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Originally Posted by colourislast
Darwinism did lead to eugenics. Nazism was an extreme eugenics program. Planned Parenthood was founded by a devout eugenicist. It then went to another eugenicist, Margaret Sanger whose original plan was to ensure retarded people and other "undesirables" never bred. (Along with allowing condoms to be sold in the U.S.) Forced sterilization and isolation of the "feebleminded." The definition of who was feebleminded and undesirable included Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, indigent, insane, poor, lazy, and anyone that Darwinism could be used to show how poor breeding was the root cause.
isolation. American Birth Control League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science and religion have always clashed. Eating from the tree of knowledge is the original sin -vs.- believing in God is a sign of ignorance. Intelligent design is the religious side giving to some of the science in nature by allowing there to be science in the discovery of how God did it. Where is science's trying to come together and using science to show their bowing to the possibility God may have a hand in how things started? "There was nothing, a singularity, then a second later there was everything." Not even budging on the possibility there was a power behind it. |
Well from that perspective one can argue that religion caused the Crusades, the Salem Witch Trials, 9/11, the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, the entire expanse of The Dark Ages, the Catholic Sex Scandal, theocracies, monarchs, etc. It should also be noted that the allies of the Germans the Japanese, saw their Emperor as the reincarnation of Amaterasu and kamikaze literally means divine wind. It is also a known fact through statistics people who identify themselves as very religious are more likely to be racists then non-religious, seculars, agnostics or atheists so the it's unlikely the eugenics issue could have happened without them playing their part. Especially in a time when atheism was frowned upon.
I think if you want to say ideologies or theories get people killed then that's your prerogative, just make sure that your not hypocritical about it like Ben Stein is.