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Why Did Some Churches Promote Eugenics?

Posted in Book Commentary on October 25, 2009| 4 Comments »

Yesterday I introduced Amy Laura Hall’s essay on how some churches actively participated in the eugenics movement before World War II.  It is bad enough when churches and their leaders are silent about evil practices, but promoting eugenics takes the church, and thus the name of Jesus, to sickening depths.

And it begs the question:  why?  How could this happen? (more…)

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The Church’s Role in the Eugenics Movement

Posted in Book Commentary on October 24, 2009| 2 Comments »

The extraordinary evil of the eugenics movement in the United States before World War II is well known and documented.  But I did not know the complicity of some churches with that movement until reading Amy Laura Hall’s excellent article, “To Form a More Perfect Union: Mainline Protestantism and the Popularization of Eugenics.”

Quoting from church leaders’ own writings and sermons, she presents a horrifying view of how certain churches actively worked to promote the viewpoint that some people should be eliminated.  There is little subtlety in their arguments. (more…)

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When ‘Composite’ Means Deception

Posted in Book Commentary, tagged , , on September 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »

In “Arguing about Genetics and Disability,” Tom Shakespear asserts he is showing two sides of an argument, and that his own views are a “composite of both characters’ positions.”  He is either deceiving himself, or trying to deceive us, because there is no real argument presented. (more…)

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