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On Phillip Johnson
In April, the executive producer of Judgment Day conducted an interview with Phillip Johnson. Johnson is widely credited as the father of the Intelligent Design movement. I found a profound lack of understanding of genetics in his denial of natural processes. I am not even a lawyer and I know better:
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Creationists for genocide
One understands nothing about creationism unless one understands that it is meant to be a system of ethics. That is why the assault on evolution has always included a lengthy history of moral judgments against evolution. Perhaps none of these judgments has been more accusatory than the idea that Darwinism led to the Holocaust.
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I have Hector's article bookmarked, and I was even considering writing a post about it last night when someone had linked to it in the comments at Pharyngula. And, again, thanks for the link, Greg.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | November 23, 2007 7:14 PM
'Father' of the Intelligent Design movement. You have to wonder about the other half of a sordid intellectual coupling.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | November 24, 2007 6:05 AM
Avalos' article is generally good, but he gets some Nazi history wrong--or at least not entirely correct.
Unlike Avalos' comparison of Hitler to John Knox or Henry VIII, Hitler was not really all that concerned with defending "true Christianity" against what he thought to be upstarts. He actually was anti-church, but more because he didn't lik competition for the devotion of the people that might interfere with the his state's desire for total devotion. However, he appreciated that the Christian churches had power, which is why he would coopt churches that would cooperate. There is still one church in existence where to just how ludicrous an extreme this cooptation was taken, with carved images of stormtroopers walking side by side with Jesus Christ on the pulpit.
That's why Hitler sought a Concordat with the Pope early in his reign, although he promptely violated it and started persecuting Jesuits and other Catholic organizations. Those churches that resisted came under increasing pressure and sanctions. Unfortunately, many churches enthusiastically did embrace the new order.
In reality, where Avalos has it wrong is that Hitler wanted to impose state will on churches and make them a tool of the state, not so much defend the "true Christianity." He picked the churches that aligned themselves earliest and most closely with Nazi-ism and gave them his stamp of approval. The role he envisioned for Nazi-ism was to replace the currently existing religions, but Nazi ideology was a strange mish-mash of paganism and Christianity more than anything else.
Posted by: Orac | November 24, 2007 8:22 AM
Here's another article showing photos of the church, complete with storm troopers walking with Jesus.
Posted by: Orac | November 24, 2007 8:25 AM