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Originally Posted by Thor
Sigh, like this hasn't been debunked, corrected a 1000 times over.
Read:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_hitler.html
http://nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm
Some highlights:
The hatred towards Jews and inferior races like the gypsies has pre-dated Darwin by 2000 yrs. The fact is that in the case of Jews, the hatred is spawned from the institutional hatred of the people since the crucifixion of Jesus. To suggest Science is to blame is about as clueless as you can get, the fact this long standing hatred of these minorities comes from 100's if not 1000's of years of hatred and distrust, ignorance, racism, and bigotry. Many of them accepted and propogated by the churches of western Europe.
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Hitler used religious language much the same as US presidents often use religious language: to appeal to the religious folks. After Bush's first term someone analyzed Bush's State of the Union speeches and compared them to Clintons. They found that on average that Clinton had more references to God in his speeches than Bush. Do you think that was because Clinton was so religious? The point is that politicians from time memorial have used religious language to appeal to their based. Using and believing doesn't equate to the same thing. The notion of a "superior race" comes out of Darwin's "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".
There is a reason you have sites that try to twist history into making World War II a religious war or the holocaust caused for religious reasons. They are desperately trying to prove their tired old mantra that "all wars(bad things) are caused by religion"; It's simply not true. The fact that they can't abandon their disproved mantra demonstrates that Atheists aren't operating logically. They are emotionally attached to their particular view of the world: It's called faith.
That same deep emotional angst has caused this thread. "Kirk Cameron must be stopped" because Kirk Cameron is challenging some folk's faith here and he has the audacity to do it on holy ground: A college campus. Well until the Atheists gain that majority they are dreaming about and religious expression/thought becomes illegal Kirk Cameron won't be stopped. Crying about it not going to help.