wt 7/1/11: Darwin a racist

ParadiseCircus

Where do these people get off? As if the old testament God did not command his followers to commit genocide...

No Room For George

I never particulary cared for the mud people either. So Darwin gets two thumbs up from me!

OUTLAW

The WBT$ used to Teach..

Black Folks would turn White in the New System..

Watchtower Bigot and Dumb Ass Society..

........................OUTLAW

Intel

Yes! God likes Americans and Brits and Germans. The Proclaimers book says that Hitler probably invaded Europe because "there were the highest concentrations of annointed JWs living".

Since he choose to setup HQ in USA, it is a fact that the first thousands of annointed where white, middle-upper class, male americans, followed by brits and germans. So, there you have it.

Aahhh, since a religion founded and started in the US, this delayed the acceptance of the "true religion" in Asian, African and Arabic countries (harder to swallow, preaching started relatively late in some of these countries) > survival chance: lower participation of vietnamese as rulers in heaven: very low.

There you have it, God is a white, male, bearded man that loves Apple pie....

unshackled

Ah, more typical creationist quote mining. They probably stole this from Richard Weikart's book: From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany, where he used the same quote to try connect Nazism with the theory of evolution.

The context of the full quote is different, of course. First, when Darwin used the term "race" he meant "varieties"…not human races. In the Origin of Species he would refer to "varieties" of cabbage as races.

Here is the full quote, with what the WT actually used highlighted:

"The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies—between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridae between the elephant, and in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna, and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."

Just more utter BS and propaganda...throwing more shit on Darwin: "Look! He was a racist too!"

Bastards.

snowbird

Since he choose to setup HQ in USA, it is a fact that the first thousands of annointed where white, middle-upper class, male americans, followed by brits and germans. So, there you have it.

Your assessment is so spot-on - this used to bug the daylight out of me.

Syl

Intel

I've had many years close contact to different missionaries in assignments all over the world. And I noticed that many of them said, that people were "lovely, warm hearted, etc." but that it was a big hurdle to accept that the "true religion" was basically american and had "corporation taste" all over it...they took long, long hard conversations to hammer that into these poor minds.

I asked one of these missionaries: "What if Jehovah had choosen Saudi Arabia as the country to start this thing. How would Americans and Europeans accept a guy saying that gods true organization is in Saudi Arabia...." He laughed and said that it was divine direction to setup foot in Brooklyn.....lol

FatFreek 2005

The following is from Freeminds.org. It indicates that far after (35-45 years) Darwin's death in 1882, racism within Watchtower writings were not exactly what they'd now like to admit.

The subject of race is not a topic the Watchtower has spent an enormous amount of time discussing. Nonetheless, a large number of official statements in their publications clearly reflect their racist attitudes. For example, an October 15, 1919, Golden Age article about prohibition (p. 44) stated, "from a criminal viewpoint the desirability of sobering the southern negro speaks volumes for national prohibition." Another article refers to Orientals as "coolies" who were "cutthroats and murderers" (Golden Age, March 10, 1926, p. 374). Many articles, though, are much more direct. One states that the British Empire nations are all ruled by Whites, whom the Watchtower describes as having "superior mental, moral, or physical force" and that this superiority is disappearing because the "powers of the colored races are expanding" (May 5, 1926:483). A Golden Agearticle vehemently condemned a book sympathetic to blacks, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which it called "the work of Satan" and they even once stated that the Spaniards were a "backward" race (Bolling, 1927:141). The racism is also obvious in statements such as "careful observations in a London school showed that children enjoyed the heartiest laughs, not from slapstick comedies, but from [such activities as] ... watching a negro miner enjoying a square meal" (Golden Age, 1928:684).

EntirelyPossible

Sauce for the goose is also good for the gander. If they want to point to 150 year old writings, they should face up to their own past about black men parying and becoming white and having segregated meetings.

wt 7/1/11: Darwin a racist

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