Creation Moment 10/21/2023 - Legacy of Darwin & Redbeard

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Galatians 5:19-25

"Don’t fall for the artificial distinction of “far left” and “far right” that would classify the likes of Redbeard and his modern disciples at one or other end of a political spectrum. The proper distinctions are between Christ or Satan, Creation vs Evolution.

Darwin’s “tree of life” is really the tree of death. Its poisonous fruits are still ripening and tempting the unwary.

I urge people to read chapter 8 of Richard Weikart’s 2022 book, Darwinian Racism. The author, a history professor at UC Stanislaus fluent in German, is an expert on German political thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was shocked when he looked at one of

the favorite books of the modern White Nationalists, Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard, written in 1896. “Redbeard’s book is the most incendiary piece of social Darwinist literature that I have ever read,” says Weikart, “which is saying a lot, since I am an expert on the history of social Darwinism. Perhaps that is why the author used a pseudonym” (p. 133). 

Redbeard’s book was long forgotten but was picked up and promoted by Anton Levay, founder of the Church of Satan. In more recent years, leading White Nationalist organizations have promoted this book as essentially their bible. Look at the Darwinian mindset that motivated Redbeard’s thinking. Weikart writes,


In the pages of Might Is Right, Redbeard encouraged readers to grasp for power in order to triumph in the merciless Darwinian struggle for existence among unequal humans. 

---From the very first pages, Redbeard viciously and relentlessly

attacked Christianity—calling Jesus “the true prince of Evil”—and spurned Christian morality, such as loving others, showing compassion, and helping the weak. 

Rather, Redbeard insisted, “In actual operation Nature is cruel and merciless to men, as to all other beings…. We must be, like nature, hard, cruel, relentless.” 

---He dismissed with contempt the US Declaration of Independence’s dictum that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights,” because, he claimed, the Creator it referred to is a “mythical airy being.”

Redbeard’s Darwinist foundation led to the purpose of his incendiary book: “And it is proposed to prove in this book, that strife, competition, rivalry, and the wholesale destruction of feeble types of men is not only natural, but highly necessary.” 

---This was “Darwin’s law,” he said: the struggle for existence is the “only yardstick for morality” in his twisted view. In stark contrast to the Beautitudes of Jesus, which exalted the humble, merciful and poor in spirit, Redbeard preached: “Cursed are the Unfit for they shall be righteously exterminated.” CEH