A Doctor’s House of Horrors and Social Darwinism
One of the things I enjoy about World Magazine are the reviews. Movies, music and books are reviewed in each issue and while I cannot possibly read all the books reviewed the reviews do give me an idea of what’s new and what might I want to read.
Sometimes the reviews just provoke thought. Such was the case with Marvin Olasky’s (World’s Editor in Chief) Darwin and Beyond a review of Paul Johnson’s; A Portrait of Genius, a biography.
Olasky writes; [Darwin was a man] who brilliantly observed micro evolution within species of plants and animals, but reached too far by theorizing macro-evolution that he had not witnessed. And then parenthetically, (Darwin then went too far in theorizing about man-and by doing so provided fodder for racists and anti-Semites.)
Darwin observes micro evolution and makes a significant contribution to science. (changes within a “kind” to use the words of Genesis)
Darwin extrapolates micro evolution to macro evolution. (changes where one kind evolves into another kind such as monkeys to man)
Fans of Darwin extrapolate survival of the fittest to argue for the elimination of certain types of people. (Hitler and the Nazis but certainly not limited to them.)

The result of social Darwinism and the Final Solution The Online Free Dictionary defines Social Darwinism like this:
What is social Darwinism? Definitions differ and some would say that social Darwinism has been discredited usually because of its connection to the Nazi’s but ironically not because of its connection to Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood. Here is an online definition of social Darwinism that gives the reader that basic idea.

Sanger is a heroine to pro-abortion people. They either ignore or brush under the rug her fondness for eugenics and the elimination of the “unfit.” Here’s a quote from one of her writings: It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stoop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them.
Gosnell apparently botched more than a few late-term abortions. His victims were primarily minorities and ironically he gave white women a little better care. Some would call that racist. Gosnell had no problem at all making a decision of death, deciding who was unfit to live. Whatever his reasons that is eugenics and social Darwinism applied to the most helpless.
Some pro-abortion activists have been rightly horrified by Gosnell. Why they are horrified can be a variable and have nothing to do with understanding that a fetus is life, regardless of term.
Pro-abortion people do not like being compared to Nazis and I don’t blame them. What I would hope however is that they come to realize by being “for” abortion and the so-called right to choose is akin to granting someone the right to choose who is fit to live and who is not.
We should not be surprised to find other Gosnell’s.
You might be an Extremist if…
April 9, 2013
Bruce Christianity, Islam, News and Commentary, politcs and government Evangelicalism, extremists, United States Army Reserve Leave a comment
You might be an extremist if the people who train US Army Reserves have anything to say about it. Check out the poster.
Hmmm
At the top of the list are evangelical Christians. That would be me but the most extreme thing I’ve done lately is pay my taxes to the Federal Government with a frown on my face since I was pretty sure a lot of that money would be wasted.
I guess that makes me guilty of anti-government thoughts but extreme, gee whiz.
If you look carefully you’ll see that Catholics made the list, all of them I guess. Evangelicals are a sub-set of Protestants and apparently were singled out as a sub-set. Not so with Catholics and all of them are labeled as extremists. To be fair the author of this poster probably meant that only Catholics who do not like Obama are extremists. Still, he should have been a bit more careful since the Catholics who did vote for Obama might misinterpret the word “extremist” for one who DID vote for Obama. I would.
Also on the list are “Fundamentalist Mormons.” I’m not sure what a Fundamentalist Mormon is but the author probably means Glen Beck because he thinks bad thoughts about Marxism, Communism and Socialism and says bad things about the government and the government’s collectivist agenda.
Ultra-orthodox Jews also made the list. I’m not an expert on modern Judaism but I’m guessing ultra-orthodox roughly translates to Jews who are not American liberals.
What’s fascinating about this list is the company these groups keep on the list. There are quite a few genuinely scary groups on that list, terrorists, racists, murderers, Islamic fascists and the like.
To be fair the Army withdrew the poster from the training saying that whoever made it was not an expert. No kidding. Kind of raises the issue on how the person got the job in the first place.
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