes in the middle east. Annexing Iraq as part of America (after kicking out the dirty, smelly natives, of course. Or maybe setting up reservations). They've suggested forcing Iraqis to make war reparations to us. What the hell hasn't been suggested yet? Annexing the Sudetenland?
Of course, this particular documentary is made by and for people who loathe "Dawrinism" although they haven't read a word of Darwin. The real villain they should be going after, the one whose ideas Hitler borrowed, was the man behind social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer. Except that conservatives love Herbert Spencer, because he favored absolute capitalism.
You got to love that "Before Darwin, human life was VALUED!" Uh-huh. That's why death by public torture was commonplace for many crimes we'd consider trivial today (including, uhm, blasphemy...) and why the anti-evolutionary American South engaged in horrific lynchings in the early 19th century, while the somewhat more secular North did not, at least not to the same extent and degree. A-yup.
Seems to me there's a pretty strong correlation between religious fundementalism and a *disdain* for human life. Once you've decided your morality is absolutely flawless and without question, because it was handed down by Gawd, you can turn off all conscience, all self-criticism, all need to ask "Are we really doing the right thing?"
And, of course, even if they were right (they're not!) that Darwin led to Hitler (he didn't) -- it still wouldn't prove evolution *wrong*, not in the slightest. That's called 'argument from consequences', and it's bogus.
There could be no conspiracy, no meeting of the minds, in fact, no meeting at all. About the closest they could come to each other is 6 feet through rocky soil, though even that was impossible as Darwin is buried in England.
But I'll give them a Godwin Award for their "best attempt to discredit science by tying it to a historic fascist in order to serve their current fascist ideology and goals."
Hey, apparently they're all going to move to South Carolina (http://www.christianexodus.org/). Me, I say we let them secede this time, and good bloody riddance to the lot.
I love this line from Coral Ridge's press release (see the comments linked to in Tom's post): "he ignores the historical fact that Adolf Hitler was an evolutionist"
And they're apparently ignoring the fact that Torquemada was a Creationist, right?
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Check out the movie posters: clean(ish) and nasty
I think it's time to brush off Fenton for the topical humor...
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Of course, this particular documentary is made by and for people who loathe "Dawrinism" although they haven't read a word of Darwin. The real villain they should be going after, the one whose ideas Hitler borrowed, was the man behind social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer. Except that conservatives love Herbert Spencer, because he favored absolute capitalism.
This is an old meme among the nutters...
Seems to me there's a pretty strong correlation between religious fundementalism and a *disdain* for human life. Once you've decided your morality is absolutely flawless and without question, because it was handed down by Gawd, you can turn off all conscience, all self-criticism, all need to ask "Are we really doing the right thing?"
And, of course, even if they were right (they're not!) that Darwin led to Hitler (he didn't) -- it still wouldn't prove evolution *wrong*, not in the slightest. That's called 'argument from consequences', and it's bogus.
http://www.pontification.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/43-Was-Hitler-Inspired-by-Darwin.html
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Quick, somebody demonize Henry Ford.
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Hitler was born in 1889.
There could be no conspiracy, no meeting of the minds, in fact, no meeting at all. About the closest they could come to each other is 6 feet through rocky soil, though even that was impossible as Darwin is buried in England.
But I'll give them a Godwin Award for their "best attempt to discredit science by tying it to a historic fascist in order to serve their current fascist ideology and goals."
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"he ignores the historical fact that Adolf Hitler was an evolutionist"
And they're apparently ignoring the fact that Torquemada was a Creationist, right?