Unfortunately for those who seek to hide the truth, we can all now check up on assertions made. Here is a quote from evolution news.org:"In Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Alan Bullock writes: "The basis of Hitler's political beliefs was a crude Darwinism." What Hitler found objectionable about Christianity was its rejection of the conclusions that followed from Darwin's theory: "Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest." Joachim C. Fest, in Hitler, describes how the Nazi tyrant "extract[ed] the elements of his world view" from various influences including "popular treatments of Darwinism." Hitler, like lots of other Europeans and Americans of his day, saw Darwinism as offering a total picture of social reality. In his biography, Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris, Ian Kershaw explains that "crude social-Darwinism" gave Hitler "his entire political 'world-view.'" John Toland's Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, finally, says this of Hitler's "Second Book" (1928), never published in his lifetime: "An essential of Hitler's conclusions in this book was the conviction drawn from Darwin that might makes right."
And Hitler made the same mistake you, and most creationists make: that there's some sort of "social Darwinism" philosophy that actually exists. All it is, is an attempt by those who reject evolution to try to paint it in a bad light. The problem is, is that those who espouse such a thing as social Darwinism fail to understand it's science in it's totality. So, when you can explain how and why "social Darwinism" has anything to do with evolution, then you can make the connection. Until then, no dice.
As to what is a true Christian, the Bible is the authority, and I believe it plainly teaches that not all or even a majority of those claiming to be Christians really are such. (Matthew 7:13,14) As Jesus himself stated:"Not everyone saying to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the Kingdom of the heavens, but only the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name? And then I will declare to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!"(Matthew 7:21-23) Jesus also said "You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you." (John 15:14) the "no true Scotsman" assertion is fallacious and misleading.
I'm not going to get into a polemical debate about how or who or what determines who is a "true Christian." But I think it's funny that many Christians would say the same about you. And use the bible to prove it. So the "no true Scotsman" fallacy stands.
Of course, let me turn it around. No one who understands the actual science of evolution would even dare to admit to such a thing as the "social Darwinism" philosophy. The plus side of my statement is that it has science to back it, instead of metaphysical speculation, which is all you can seem to assert.
Now, back on page 3 of this thread, I asked you several questions in several posts that you have yet to answer. So I'll repost them all here for ease:
1. How is teaching science as science "totalitarian control"? Are we going to start teaching religious dogma in science classes now just because some people are getting offended that religious mythology and superstition isn't being taught as scientific truth?
2. If we teach Christian versions of creationism in science classes, why not Hindu? Why not Islamic? Why not any of the other 200 + religious creation myths?
3. If we start teaching religious creation myths as science, why stop there? Why not start teaching kids that germs don't cause disease, but god does when you do wrong? Or, gravity isn't what keeps things down, it's god? Or, the earth doesn't float in space supported by nothing, but by the gods? Where does it stop?
4. If evolution is so wrong, how has it been right in the advances in medicine that has occurred due to our knowledge of evolution?
These are not rhetorical, please answer them, if you're able.
