4/7/2005
Why Evolution breeds monsters like Hitler, Trotsky and Stalin
Why Evolution breeds monsters like Hitler, Trotsky and Stalin
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) endorsed a program in Germany to breed a superior race.
The scheme was based on a horrific evolutionary theory called “eugenics” that was founded by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton. The idea of eugenics was to improve the human race using principles promoted in the theory of evolution.
The idea was simple: partition the human race into two groups, the “fit” and the “unfit.” Eugenics seemed to be a way to make sure that the “fit” had children and the “unfit” did not. In Germany, the leaders of the eugenics movement got monstrous laws enacted that allowed sterilization of people regarded as “unfit,” and restriction of immigrants who were supposedly “biologically inferior.” (The United States and other countries enacted similar laws, but the Nazis took it to the extreme when Jews, blacks, and others were ruthlessly murdered to prop up the theory.)
The German people were being seduced to accept that they could be the “master race” by exterminating the “unfit.” If evolution was right, they reasoned, and “survival of the fittest” was merely a positive, evolutionary process, then what could be wrong with hastening the deaths of the “unfit”?
Eugenics could only become popular because the theory of evolution seemed to have quashed the need for the sovereign Creator, God, who had given humankind absolute moral laws. When you do away with moral laws, outrageous racism and crimes like compulsory sterilization, Hitler’s death camps, and mass murder on a maniacal scale, can no longer be said to be evil.
Trotsky … another monster brainwashed by evolution
Russian communist leader Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a fanatical supporter of Marxism and Darwinism. In the Russian Civil War of 1918–20, he used the force of the Red Army to stamp out whoever he decided were enemies of the Soviet State. He confiscated food from peasants, brutalized the Ukrainian army of insurgent peasants, and killed its guerrilla leader, N. I. Makhno. He inflicted torture and violence against Christians, mercilessly trashed churches, and led the Society of the Godless to get rid of religion.
Trotsky was mesmerized by Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. He said: “Darwin stood for me like a mightly doorkeeper at the entrance to the temple of the universe.” He said that Darwin’s ideas “intoxicated” him. And he could not understand in the slightest how belief in God could find room in the same head as belief in Darwin’s ideas.
Like Hitler, Trotsky was a tyrant who saw Darwin’s theory of evolution as scientific justification for dismissing God’s moral laws. He clearly saw that the two ideas, God and evolution, were totally incompatible. His atrocities were consistent with this belief, for when you do away with the idea of the God who created you and who has given instructions for the right way to live, there is no longer a reason to avoid despicably violent crimes. Even if this means murdering everyone who disagrees with you.
As a result, Trotsky’s Marxist Red Army ruthlessly murdered 0ver 100,000,000 Christians during the period 1917-1945.
World’s worst mass-murderer was influenced by Darwin at 19
Soviet tyrants and mass murderers Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky were strongly influenced by Charles Darwin.
Russian dictator and revolutionist, Joseph Stalin (1879–1953), was studying at Tiflis Theological Seminary when he started to read the works of Charles Darwin. One of his friends later said in a book that when Stalin read Darwin he became an atheist. At the age of 19, Stalin was expelled from the theological seminary because of his revolutionary connections.
Stalin is regarded as the worst mass-murderer the world has ever seen. With God out of his way after embracing Darwin’s evolutionary ideas, Stalin had no restrictions of conscience or morals. He set up a terrorist police State, persecuted and murdered innocent communists, and instituted trials in which most surviving Bolshevik leaders were found guilty of treachery and were executed. He encouraged “Stalinist adoration,” which included naming cities after him (such as Stalingrad, Staliniri, and Stalinogorsk), and advocated homage given to him in virtually all public speeches and in print. He even murdered Leon Trotsky.
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” ideas powerfully shaped Stalin’s approach to society. Oppression, atheism, self-glorification, and the blood of his many innocent victims flowed from Stalin’s rejection of his Creator after reading and believing Darwin’s evolutionary theories.
And the most tragic aspect of all this? That while Stalin, Trotsky, and Hitler were turning their backs on their Creator, they were building their racist and murderous philosophies on a lie.
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April 7th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
Cao this is an awesome post. Kind of scary to think today’s left really places Hitler and company up on such a high throne.
April 7th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
And yet another awesome post! You are smokin today girl!
April 7th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
Good points, but I can’t say I agree wholeheartedly. We can look at the 9/11 hijackers and say “Well, they certainly didn’t believe in evolution.”
I think the problem is less Darwinism than it is the non-belief in an all-powerful Deity. The Communists were atheists, the Nazis were Paganesque. If one thinks that they will not be punished for their horrendous acts, then of course they will do them. I could elaborate more, but I have class at 5.
April 7th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
What do hijackers have to do with this?
Try to focus. We’re camparing regimes who murdered hundreds of thousands of people because of Godless socialism. Terrorism is another subject, although they expect the socialists to help their cause.
April 7th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Babaganoosh did you forget to take YOUR meds today? LOL. What do hijackers have to do with Stalin or Hitler? Except that they were all insane? They all had a goal to kill many innocent people…
April 7th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I think the Babaganoosh was alluding to the fact that Stalin, Hitler, et al were certainly terrorists of a sort, and that the radical jihadi Islamisists are also of the “my way or else” mindset.
As he said, it was a quick comment. *shrug* I would certainly put the hijackers in the same class of those who want to deny freedom to people who don’t share their worldview.
At any rate, I would *also* reply to Babganoosh (and I’m sure he knows this) that the jihadis DO believe in an all-powerful deity. It’s just a false one, untempered by the love, justice, mercy, and holiness of the True God.
Just my $0.02.(Or has inflation made it $0.25? LOL)
– R’cat
April 7th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
ok, but the subject was how the theory of evolution fueled the atrocities committed by these three and drew parallels there.
April 7th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
True - I just recently had a brief chat with the Baba, and he seemed OK, so I didn’t want him to go undefended
** Hey, I got my ego-boost this morning, I’m feeling nice to everybody!
Well, except for [he whose name will be purged], of course, LOL
April 7th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
You forgot to include GW Bush in this list. If it’s truly evolution he comes after these monsters. He killed thousands of inocent people, and he’s sure to kill more in the next three years.
Great post!
April 8th, 2005 at 4:41 am
Bush is not a Stalinist. He’s a Christian, which none of these are. Creationism and Evolution don’t mix. But Evolution is what is being taught by the minions of the NEA and the ACLU supports it being taught in our schools. Wake up, will ya? If you’re going to accuse Bush of something, make it something that makes sense.
It’s Marxists (people who are touting that line) that usually make that comparison, but what facts do you have to back it up?
You’re following Engels to a ‘”t”
ENGELS ADVOCATED CONTEMPT AND RIDICULE IN ARGUMENT
Engels to Eduard Bernstein, 12 March 1881: “The paper must carry this fresh air to Germany, and the best way to do that is to treat the opponent with contempt and ridicule.”
April 8th, 2005 at 5:20 am
HI DrForBush! Good to see you here.
I guess we just disagree on most things. President Bush is not a stalinist, and his efforts are no where in the same league as Stalin. Stop comparing them.
April 8th, 2005 at 5:53 am
Dr, either you are completely blind, or wilfully and abysmally ignorant.
Stalin and Hitler and their like all took away rights from people. Bush, on the other hand, fights to protect our country, and to give freedom to others.
In case you haven’t noticed, Iraq this week has chosen the leaders of their government, just a little over 2 months since their elections. By mid to late August, they will have written and ratified their own constitution. Shias, Sunnis, Kurds… are working together peacefully!
Three years ago, they had a tyrant similar to Stalin and Hitler ruling over them, ignoring the rule of law, committing murder - and praising his sons in their reign of terror and torture.
Don’t even think of continuing this idiocy of claiming that Bush is like Hitler and Stalin, you cretin.
April 8th, 2005 at 5:54 am
Whups, a little problem with html formatting…. Sorry, Cao!
April 8th, 2005 at 6:16 am
Looks fine to me, R’cat.
April 8th, 2005 at 6:19 am
I meant to put “freedom to others” in strong, not the rest
Oh well, I guess it still works.
Hey, friend! Good morning!
April 8th, 2005 at 9:02 am
“dr” Forbush, you’re really showing your raw hatred here. Based on your comment, if I create a list of foods I don’t like, you’d want me to include Bush. And if I made a list of construction accidents, you’d ask Bush to be on that list, too.
The post was about how evolution affected various monsters of the past. Can you explain how the evolution religion made Bush “killed thousands of inocent [sic] people?”
Can you describe where Bush mentions his beliefs in eugenics and where he’s tried to implement it by name?
April 8th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
I believe it was made as some sort of jest. My point was that Cao’s post seems to imply that a belief in evolution helps to turn people into mass murderers, whereas I was saying that mass murderers don’t have to believe in evolution to be well - mass murderers. I can understand it was lost in translation.
April 8th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Interesting, your sense of ‘humor’. Socialism is Godless, evolution is godless and those are the circumstances under which mass murder occur. If you look at all of those–they had nothing to do with believers in God, rather, the lack thereof. But they had absolutely everything to do with the socialist ideology and the point that elitists drive it…the people who believe they should make the decisions about who should live and who should die, and they’re better than the rest of us, so they’re entitled to that power over everyone else.
More to come on that.