randman writes:
Frankly, it's bizarre to me how you could be confused. The NAZIs did believe in social darwinism and eugenics, and adopted a race-based ideology/pseudo-religion. Darwinism was an inspiration for that sort of thinking although the master race stuff predated Darwin. They used Darwin though to claim scientific merit for their ideas.
True enough--and they used Christianity to claim religious merit for their policies and ideas, even though Hitler scorned that religion in private.
Weren't the overwhelming majority of Nazi-era Germans Christians? Of cousre, they may not have been True Christians? Still, other than a small minority of Jews, I'm not aware of any other religion represented there at that time.
Perhaps a majority of them were also Social Darwinists--but, in that case, they weren't true Darwinists, were they?
Nazi Germany doesn't prove anything about Darwin, evolution, Christ, or Christianity. It does prove something foundational about human beings.
"Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
-Sir Toby Belch,
Twelfth Night
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