Politiks As Usual: In The News 9/27/10

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Darwinism: Devilish Gnostic Myth Dressed Up As Science

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Glenn Beck Christens Charles Darwin ‘The Father Of Modern-Day Racism’

Mediaite.com:

Today’s Glenn Beck was a complex history lesson involving many intricate threads woven together by the four forces of commerce, religion, government, and science. It was also a complex, delicious-looking cake composed of four edible layers of commerce, religion, government, and science (but probably just fruit). And to explain how these layers relate, Glenn Beck explained the family history behind the Father of Modern-Day Racism, Charles Darwin.


After explaining the significance of the illustration of a slave in shackles reading “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” made famous accompanying the abolitionist poem “My Countrymen in Chains” (more about that here) as “the Lance Armstrong bracelets of the day,” he took on the history of the man who made the illustration into a mass-produced medallion, Josiah Wedgwood. His story and that story of the image were an anecdote chosen to illustrate the aforementioned four forces elemental in American history. Government and religion work together, government and religion are driven apart, and those dynamics result in things like slavery and the abolition thereof. Funny that Wedgwood was such an abolitionist, Beck continues explaining, as “his great-grandson plant[ed] the seed that leads to progressivism, eugenics.” Yes, that’s right, Wedgwood’s grandson was “Charles Darwin, the father of modern-day racism,” he concludes. 

Beck doesn’t really explain that assertion any further, since he ends the story there, but it’s a heavy enough accusation that it feels more like a cliffhanger than an intended given. If there is one planned– and there’s no reason to believe there isn’t– Beck’s history lesson on Charles Darwin promises to be fascinating if that’s the groundwork he’s laying for it. We can only hope it will be as delicious.

Kirk Cameron Is Making Immoral Liberals Angry

Everyone knows that Hollywood is dominated by liberal actors, many of whom love to use their fame to indoctrinate the public with their personal views on everything from politics to values to life in general. But it's all in the name of tolerance, of course. Yet, let a Christian, conservative actor speak his mind and suddenly there's OUTRAGE!, much less ridicule:

He's used to getting love letters and high-fives as a former teen heartthrob, but onetime Growing Pains actor Kirk Cameron isn't letting the mockery and criticism dissuade him from promoting his controversial project to dispute evolutionary theory.

"Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species," Cameron tells PEOPLE. "We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded. What we want to do is have student make an informed, educated decision before they chuck their faith."

So what is the plan that Cameron, 38, has hatched to supposedly save the souls of freshmen around the country?

He and other creationists have created thousands of editions of Charles Darwin's landmark work explaining evolutionary theory, with a 50-page introduction that picks apart aspects of Darwin's work and try to link it to everything from Nazi eugenics to the scientist's alleged "disdain for women."