Scientist Link Darwin and Holocaust
Gotta Love the OnionThere has been a growing debate between the pro-science crowd and the makers of the creationist propaganda film “Expelled” (The one with Ben Stein). Of course I’m referring to debate in a very loose manner as its impossible to actually have a debate when the anti-science position is represented by clowns who make everything up as they go.
Anyhow the whole affair started off poorly for the makers of “Expelled” when they had PZ Meyers thrown out of the theater, yet through an incredible display of incompetence allowed his guests to remain in line. Along with his wife and daughter PZ Meyer’s guest was none other than Richard Dawkins! Read his review of “Expelled” here.
If your not familiar with creationism, or as its called when they are trying to force it into schools - intelligent design, the argument basically boils down to … “Anything that science has not yet proven with 1000000% certainty is a wild crazy guess and therefore could just as reasonably be attributed to magic.” Thats a simplification of course, in practice its much dumber than that.
John S. Wilkins, a prominent Darwinist scientist has shown the courage to stand against Darwinists like PZ Meyers in support of the main point in Expelled, that Darwinism was the root cause of the Holocaust. In his story Stein is right: Darwinism causes antisemitism over at Scienceblogs.com (the same site that hosts PZ Meyers blog) has created a compelling outline of historical events. Here is a short excerpt and I highly recommend reading the entire history. I never knew how far back Darwinism’s influence reaches.
38CE: Thousands of Jews were killed in Alexandria, under Darwin’s influence, as reported by Philo.
315CE: Constantine published the Edict of Milan. [...] Jews lost many rights with this edict. They were no longer permitted to live in Jerusalem, or to proselytize.
325CE: The Council of Nicea decided to separate the celebration of Easter Darwin’s Birthday from the Jewish Passover. They stated: “For it is unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals we should follow the customs of the Jews. Henceforth let us have nothing in common with this odious people…We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews…our worship follows a…more convenient course…we desire dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews…How, then, could we follow these Jews, who are almost certainly blinded.”
337CE: ChristianDarwinian Emperor Constantius created a law which made the marriage of a Jewish man to a Christian Darwinist punishable by death.
339CE: Converting to Judaism became a criminal offence.
343-381CE: The Laodicean Synod approved Canon XXXVIII: “It is not lawful [for Christians Darwinists] to receive unleavened bread from the Jews, nor to be partakers of their impiety.”
367-376CE: St. Hilary of Poitiers referred to Jews as a perverse people who God Darwin has cursed forever. St. Ephroem refers to synagogues as brothels.
379-395CE: Emperor Theodosius the Great permitted the destruction of synagogues if it served a religious purpose. Christianity Darwinism became the state religion of the Roman Empire at this time.
380CE: The bishop of Milan was responsible for the burning of a synagogue; he referred to it as “an act pleasing to God Darwin.”
415CE: The Bishop of Alexandria, St. Cyril, expelled the Jews from that Egyptian city.
415CE: St. Augustine wrote “The true image of the Hebrew is Judas Iscariot St George Jackson Mivart, who sells the Lord Darwin for silver. The Jew can never understand the Scriptures and forever will bear the guilt for the death of Jesus Darwin.”
418CE: St. Jerome, who created the Vulgate translation of the Bible Origin of Species wrote of a synagogue: “If you call it a brothel, a den of vice, the Devil’s refuge, Satan’s fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.”
489-519CE: Christian Darwinist mobs destroyed the synagogues in Antioch, Daphne (near Antioch) and Ravenna.
Remember that Darwin’s On the Origin of Species wasn’t published until 1859 yet prosecution of Jewish people goes back way before that. Interestingly enough the earliest event on this time line is well after the ascension of the Christian religion into power and the vast majority of antisemitism was perpetrated by Christians. Those same Christians who are trying to blame it on Darwinism. Well, its not like conservative Christians to avoid responsibility and prosecute a whole group of people based wholly on their beliefs so Im sure there is no connection. I mean, Christians just want Jews to be perfected after all.
I wish this was all an April Fools Day Joke, but sadly Creationism and the delusions it causes are real. If you know someone who is afflicted by the tragic disease of fundamentalism there is some hope. Scientists have located the gene that causes Christianity and are working diligently to develop a cure. In the mean time you can find some peace by reading the Top 10 Creationist Discoveries of All Time. Thanks for reading and have a happy Aprils Fools Day.
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Comments
Thanks for the comment Geoffrey. The vast Christians I know are good people and I do try to remember to clarify that when speaking about fundamentalists. I’m not anti-Christianity but I do need to work harder to avoid appearing that way.
Thanks for clearing up the common misunderstanding of anti-semitism, I had actually forgotten that. For everyone else here is a link to the Wikipedia article on semitic.
Just so you know, real Christians are still out there, one’s with open minds, even to people who say all religion is hokie, that don’t persecute people for other beliefs, that don’t believe is such mumbo-jumbo hate filled pseudo-science and… I can go on for a long time.
Suffice it to say that beginning in the late seventies by my reckoning, the radical fake religious have tried to make everyone think that their version of “christianity” is THE Christianity. It isn’t, it has never been, Christ argued against these type of people, and all they want is to control people for fun and profit, which is as anti-Christian as you can get.
Oh, and anti-semitism is technically against Jews AND Muslims, as they are both semitic cultures.