Between Hitler And Darwin
Think About The Connection Between Hitler And Darwin
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Hitler understood something about Judaism that even many Jews today don’t grasp.
I mention this because you’re soon going to be hearing a lot about a new movie, Expelled, which understands something about Hitler that, in turn, many Jews and non-Jews don’t or don’t want to understand.
Starring comic actor Ben Stein, Expelled is a snarky theatrical documentary about the suppression of American scientists who dissent from Darwinist evolutionary orthodoxy. Controversial stuff. What’s really turning critics apoplectic, though, is the case made in the film that Darwinism inspired the Nazis.
Which, in fact, it did. In Mein Kampf, Hitler used Darwinian language to make hisIs it time to reconsider Darwin?Is it time to reconsider Darwin? case for racial war against the Jews. He rallied the millions of Germans who bought his bestselling book with an appeal to biology, which, as he argued, revealed certain iron laws of Nature – principally the struggle for supremacy pitting the superior races against the inferior.
Defy Nature, he wrote, and then “whole work of higher breeding, over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, might be ruined with one blow.” The major Hitler biographers – Toland, Fest, Kershaw, Bullock -- all agree on Hitler’s debt to Darwinism.
A gentle soul, Darwin himself never advocated genocide. But in The Descent of Man, he predicted that the logic of natural selection made inevitable something like what Hitler attempted against the Jews:
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.”
What you would not readily foresee from reading Darwin’s writings is that the race requiring extermination would turn out to be us Jews. But Hitler perceived an inner logic in Darwinism that even Charles Darwin didn’t.
Comment: Must see: Expelled (film). See also Ota Benga: The Pygmy put on display in a zoo and Ota Benga (Wiki)
What must it have been like to be a Jewish child growing up in a Nazi Germany?
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, the wise words of Paul Copan come to mind ””What then of the children? Death would be a mercy, as they would be ushered into the presence of God and spared the corrupting influences of a morally decadent culture.”
I saw Expelled on the first day it came out. I give it a thumbs up. Actually, if Christians were to either protest this movie, or conversely, majorly hype it up like they did The Passion, it would receive much more of the publicity I think it deserves. My guess it that will go away quietly without getting much attention. Although, I hope I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not Hitler exlicitly followed Darwin's ideas or not, the de facto result is the same. I haven't researched it, but from what others have said, it sounds like Hitler actually was a follower of Darwin. But again, it really doesn't matter. The ideas Darwin espoused all lead to the same result, whether one considers himself a disciple of Darwin or not: Human life is basically worthless; life has no meaning or purpose; may the strongest win. Since life has no meaning and no eternal consequences, who cares if we kill each other off and only allow the strong or the people we like to survive? Who cares if one group exterminates another? They are simply showing their superiority by being able to kill off those they don't like.
Planned Parenthood has some pretty racist, nefarious history as well. Stein did a good job pointing this out.
A reviewer in the Minnesota area said Stein misreprsented Planned Parenthood, Hitler, and Darwin. I would say that this reviewer was confronted by some very difficult truths which he didn't want to deal face and deal with. Therefore, the easy way out was to use the old excuse that Stein was engaged in "misrepresenting" the views of others.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler endorsed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which described Darwinism as a Jewish plot. The premise is absurd on its face.
ReplyDeleteSo a minor part of a book endorsed by Hitler overrides the overtly Darwinistic rhetoric of the NSDAP? Um, not exactly. Sorry; the consistent habits do override the minor connections.
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