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Three contrasting views of Ernst Haeckel (as held by Professors Weikart, Richards, and Gasman)
| December 23, 2010 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
The ideas of a long dead German Darwinist might seem to be of no interest to anyone outside academic circles, but interpretations of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) are significant in today’s culture wars. The important question is: “Did Darwinism contribute in some way to National Socialist ideology?” Since Haeckel was pre-WWI Germany’s most well-known Darwinist, this…
Hitler and Eugenics, Dawkins and Boteach, Concepts of God
| February 9, 2009 | Posted by admin under eugenics, Excerpts, Richard Dawkins |
That Hitler valued science is insufficiently appreciated. Some quotes from his Table Talk could easily have been made by such apostles of the New Atheism and enemies of Christianity as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, or Richard Dawkins. For example, he reportedly stated that people were attracted to religion by fear of the unknown or by intellectual simplicity, but the time would come “when science can answer all the questions.”[ii]
This source has many comments to that effect. Religion would “crumble” before the “advances of science”; science cannot err too much because it is non-dogmatic and self-correcting. Hitler is quoted as saying, “science postulates the search for, and not the certain knowledge of, the truth.” Religious dogma was in conflict with research, and would collapse “under the battering-ram of science.”[iii]
In what became a minor internet controversy, Richard Dawkins compared one Boteach
Excerpt from Chapter One: The Present Situation
| January 30, 2009 | Posted by admin under Christianity, Excerpts, Hitler, Holocaust |
In the recent past, it was much more commonly assumed that Christianity had nothing to do with National Socialism. It was believed that Christianity was basically benevolent, while National Socialism was basically evil, that Hitler was as far removed from the Sermon on the Mount as it is humanly possible to get. The great majority of Americans would have assumed that the Jewish experience in America was the norm, the result of the Christian influence on American culture.
The cultural climate has changed in the last fifty years, however, and the growing power of secularism makes people less inclined to view Christianity so tolerantly. The well-known support of German Christians for Hitler; statements about God, Christianity, and the churches by Hitler and by leading Nazis, including strong opposition to atheism; Hitler’s Catholic upbringing and his Concordat with the Vatican; the fact that Hitler never officially withdrew from the Catholic Church; the official support for “positive Christianity” in the Nazi party platform; the supposed fact that Hitler came to power in an overwhelmingly Christian country; centuries of Christian anti-Semitism; verses in the New Testament that seem hostile to Jews; the massacres of the Canaanites in the Old Testament-all of these and even other arguments have been emphasized by those who see more and more evidence of connections between Hitler and Christianity.
Reputable scholars and historians have studied Hitler’s ideology more objectively.
Reviews
| January 29, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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From Michael Gray at the British Church Newspaper: Keysor’s book is thought-provoking in the extreme, extensively researched and referenced and written from a clearly intellectual, rather than polemical standpoint. It is a welcome addition to a wide and controversial historiography and is worthy of serious consideration. READ THE WHOLE REVIEW From the Messianic Times: On…
Book Index
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Index 9 95 Theses, Martin Luther, 67, 84 A abortion, 41, 138, 176, 203, 379, 391, 392, 394, 449, 450 another holocaust, 451 Adams, John, 239, 240 Adolf Hitler: The Making of a Fuhrer (Who was Responsible?), Walter S. Frank, 235, 324 Age of Reason, The, Thomas Paine, 431 Ahasuerus, 319 Al Qaeda, 442 American…
Bibliography
| January 28, 2009 | Posted by admin under |
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Bibliography Amis, Martin. Koba the Dread. London: Vintage, 2003. Aschheim, Steven A. In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Avrich, Paul. Russian Rebels 1600-1800. New York / London: W.W. Norton Company, 1972. Bascomb, Neal. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young…
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