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"Sound of Trumpet" |
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08 Apr 2006 04:18:54 PM |
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Darwinist Eugenics: American Deadly Export |
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610863/posts
Deadly Exports: Better for All the World?
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | April 7, 2006 | Charles Colson
Posted on 04/07/2006 6:25:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Yesterday, I told you the story of how Darwinism, mixed with
pseudo-science and prejudice, resulted in the forcible sterilization of
countless Americans. But the impact of the American eugenics movement
was felt far beyond the United States, with horrifying results.
In his new book, Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius tells how
America became the "guiding light" of the eugenics movement.
While the eugenicists' preferred instrument was mass sterilization,
that was not the only tool in their demonic toolkit. They also
advocated segregation of the "unfit" and even euthanasia.
If these last two sound familiar, that's because, as Bruinius tells
us, what the Germans called "racial hygiene" was based on American
efforts. While serving time in Landsberg prison in the 1920s, Adolf
Hitler read The Passing of the Great Race by American eugenicist
Madison Grant and called it "my bible."
After the Nazis came to power, they naturally looked to the United
States as a model. The Nazi sterilization law explicitly cited a
similar California statute. The Nazis, who were not restrained by what
Grant called "mistaken" and "sentimental" beliefs in "divine
law" and "the sanctity of human life," soon surpassed their
American teachers. This prompted one American eugenicist to admiringly
proclaim, "The Germans are beating us at our own game!"
It was not until the defeat of Germany and the full horror of the Nazi
eugenic program and medical experiments became widely known that
eugenics became discredited. Actually, it was the expression eugenics,
more than the idea itself, that was discredited. While overtly racist
eugenics is hopefully a thing of the past, what we might call the
"eugenic temptation" is very much alive and well.
For instance, women seeking donor insemination are practicing a kind of
eugenics. In seeking donors who meet certain physical and intellectual
criteria, they are following in the footsteps of Francis Galton,
Darwin's cousin, and the father of modern eugenics.
The more obvious contemporary example of "directing human
evolution"-what Christians call "playing God"-is
biotechnology. As philosopher Peter Augustine Lawler has written,
biotechnology is about more than "the eradication of some
particularly horrible diseases such as Alzheimer's." It's about
the reinvention of what it means to be human.
Specifically, what's being promised is a world where those who are
considered "unfit" never are born and, thus, never are a burden on
the rest of us. Whether we admit or not, we still seek the improvement
of the "race" by identifying those who carry "undesirable"
traits and preventing their births.
What we are doing to babies with Down syndrome, who have been
"targeted for elimination" by doctors, governments, and insurance
companies, is only the beginning. The more we learn about the genetic
basis of "undesirable" traits, the longer the list of those we
"target."
The only thing standing in the way of this are the same people who
stood in the way of the old eugenics: Christians. As Bruinius tells us,
it was Christians, people like Billy Sunday and William Jennings Bryan,
who led the opposition to eugenics in the United States. And in
Britain, it was G. K. Chesterton, the great writer.
If the "new eugenics" is to be stopped, it's because today's
believers in "divine law" and the "sanctity of human life" are
prepared to join this distinguished company.
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| User: "Chris Johnson" |
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| Title: Re: Darwinist Eugenics: American Deadly Export |
08 Apr 2006 05:37:29 PM |
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Sound of Trumpet wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610863/posts
Deadly Exports: Better for All the World?
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | April 7, 2006 | Charles Colson
Posted on 04/07/2006 6:25:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Yesterday, I told you the story of how Darwinism, mixed with
pseudo-science and prejudice, resulted in the forcible sterilization of
countless Americans.
And Darwinism (or as normal people call it, evolutionary theory) is
clearly the major force behind eugenics, and not merely used as an
excuse for the pre-existing prejudices.
An observation: fundies are so quick to call eugenics a product of
evolutionary theory but steadfastly deny that the Inquisition was a
logical result of Christian theology.
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| User: "Sanitys little helper" |
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| Title: Re: Darwinist Eugenics: American Deadly Export |
08 Apr 2006 09:21:51 PM |
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On 8 Apr 2006 15:37:29 -0700, Chris Johnson wrote:
Sound of Trumpet wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610863/posts
Deadly Exports: Better for All the World?
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | April 7, 2006 | Charles Colson
Posted on 04/07/2006 6:25:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Yesterday, I told you the story of how Darwinism, mixed with
pseudo-science and prejudice, resulted in the forcible sterilization of
countless Americans.
And Darwinism (or as normal people call it, evolutionary theory) is
clearly the major force behind eugenics, and not merely used as an
excuse for the pre-existing prejudices.
Genesis 11:1-9
1 Now the entire earth was of one language and uniform words. 2 And it came
to pass when they traveled from the east, that they found a valley in the
land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, "Come,
let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly"; so the bricks were to them
for stones, and the clay was to them for mortar. 4 And they said, "Come,
let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and
let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of the
entire earth". 5 And the Lord descended to see the city and the tower that
the sons of man had built. 6 And The LORD said, "Lo! [they are] one people,
and they all have one language, and this is what they have commenced to do.
Now, will it not be withheld from them, all that they have planned to do? 7
Come, let us descend and confuse their language, so that one will not
understand the language of his companion". 8 And the Lord scattered them
from there upon the face of the entire earth, and they ceased building the
city. 9 Therefore, He named it Babel, for there the Lord confused the
language of the entire earth, and from there the Lord scattered them upon
the face of the entire earth.
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D Silverman FLAHN, SMLAHN
AA #2208, HB #6
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| User: "Chris Johnson" |
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| Title: Re: Darwinist Eugenics: American Deadly Export |
09 Apr 2006 12:11:38 AM |
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Sanity's little helper wrote:
On 8 Apr 2006 15:37:29 -0700, Chris Johnson wrote:
Sound of Trumpet wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610863/posts
Deadly Exports: Better for All the World?
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^ | April 7, 2006 | Charles Colson
Posted on 04/07/2006 6:25:06 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Yesterday, I told you the story of how Darwinism, mixed with
pseudo-science and prejudice, resulted in the forcible sterilization of
countless Americans.
And Darwinism (or as normal people call it, evolutionary theory) is
clearly the major force behind eugenics, and not merely used as an
excuse for the pre-existing prejudices.
Genesis 11:1-9
That was sarcasm. It seemed clear when writing, but now it reads like
it could have been sincere.
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