ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler

The Anti-Defamation League ^ | August 22, 2006 | The Anti-Defamation League

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ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler

New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."

After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told ADL.

ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.

"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."

The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions."

A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens."

[stands2reason]

Thanks for your evidence of my idea that Hitler was influenced by Luther.

I wouldn't be surprised that Hitler incorporated his twisted idea of evolution into his twisted idea of Aryan Christianity, but the idea that "No Darwin, no holocaust" is flat out wrong.

And the existence of Hitler's Reich doesn't make Christianity unsound, nor does it make evolution unsound.

[Wallace T.]

It appears that Foxman and the ADL are less interested in the defamation of Jews and Judaism than in attacking conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, who tend to be the strongest supporters of Israel outside the Jewish community. Their obvious goal is to smear political conservatives. They are protecting secular humanism, not the Jewish faith, from defamation.

[stands2reason]

And how were those quotes verified?

You should be skeptical of "secret quotes". They can be as tempting to make up as Hitler's diary.

[uncbob]

This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust.

How is it trivializing it ?

[stands2reason]

See my post 61.

[stands2reason]

Those quotes are apocryphal.

[tjd1454]

Secret Conversations with Hitler, which records his vehement hatred of Christianity, consists of confidential interviews given to Richard Breiting in 1931. Breiting was a member of the German People's Party. In these conversations, Hitler reveals his aims and plans. Like another book, Hitler's Table-Talk, the notes were taken in short-hand. Unlike the Table-Talk, which Hitler knew would later be revealed, Hitler was assured that his statements would be kept secret. [Calic, p.11] Moreover, the Secret Conversations were authenticated as written solely by Breiting (unlike the editing by Bormann).

Hitler's Secret Conversations is listed as a source by Encyclopedia Brittanica for Hitler's writings and speeches:

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-215448

Hitler's Secret Conversation was used as a source by a History Channel documentary about Hitler:

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/search/search.php?searchtext=hitler&refinetext=&search_page=3&themes=&cts=&enc=22201

The book is used as a source for research about Hitler in academic publications such as the Institute for Historical Review:

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:BzQTJ1LA-uEJ:www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p-93_Rollins.html+hitler%27s+secret+conversations&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

[MarkL]

I wonder how Abe would feel about mentioning planned parenthood and Hitler, given that the founder of PP was a strong proponent of eugenics...

Mark

[orionblamblam]

> the existence of Hitler's Reich doesn't make Christianity unsound, nor does it make evolution unsound.

Correct on both counts.

[Physicist]

Those quotes are apocryphal.

Oh, like that's going to stop anybody from doing the Lord's Work!

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."<<<

No, it was the founders of this nation that "turned the U.S. into a Christian nation". It was communists and false "Jews", like Foxman, that have turned this nation from a God-fearing, moral nation into another Sodom and Gomorrah.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Evangelical nutcases claiming Darwin is responsible for Hitler.<<<

I see the anti-Christian bigots are out in full force.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Must be Godwin's law for crockumentaries.<<<

I see the anti-Christian bigots are out in full force.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Any lie is permissible if it saves souls sells books (and DVDs too)!<<<

Foxman has a book and a DVD?

[L98Fiero]

"The concept of the book is ridiculous. Did Hitler use Darwin's theory? Absolutely! Hitler stole what ever was around that fit his agenda, that does not mean the originators caused Hitler."

Well put.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>any link to nazis is a bastardized interpretation of evolution.<<<

As evolution is a bastardized interpretation of science.

[Wallace T.]

Nazism was not a comprehensive worldview as is Marxism. It borrowed ideas from various sources and even smuggled in class warfare concepts from Marxism, which they regarded as Jewish. After all, the very name, Nazi, is an abbreviation for National Socialist. By and large, Nazis did believe in Darwin-inspired theories of natural selection. They also believed in the value of efficient assembly lines. However, their belief in industrial efficiency did not make them disciples of Frederick Taylor or Henry Ford.

Biblical Christianity is a comprehensive worldview as well, which Darwinian evolution is not. Because Hitler admired the anti-Semitic rants of Martin Luther's declining years or the altruism of many Christian leaders does not make Hitler a Christian. Nor does it make Nazism any more Christian than the borrowing of class warfare themes made the ideology Marxist.

[Suzy Quzy]

Dr. Kennedy is NOt a nutcase. Cool your anti-Christian crap.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>There is no question that Christianity had a powerful influence on Nazi thinking as well.<<<

That is a lie spread by the forces of anti-Christ, like you and your leftist buddies.

[Suzy Quzy]

You can cool your anti-Christian crap also.