ATHEISM, DARWINISM, AND NAZISM.
Darwinism and Atheism together have created a great deal of trouble in the world, and many millions of deaths have resulted. If you find this statement implausible, check out the following quotes:-
The following quote is from the book Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari (Ph.D. in History from Oxford University), published by Vintage, 2011, pages 259 to 261:-
“Biologists have since debunked Nazi racial theory. - - - Genetic research - - - has demonstrated that the differences between the various human lineages are far smaller than the Nazis postulated. - - - - The Nazis - - - FOLLOWING THE LOGIC OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION - - - argued that natural selection must be allowed to WEED OUT UNFIT INDIVIDUALS.” (My capitals.)
The next quote is from the book Why Us? How Science Rediscovered The Mystery of Ourselves, by James Le Fanu (Medical Doctor who has published in The British Medical Journal and The Lancet), published by Harper Press, 2009, page 162:-
Le Fanu quotes The President of The American Historical Association (in 1918):- “I do not believe the atrocious war into which the Germans plunged Europe in August 1914 would have ever been fought - - - had the Germans not been made mad by the theory of the survival of the fittest.”
The next quote is from the book It Ain’t Necessarily So, By Richard Lewontin (Alexander Agassiz Professor at Harvard University), published by Granta Books, London, 2001, page 316:-
“The explanation of evolution by natural selection served as an ideological justification for - - - - - the colonial domination of the lesser breeds.”
The next quotes are from the book The Pure Society, From Darwin to Hitler, by Andre Pichot (a researcher at the CNRS in Strasbourg, one of France’s leading historians of science), published by Verso, 2009:-
Page 21:- The author quotes Jacques Novicow (vice-président of l' Institut International de Sociologie) :- “Social Darwinism - - - a doctrine that views collective homicide as the cause of the human race’s progress.”
Page 32:- “The recuperation of Darwinism by the Germans and - - - - the case they made of it to claim a racial basis for their bellicose nationalism - - - - The Germans are most eager to invoke - - - the struggle for existence - - - highlighted by Darwin. In the name of Darwinism - - - condemns all the nations - - - to be - - - assimilated or destroyed by the German nation, as the species best equipped for the struggle for existence.”
The next quotes are from The Encyclopaedia of Evolution, by Richard Milner, published by Facts on File, 1990:-
Page 59:- “The Darwinian banner was - - - carried by militarists - - - During World War One, German intellectuals believed natural selection was - - - a law of nature impelling them to - - - - domination. Their political and military textbooks promoted Darwin’s theories as the scientific basis for world conquest, with the full backing of German scientists and professors of biology.”
Page 119:- “Natural selection justified Britain’s subjugation of other peoples - - - German Darwinism was - - - combined - - with militaristic patriotism and visions of German racial purity - - - - Hitler believed he was carrying Darwin forward - - - inferior races - - - eliminated - - - - Germany’s master race.”
Page 207:- (Darwinian, Ernst Haekel stated that) “They (ie:- The Germans) must accept their evolutionary destiny as a master race and outcompete inferior peoples, since it was only right and natural that only the fittest should survive. His version of Darwinism was incorporated in - - Hitler’s Mein Kampf.”
The next quote tends to show that Nazism was actually an anti-religious movement.
The next quotes are from the book The Coming Great Northern Confederacy, by L. Sale-Harrison, B.D., D.D., 11th (revised) edition pages 37 to 39:-
“The attempt to stamp out religious rites from wedding - - - - ceremonies - - - - The following quotation from The Scottish Daily Express of January 18th 1939 - - - “How to carry through civil marriages in good Nazi fashion - - - The ceremony must be carried out - - - while no religious ceremonies are to be combined with it.” Pastor Niemoeller determined to defend their freedom to worship God - - - he was placed - - - into a concentration camp - - - many other pastors - - - are now incarcerated.”
My comment:- The Nazis were apparently anti-religion, as was the Stalinist regime. Millions of deaths resulted from these two movements. The next quote concerns another atheist movement that resulted in millions of deaths.
The next quote is from The (London) Evening Standard, Friday 16th November 2018, page 26. Article – First Genocide Convictions Against Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge Lieutenants, by Ben Morgan:-
“Up to two million people are believed to have been wiped out under the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 - - - The court found that during their rule, the Khmer Rouge had a policy to target Cham and Vietnamese people to create “an ATHEISTIC and homogeneous society without class divisions” the judge said in the verdict.”
The next quote is from The New Yorker (magazine), issue for June 29th 2020, page 66 – article Overseas Operations, by Anthony Lane:- “The Holodomor, the famine that befell Ukraine in the years 1932-33. Current scholarship estimates that just under four million people died. They did not pass away from natural causes. The best and most detailed English- language study of the subject is “Red Famine”, a 2017 book by Anne Applebaum, who demonstrates that starvation was a deliberate policy, enforced by Stalin through the requisition of crops - - and the widespread persecution, deportation, or even execution of the non-compliant.”
My comment:- The Stalinist regime was an ATHEIST regime! To substantiate this, I copied the following from Wikipedia:-
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for an education process on religion in order to further disseminate atheism and materialist philosophy. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth Party congress, where Joseph Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive anti-religious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the mass collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of the few remaining private enterprises.
The main target of the anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and 1930s was the Russian Orthodox Church, which had the largest number of faithful. Nearly all of its clergy, and many of its believers, were shot or sent to labour camps. Theological schools were closed, and church publications were prohibited.[1] More than 85,000 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937 alone.[2] Only a twelfth of the Russian Orthodox Church's priests were left functioning in their parishes by 1941.[3]
In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500.[4]
The next quote come from the book Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic, published by Oxford University Press, 2011, Article – The Totalitarian Threat, by Bryan Caplan (Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University), page 505:- “The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany - - totalitarian regimes. By modern calculations, the Soviets killed approximately 20 million civilians, the Nazis 25 million - - most of the atrocities of the Soviet Union were directed towards its own citizens - - Maoist China was actually responsible for more civilian killings - - Modern estimates put its death toll at 65 million - - - The greatest of Mao’s atrocities was the Great Leap Forward, which claimed 30 million lives through man-made starvation.” (My highlighting.)
Maoism was an atheist movement. To substantiate this, here is a quote from the book The Liberal Delusion, by John Marsh, published by Arena Books, 2012, page 82:- “Mao launched his attack on Thibet and its Buddhist culture with the slogan “Religion is poison.” ”
Here are further quotes from the same book (The Liberal Delusion):-
Pages 81 to 82:- “History shows that atheistic regimes have a record of brutality, sadism, and mass murder; from the Reign of Terror and Vendee genocide in the French Revolution, to the Great Terror in the Soviet Union and the killing fields of Cambodia. The death toll of atheistic communism is over 120,000,000 - - - Lenin and Stalin hated religion. Communist regimes were avowedly atheistic and killed believers.”
Pages 132 to 136:- The Jacobins went on to inaugurate in 1793 the Reign of Terror in which over 55,000 died - - - The Jacobins were zealots for both the Reign of Terror and for atheism. - - In the short-lived Paris Commune of 1870 Jacobin ideas resurfaced - - - seventy clergy were bayoneted or shot. - - - Soviet communism - - Lenin attacked religion as vile, abominable, and filthy. - - - - “The League of The Militant Godless” was established to eradicate religion. - - - In March 1922 Lenin issued a secret order that the clergy were to be exterminated. - - - (Marsh quotes the author Lesley Chamberlain in her book The Philosophy Steamer) “One of the key aims of communism was to destroy religion in Russia.”
Page 142:- In Cambodia Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for the deaths of two million - - - Religion was forbidden - - - temples destroyed; people caught praying were killed.”
The next quotes are from the book How Darwinism Corrodes Morality, by Jerry Bergman (Ph.D.) (who has taught biology at the university level for over 40 years), published by Joshua Press, 2017:-
Page 3 (The Introduction):- Bergman quotes Harvard University Professor of Anthropology David Maybury-Lewis:-“Darwin’s Origin of Species - - - came to be considered as the “scientific” justification for imperialism [that justified] - - - -more “advanced” peoples [to have] conquered - - - more “backward” ones.”
Pages 230 to 231:- “Also often ignored is the Nazi’s strong anti-Christianity philosophy - - - The hatred of totalitarian movements towards religion - - - - Nazism, Fascism and Communism - - Christian clergy persecuted by the Nazis - - - about 90 percent of those clergymen were put to death - - - The Nazi war against Catholic priests - - In one incident the Nazis confiscated a local monastery library and burned all of its books.”
The next quote is from the book Evidence For God, edited by William Dembski and Michael Licona, published by Baker Books, 2010, Article:- Science, Eugenics, and Bioethics, by Richard Weikart (Professor of History at California State University, pages 97 to 100:- “In 1870, the famous Darwinian biologist in Germany Ernst Haeckel became one of the first intellectuals in modern Europe to seriously propose that infants with congenital problems be killed.”
The next quotes are from the book Ian Brady. The Untold Story of The Moors Murders, by Doctor Alan Keightley, published by Robson Books, 2017:-
Pages 12 to 15:- “The fundamental cause and reason for - - The Moors Murders lies in (Ian) Brady’s lifelong conviction that life is meaningless and the universe is without purpose. Therefore nothing matters - - - - (Richard) Dawkins - - - asked about the purpose of life - - replied “well there is no purpose” - - - - (Keightley comments) “ I have not encountered an uninformed dismissal of - - - life’s purpose that has been expressed so abrasively and savagely as it is in the writings and pronouncements of Dawkins.”
Pages 382 :- “Ian Brady’s basic view is that life is without any ultimate meaning - - - Richard - - - Dawkins regards questions about the purpose of life as “silly”. ”
Page 384:- Keightley quotes James Hillman’s book The Force of Character regarding Dawkins’ selfish gene theory. “The selfish gene theory - - - gives authoritative backing to the selfish individualism of psychopathy.”