re: #91 Charles

Charles, perhaps you are right about Mr. Klinghoffer’s anti-evolutionary stance. He did say in his JPost article:

Meanwhile, Jewish groups continue to pillory the Christian churches for their alleged guilt in fomenting the Holocaust. That’s despite the fact that Hitler himself clearly dismissed as ineffective any fancied strategy to try to whip up Germans with appeals to punish the Christ-killers. In Mein Kampf, an influential best-seller, he relied on the language of Darwinian biology to declare a race war against the Jews.

But isn’t he right? It was Hitler’s devotion to the ideology of social Darwinism, the science of eugenics, and his goal of attaining a master race which lead to the Holocaust. Wasn’t it Pope Pius XII through his belief in God’s love for all humanity which lead to the rescue of Jews from gas chambers in Europe. Here is an excerpt from his bio from the Jewish Virtual Library:

Zolli devoted an entire chapter in his memoirs to the German occupation of Rome and praised the Pope’s leadership: “… The people of Rome loathed the Nazis and had intense pity for the Jews. They willingly assisted in the evacuation of the Jewish population into remote villages, where they were concealed and protected by Christian families. Christian families in the heart of Rome accepted Jews. There was money in the treasury for the support of destitute refugees thus hidden. The Holy Father sent by hand a letter to the bishops instructing them to lift the enclosure from convents and monasteries, so that they could become refuges for the Jews. I know of one convent where the Sisters slept in the basement, giving up their beds to Jewish refugees. In face of this charity, the fate of so many of the persecuted is especially tragic.”

This is perhaps the reason why Hitler hated Christians so much:

The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that is left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.

The world is a little more complex than the dualistic battle between the faithful and the scientifically inductive as you can just as easily link the latter to evil motives and defamed pre-Vatican II traditionalists to good deeds and heroism.