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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

Interesting meme

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Religion doesn't hurt anyone if you accept everyone's beliefs and don't go too far with your religion

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Classic American perspective in the comments.

You know, a lot of regions have religions that aren't cults. Also tv mega churches are not common in the old world.

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 11 months ago (19 children)

I recently visited reddit and was horrified to see how many people there say “Lol he believes in sky dady, his opinions are worthless, ban all religion” and even some extreme comments like “All christians are pedoes” and I am seeing this rising slowly on lemmy as well

Any sort of extremism is bad, whether that’s religious, political or atheistic(?), and thats what we should be fighting, banning hijabs is not gonna do any good

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[+] [email protected] -28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (23 children)

Guess the name of this Darwinist extremist! (hint: he was fundamental in establishing Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th)

"In the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly or less determined succumb, while the struggle of the males for the female grants the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest. And struggle is always a means for improving a species' health and power of resistance and, therefore, a cause of its higher evolution."

I'm sure many of you will find a clever way to justify his murder of eleven million Jews and other "weak" people, and dragging half of the world into the deadliest conflict of all time, all because of his extreme application of Darwinian evolution theory.

Yes. It's Adolf Hitler.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not just Hitler, the whole of the Nazi party and their public propaganda was based on extreme Darwinism.

An important official Nazi Party publication, Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, edited by Alfred Rosenberg, occasionally featured articles promoting evolution. In a 1935 article Heinz Brücher praised German biologist Ernst Haeckel for paving the way for the Nazi regime. In addition to mentioning Haeckel's advocacy of eugenics and euthanasia, Brücher highlighted Haeckel's role in promoting human evolution. Brücher reminded his readers that Haeckel's view of human evolution led him to reject human equality and socialism. In 1941 Brücher published another article in Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte on evolution through natural selection. Several times he stressed that the principles of evolution were just as valid for humans as for other orgarisms. He closed the essay by explaining the practical application of evolutionary theory:

The hereditary health of the German Volk and of the Nordic-Germanic race that unites it must under all circumstances remain intact. Through an appropriate complianmce with the laws of nature, through selection and planned racial care it can even be increased. The racial superiority achieved thereby secures for our Volk in the harsh struggle for existence an advantage, which will make us unconquerable.

In Brücher's view human evolution is an essential ingredient of racial ideology, not a hindrance to it. In 1936 Heberer launched an attack on antievolutionists in Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte. He praised Haeckel and stressed the affinities of Darwinism and human evolution with Nazi ideology.

The history is really quite fascinating and it's rarely taught in your state-mandated evolutionary biology classes!

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